Hey EICrackers, merry Friday...get ready for a magical, festive &... fatigued, episode!

First up, Wicked For Good. We all went down the yellow brick road to the cinema to see the sequel. The story picks up after Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) has fled the Emerald City and been branded the "Wicked Witch of the West" by the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) and Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh). Glinda (Ariana Grande), now "Glinda the Good," struggles with her public role as the Wizard's associate while her friendship with Elphaba is tested. The film focuses on their final journey to see each other with empathy and change Oz "for good". We get into it.

Next! We don’t know if you've heard, but Christmas is coming. How do we know this? Because the annual supermarket/high street Christmas adverts have dropped in the UK. High street festive ads have become peak Christmas culture in the UK. For our non-UK listeners, Lena Dunham did a fairly good poke at this in Too Much with the John Lewis Rita Ora playing Santa ad. So this year, we’re going to take a look at some of the big ones that have dropped.

And finally... from Christmas Ads to CHRIST, not another ad. In a piece on Substack, Hannah Glenn explores her own fatigue with advertising, in a world where everything and everyone seems to be trying to sell her something.

We hope you enjoy as always please do leave a review on your podcast player app, LY, O,R,B xxx

Thank you so much to Cue for editing this podcast!

Beth's been loving: No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood, Oenone's Substack

Ruchira's been loving: Wuthering Heights,Broadchurch

Oenone's been loving: Pluribus, Mother Mary Trailer

Wicked For Good - box office smash

“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad

Crisis At Christmas Appeal

Top 10 UK Christmas Ads

Joel Goldby's Gift Guide

Nothing Feels Authentic Anymore Because Everything is an Ad, Hannah Glenn

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Happy Wednesday episode day, EIChuppaChups! 🍭

This week we’re diving into the recent backlash to influencers charging luxury price points for their brands and products. It's not a new issue, but boy is the internet pissed off with some recent examples.

Hannah Neeleman known best as Ballerina Farm, one of the most popular trad wife influencers, was hit with backlash for selling a $259 cutting board on her website. Meanwhile, The Girls Bathroom co-hosts Sophia Tuxford and Cinzia Baylis-Zullo launched their new lifestyle brand with a £110 robe, £60 candle and £45 slippers. Both have been called “crazy” and “out of touch’ since.

Thank you so much for all of your amazing takes. Please consider leaving us a review and passing the podcast onto a friend <3 love O, R, B xoxo EIC

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Hello EICupcakes 🧁 we're back with another brand-new episode!

Charli XCX has joined Substack. She's dropped two essays including the realities of being a pop star, sharing the great, the bad and the embarassing aspects of her new life. Is this the new pivot for artists?

Next-up, Rachel Sennott, who is part of Charli's gorgeous bestie circle, launched her debut comedy-drama I Love LA this month. It's since received mixed reviews. We ask – is this the internet-y, Gen Z series we've been gagging for?

And finally, a piece in the Observer asked if raising our kids offline will soon became the new class barrier, with rich and priviledged people accessing this luxury far more easily than others.

In partnership with Cue Podcasts.

Thank you so much for listening to us <3 please do leave us a review wherever you're listening – it would make our weeks! Love O, R, B xxxx

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This week, Ruchira reccomended Pluribus and Die My Love. Beth loved You’re The Worst and Caroline Flack: Search For The Truth, while Oenone shared All Her Fault, Mr Mercedes and David Attenborough's Kingdom.

Charli's Subtack

Every famous musician on Substack to follow

Inside Substack Writers' Civil War: Glennon Doyle, 'Gentrification' & Stars

I Love LA

The next status symbol is an offline childhood

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Hello EICritical Thinkers & happy humping day (or whatever the saying is).

This week we're discussing the apparent mass-vanishing act of male authors, after a piece for The Guardian suggested that David Szalay's Booker win has "put masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction." Oh! Ok!

In a rebuttal for Vogue, author and friend of the podcast Eliza Clarke argues that it’s time to put this debate to bed. She writes: “Male writers still continue to dominate literary awards. They make up a large portion of our bestsellers, all the while continuing to be viewed as more worthy and deserving of critical plaudits. Bernadine Evaristo remains the only Black woman to have won a Booker Prize, ever, and she had to share that win with Margaret Atwood.”

