Culture Hang

Merry Christmas from your gals at Culture Hang! To get into the festive spirit we bring you the Christmas Disco of your primary school days! We discuss our top five Christmas songs (surprisingly, some are ranked the same for both of us!), guess which singer sang the Christmas song from the lyric Indie and Pop edition, what whacky celebrity traditions are out there. To end we top it off with playing True or False with terrible Christmas film plots! We hope everyone has a wonderful time despite the madness of the year! We love you!xoxo

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Get ready for A LOT of tangets, chaos and fast talking this week! We discuss some celebrity feuds that the world has forgotten about. Holly looks back to Alec Baldwin vs American Airlines, Avril Lavigne vs Mark Zuckerberg (what kind of music does he listens to??) and Azealia Banks vs Russell Crowe. Hannah takes us through the incredible detective work of Colleen Rooney during Wagatha Christie! We also talk Florence Given being called out by Chidera Eggure, body positivity re: Alyssa Violet, Trisha Paytas walking out of her podcast (again), being anti-Elon Musk and Russell Crowe in Les Mis.

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Feminist Theory Starter Book List: 

Chidera Eggure, What a Time to be Alone & How to Get Over a Boy

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminist

bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought & Intersectionality 

Angela Davis, Women, Race & Class and Women, Culture, Politics

Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

Links: 

https://gal-dem.com/influencer-battle-slumflower-florence-given-book-publishing-industry-wins/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tayloraowens/forgotten-celebrity-feuds-2010s

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/23/avril-lavigne-attacks-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-nickelback

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/17/azealia-banks-russell-crowe-hotel-altercation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-55020573

The Kardashians are back and more problematic than ever! This week we cover ALL the Kardashian controversies during the time of Miss Rona. Hannah covers March through to July as the old drama between Kim and Taylor Swift is reignited, Kourtney and Kim's drama gets physical and Kylie forgets the pandemic is happening. Holly takes us from August right through to the present delving into Kim's pregnancy shapewear (yikes), Kim and Kendall's numerous birthday parties and the family's Thanksgiving celebrations. We also HAD to discuss Rita Ora's (lockdown breaking) birthday party and our need for Billie Eilish to be happy, healthy and thriving.

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Links:

Vanity Fair 'Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Fourth Year | Vanity Fair'

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elliewoodward/kardashians-killed-their-own-show

https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/kendall-jenner-halloween-birthday-party.html

Buzzfeed writers: Ellie Woodward, Ben Henry, Stephan LaConte, Ryan Schocket, Marissa G. Muller, Natasha Jokic, Ehis Osifo, Shyla Watson and Tatiana Tenreyro

This week we can't help but talk all about the enduring obsession with certain white men! Holly cateogories white male celebrities under the umbrella of Twitter's White Boy of the Month and #internetboyfriend. We have the Attractive but Eccentrics: Adam Driver and Robert Pattinson, etc.; Soft Bois: Timothee Chalamet, Noah Centineo and the newly discovered soft boi Barack Obama. We discuss the 'controversy' of Harry Styles' American Vogue cover and how men have been wearing skirts and dresses FOREVER. Hannah ranks all the best himbos, real and fictional, in our culture (let us know if you agree or disagree)! Other discussions include Marina and the Diamonds' new song 'Man's World' and it's mad lyrics and Sia's terrible, terrible film on autism and her reaction to the backlash (yikes)!

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Links:

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/48828/1/timothee-chalamet-internet-boyfriend-social-media-keanu-reeves-jeff-goldblum

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/05/softboi-what-is-it-instagram-q-and-a?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0fT18a2wdYREWrcCw1QC2ylaF7EYahh30ydCG0m0hyDwQifG545kO6CIY

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/twitter-white-boy-of-the-month-meme

https://graziamagazine.com/articles/barack-obama-books-women-university/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7gbnj/the-himbo-is-the-harmless-dumb-hottie-of-our-dreams

https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/8895az/himbo-and-modern-masculinity

https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate/logan-paul-harry-styles-vogue-dress-debate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/adam-driver-needs-someone-to-talk-to-and-geena-davis-got-her-dress-under-my-foot-scenes-from-the-vanity-fair-oscar-party/2020/02/10/72d9b26a-4c0e-11ea-b721-9f4cdc90bc1c_story.html 

Les Toiles Héroïques 'Ant-Man | Ants, Ants, Ant-Man ! | Promo HD'

Netflix UK & Ireland 'Zac Efron Being Pure For 6 Minutes | Down to Earth with Zac Efron'

This week Holly and Hannah return to their teenage years and the era of the YA novel! Hannah gives her opinion on John Green's early novels and his repetitive use of the whiney teenage boy and Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Holly explains why the film franchise Divergent failed and questions if it was doomed from the very beginning! They also share their very big opinions on Trisha Paytas's latest drama with James Charles and the D'Amelio sisters AND share who they want to win The Great British Bake Off!

