Anything But Toto

Three album reviews for the price of one?! In this economy?! Join Bianca and Julian as they dive into the late-summer post-Brat wave of major album releases: Beabadoobee’s This is How Tomorrow Moves, Clairo’s Charm, and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet. By examining these three albums, B and J explore the differences between “journey albums” and “vibe albums,” examining how each approach can either captivate listeners or fall flat. Listen to find out which is which! 

But that’s just the start. This episode also covers a wide range of hot topics, including:

- Maxxxine

- The It Ends With Us and Blake Lively controversies

- The Trump assassination attempt

- Taylor Swift and the Vienna terror plot

- Biden and Harris

- Katy Perry’s “Woman’s World”

- Chappell Roan’s warning to fans

- Oasis’ reunion

- The Dare

- Addison Rae’s “Diet Pepsi”

- Zane Lowe

- Longlegs

- Martin Scorsese

- Girls

- The Bear

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It's the 10th episode of Anything But Toto (woo!) and things are about to get a little bratty. Join Bianca and Julian as they dive deep into the album of the summer, Charli XCX's "Brat." They dissect the album's production, central concept, and themes, leading to an in depth conversation about anxiety and depersonalization, parenthood, 2000s nostalgia, grief, and passive aggressive friendships. Bookending Bianca and Julian's album review are these additional topics: 

• Challengers, Saltburn, and the 2000s aesthetic

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After waxing poetic about Taylor Swift for 5 hours, followed by a brief break, Bianca and Julian are back with another action packed episode, covering several topics:

In this week's episode, Bianca and Julian dive deep into Taylor Swift's 11th studio (and first double!) album, "The Tortured Poets Department" ("The Anthology" edition). In this rant/review, they discuss quantity vs. quality, musical vs. lyrical analysis, Jack Antonoff's production, AI and "demo-itis," our "Guilty as Sin?" music video, and the influence of The 1975. Is this Taylor at her very best? Listen to find out! 

Also discussed are:

- Jojo Siwa's "Karma"

- The new "Lennon/McCartney" song

- OJ

- Sabrina Carpenter

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Join Bianca and Julian as they discuss:

- Their favourite movie soundtracks

- The Diddy allegations

- The "Quiet on the Set" and J.Lo documentaries

- The media frenzy surrounding "Kate Middleton's disappearance"

- The best music from "fake artists" in movies

- The GOATs Adam Schlesinger and Mike Viola

- Addison Rae's debut EP, "AR" 

- Trying to survive hilarious jazz-poetry performances

They also answer your emails and read your hot takes! If you'd like to write into the show, email Bianca and Julian at [email protected]

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In this week's episode, Bianca and Julian discuss:

- Recent 007 casting rumours

- Their issues with Oppenheimer and Barbie

- Julian's childhood dream of owning a wax museum

- 17-year-old Bianca's stealthy attempts to meet teen idols

- Retro revival music (The Lemon Twigs vs. Greta Van Fleet)

- Hanging out with the Beach Boys

and much much more!

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Bianca and Julian return from their two year sabbatical with a brand new format! In their first episode as an unedited pop culture and current events podcast, they discuss Swiftmania, Vanderpump Rules, Love is Blind, awards season, the recently announced Beatle biopics, and their proposal. 

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After a busy few months, Bianca and Julian are back with a new type of episode for a new year. In lieu of their *award winning* album reviews, they provide a detailed analysis of their choices for ten perfect pop songs. What is a pop song? What makes one perfect? What in god's name is a "nasty chord"? Join Bianca and Julian as they answer these questions and more, analyze the first five songs on their list (part two is already in the works), and sing.... with mixed results. What made your list of perfect pop songs? Let us know at [email protected] 

In this episode, the impossible happens… Bianca and Julian discuss Toto. “But why?!,” you might ask. Well, on his latest studio album, John Mayer rides the waves of The Search for Everything on a luxury yacht, offering a collection of unrequited love songs coloured in shades of teal. Full of eighties drum machines, synthesizers, and production techniques, Sob Rock is an homage to the popular music style commonly called “yacht rock.” The nature of this project creates a dilemma for Bianca and Julian, who are simultaneously two of the biggest critics of eighties music and two of the staunchest supporters of John Mayer. The result is a discussion that twists and turns, referring to everything and everyone from Toto to The Warriors, Katy Perry to abandoned Zellers warehouses, and obscure George Harrison solo records to insurance company advertisements. What is an “anti-chorus”? Does Julian's fountain pen analogy go on for too long? Did John Mayer predict COVID? Tune in to find out!