With your help and takes we ask: is there any truth to it? And if so: what's driving women's dominion in literary fiction?

Thanks for all of your thoughts as ever! Follow us on IG @everythingiscontentpod. Love O, R, B x

Links:

Vogue - It's Time To Put The "Where Are All The Male Novelists" Debate To Bed

Compact Mag - The Vanishing White Male Writer

Current Affairs - The White Male Writer Is Fine I Promise

GQ - Why men need to read more novels

The Guardian - Do we need more male novelists?

VOX - What happened to the bestselling young white man?

Unherd - How to read like a man?

Wikipedia - Performative Male

The Guardian - The truth about boys and books

Substack - The dawn of the post-literate society

Books mentioned:

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Loren Ipsum by Andrew Gallix

Flesh by David Szalay

Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

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Hello EICherries 🍒 We're back with a fresh crop of content for you...

Ryan Murphy's latest legal drama All's Fair has kickstarted the internet's incredible meme cycle. Just how bad is Kim Kardashian's pivot to acting? Why is she wearing a pencil skirt with exposed thong? And could this girlboss law firm series land itself into the camp canon?

Next up, millenials are spending huge amounts on cosmetic work. A new Bustle piece speaks to the women convinced this is the natural outcome from never being able to afford a house.

And finally Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is back after selling the site to Elon Musk and essentially leaving it to metaphorically burn. Guess what... he's now bringing back Vine, the original and beloved video-sharing platform that unexpectedly shut down in 2017. Is he the saviour we need or is this something more sinister?

Thank you so much for listening <3 O, R, B xoxo

In partnership with Cue Podcasts.

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This week, Ruchira has been loving Bugonia and Princess Mononoke. Oenone has been loving The Sopranos and The Project. Beth has been loving Pluribus.

All's Fair

I Can't Afford A House, So Why Don't I Just Be Gorgeous?

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive

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Hey EIClass! Open your pencil cases, notepads, and ears!

This week’s episode is brought to you by Get Into Teaching, and we’re joined by someone very special: Chemistry teacher Charlotte McColl… who also happens to be our very own Beth’s big sister.

We loved picking Charlotte’s brain about what teaching actually looks like day to day, the creativity it demands, the surprises it brings, why 'six–seven' is so confusing (we're still confused), and so much more. There’s even a little pop-culture pop quiz, so feel free to play along at home.

Our conversation was a reminder that a career in teaching doesn’t just shape the next generation — it transforms the teacher too.

Turn your passion into your profession. Search Get Into Teaching.

O,R,B x

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Hey EIChihuahuas, happy Friday! To celebrate, we gift you a brand new episode, kisses.

This week on the podcast it’s just Oenone & Beth steering the content ship through the choppy waters of: The Real Housewives of London, the biblical new release from Rosalía, & a controversial new celebrity skincare line.

First... Real housewives of London premiered this summer, with many curious as to how this beloved show would fare across the Atlantic. The series follows eight women navigating London’s ultra-wealthy social circles, balancing old money, new money, & country piles. There’s glamorous events, designer drama, & class tensions with the expected Housewives mix of alliances, gossip, & fallouts. The series sees the women get into blows over some dubious dentistry aka teeth-gate, renting outfits, not picking up the bill & the definition of ‘best friend’. We share our thoughts on the series & the explosive two-parter reunion.

Next up, on November 6 Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell launched a new line of sheet masks for children. Everyone’s writing about it from Glamour, to Marie Claire, The New York post & The Metro, & not an insignificant number of you guys in our DMs, too. So is this a dystopian nightmare, or just a bit of harmless fun that’s been blown out of proportion?

And last but by no means least, an album hotly anticipated globally, but also very much on this podcast, & that is LUX, the fourth record by Spanish singer and songwriter Rosalía. According to Pitchfork it’s “a heartfelt offering of avant-garde classical pop that roars through genre, romance, and religion”. The BBC called it “radical and riveting” & NME said it’s “an arresting album of astonishing scope and ambition”. The 33 year old, who is a trained Flamenco singer, sings in 13 different languages on the album, including Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese, Latin and Sicilian, and worked for a year writing the lyrics and working with professional translators to make sure they were just right. It is receiving an avalanche of five star reviews for artistry, composition, narrative, lyrics. The album is now out, we’ve both listened to it... We’re by no means musical experts, but we give our thoughts.

Thank you so much to Cue podcasts for the edit.

Beth's been loving: Shirley Valentine, The Missing Kayaker

Oenone's been loving: Loren Ipsum, Andrew Gallix

Real Housewives Of London

Shay Mitchell statement on Rini

What Dermatologists Really Think About Sheet Masks for Toddlers -

Rosalía Has Biggest Streaming Debut of Any Female Spanish-Language Artist on Spotify

love ya O, R, B xx

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Happy Wednesday EICuties! This week it's something a little bit special- Everything Is Content went on tour! For this week's midweek episode we went to Sadler's Wells East in Stratford, a brand new theatre for dance, that is (in their words) "home to everything from hip hop to ballet, rave to rhumba and kathak to krumping."

For this week's content school trip we were toured around Sadler's Wells East by dance artist Liam Riddick, who talks us through the basics of ballet, Sadler's Wells' ethos, the future (and past) of dance and why the aesthetics of this dance has been so pervasive in today's wider culture.

Thanks for listening! We so appreciate it! O, R, B xxxx

In collaboration with Sadler's Wells.

Show notes / Further reading

Welcome to Sadler's Wells East

Sadler's Wells- Academy Breakin' Convention FAQs

Sadler's Wells - What's On

Barbican - The Seagull

Instagram - ModelsDoingBallet

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TGIF! This week on Everything Is Content... a viral article, chaotic reality TV and rumours of yet another celebrity face lift.

First up, if you've not read Chanté Joseph's mega viral Vogue article titled Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? then you've definitely seen the discourse. Julia Fox has weighed in (she says it is) and now it's our turn. We ask: what did we make of the piece, do we think this is an IRL phenomenon or strictly an online shift, and what do we think is behind it?

Secondly we're back in LA LA land for a brand new series of Selling Sunset. Ruchira finished it in 3 days, Beth in 2 and we're all obsessed. We discuss the inherent toxicity of reality TV, this series' houses and whether we like seeing behind the curtain on these kind of shows.

And last but not least, rumours of cosmetic surgery have been swirling around Emma Stone for the last few months and people are feeling a type of way about it. But is that fair? Can we reasonably feel disappointed when our fav female stars decide to opt out of growing older naturally or is it simply none of our business?

Thank you SO much for listening this week and every week. Pleeease could you gift us a review on your podcast player app so other people can find us? We adore everyone who has already. Love O, R, B xoxox

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This week Beth was not really loving Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson (though she remains a lifelong devotee and fan), Oenone was loving Zadie Smith's appearance on Adam Buxton's podcast and Ruchira was loving Rosalía's interview on Popcast and season 2 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

The New York Times - Shibboleth

Vogue - Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?

Substack - is having a boyfriend embarrassing now? yes and that's why we're hiding them

Spotify - Call Her Daddy x Spencer Pratt

Substack - I Feel Sad About Emma Stone's New Face

Timestamps:

15:00: Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?

41:41 Selling Sunset

57:37: Emma Stone's face

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Hello EICuties! Due to circumstances beyond our control we were unable to release our planned episode, and so we've wound the clock back to April 2024 with a re-release of one of our favourite topics... age gap discourse and the time the internet was set alight by an essay in The Cut about a relationship between a younger woman and a slightly older man. What's our general perception of age gaps in relationships, is the tide changing and what did we think of the piece itself?

Thanks so much for your understanding and don't worry- we'll be back with you on Friday as usual with some juicy new takes and topics.

Rolling Stone - Aaron Taylor Johnson

The Independent: There's a reason we love to talk about age gap relationships

The Cut: The Case For Marrying An Older Man

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