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Links:

The Take, ‘The Sick Girl Trope, Explained’

https://medium.com/outsidercircle/why-are-manic-pixie-dream-girls-still-a-thing-a752bf4cf80a

Vanity Fair, 'Emily Ratajkowski and Theo James Teach You British Slang | Vanity Fair'

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kateaurthur/divergent-franchise-disaster#:~:text=One%20possible%20reason%20for%20its,that%20have%20worked%20as%20movies

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/24/11299572/why-divergent-fails

James Tullos ‘The worldbuilding of Divergent Makes Me Vomit’

Caleb Joeseph ‘Why the Divergent Series Went Down the Toliet’

https://www.flavorwire.com/421731/readers-reactions-to-allegiant-are-an-online-fandom-horror-story

This week we talk all things memes, from the beginning to where we find ourselves now! Holly dives into the history of memes, tracing it from 2010s to Tiktoks, whilst Hannah rates iconic Vines. We talk Baby Yoda, Rise and Shine, Avocado Vines and Cake Boss. Hannah takes us through the incredible the Babadook journey to becoming a gay icon. Other topics discussed include a range of Netflix series, The Queen's Gambit, Dash & Lily, The Crown and a LOT of Christmas talk!

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Links:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-defines-a-meme-1904778/

satansglabellas 'Vines I quote everyday'

https://stayhipp.com/apps/rip-vine-the-lasting-legacy-of-a-meme-gold-mine/

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-memes-of-all-time

https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/z3bedw/the-most-iconic-memes-of-2019

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-memes-2020

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/10/18129126/tiktok-app-musically-meme-cringe

https://www.vox.com/explainers/2017/6/9/15757964/gay-babadook-lgbtq

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2017/09/173238/pennywise-babadook-twitter-meme-relationship

We bring you our favourite and wildest conspiracy theories. Hannah explains why Paul McCartney might be dead and how the rest of The Beatles did a bad job of covering it up.  Holly gives us a range of questionable theories, starting with some sad Britney conspiracies. She discusses how Nicholas Cage is an eternal being who is feuding with John Travolta and the glorious theory that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer. All this and we still had time to discuss the US election, Supernatural and the Kardashians!

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Links:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/paul-mccartney-is-dead-conspiracy-897189/

Vinyl Rewind 'Did Paul McCartney really die in 1966? The history of the conspiracy theory | Vinyl Rewind'

https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/obsessed-celebrity-conspiracy-theories/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmw9xd/why-conspiracy-theorists-blame-britneys-meltdown-on-her-bestie-george-bush

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/25/15408610/conspiracy-theories-psychologist-explained

https://www.insider.com/celebrities-historical-lookalike-dopplegangers-2017-3#nicolas-cage-famously-looks-like-this-confederate-prisoner-of-war-1

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ted-cruz-zodiac-killer-tweet

This week we have a tipsy roundup of what we've been watching recently whilst playing the Culture Hang Drinking Game (check it out on our socials to play along to your favourite ep!). We get distracted by Kim K's not Covid-safe birthday, Holly comments on The Social Dilemma and Facebook Mums and Hannah discusses Trisha Paytas' new podcast and her *troubling* understanding of Judaism. 

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Content Warning: racism, sexual violence and sexism

Happy Halloween from your favourite rambling ladies! This week we discuss our costumes from Halloweens passed before recounting some spooky spirits from Scotland and Yorkshire! Holly talks about the ghosts of Glamis and Hannah shares the grisly details of the Black Monk of Pontefract. To calm down at the end we divulge celebrity ghost stories! Stay spooky x

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This week, we're feeling positive! We discuss our two favourite women: Jennifer Coolidge and Dolly Parton. Hannah talks about the icon that is Jennifer Coolidge and how, despite her memorable characters, she is never cast in a leading role. Holly discusses the multi-talented legend Dolly Parton and gives us even more reasons to stan. With all this positivity we still make time to gossip about pop-culture drama from the week and consider staging a fight to gain more listeners!

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Links:

Fred West 'Friends - Bloopers With Jennifer Coolidge (Original Scene-Blooper Scenes)'

Emerson College 'Jennifer Coolidge '85'

BuzzFeed Celeb 'Jennifer Coolidge Reads Thirst Tweets'

Fickle Fish Films 'Austenland Bloopers with Keri Russell, Jennifer Coolidge and more!'

snabero 'jennifer coolidge saying hi'

'Dolly Parton’s America' Jad Abumrad,  WNYC Studios & OSM Audio 

Comedy Central 'The Story Behind Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” - Drunk History'

WIRED 'Dolly Parton Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED'