In this bonus episode of Marxists at the Music, we dive deep into TLC’s groundbreaking album CrazySexyCool — not just the hits, but the history. We unpack the group’s fight for fair pay, their infamous bankruptcy filing, and how they challenged the exploitative machine of the 1990s music industry while selling millions. This isn't just a story about pop icons — it's a story about labor, image, and resistance.

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This week’s TV Spotlight turns the lens on the fiery, foul-mouthed proletarian queen of Hollywood herself—Kathy Griffin.

In My Life on the D-List, Griffin doesn’t just pull back the curtain on fame—she shreds it, sets it on fire, and sells the ashes for charity. What looks like a reality comedy show is, on closer inspection, a pointed critique of class, labor, and gender within the fame economy. It’s performance art disguised as Bravo trash. And it’s exactly the kind of working-class revolt we celebrate during International Workers Month.

We dive into her struggle for respect, the emotional cost of self-branding, and how she weaponized irrelevance to build a career on her own terms—outside the A-List, but never beneath it.

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International Workers' Day (Part 2)
Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. Yes, even this.

In our second International Workers’ Day special, we dive headfirst into the accidental communist masterpiece that is Baby’s Day Out — a slapstick odyssey where the baby is the revolutionary vanguard, the kidnappers are the capitalist class, and every pratfall is a blow against the bourgeoisie.

We explore how this 1994 Patrick Read Johnson family comedy inadvertently critiques wealth, policing, and media spectacle, and why the baby’s journey through the urban jungle feels like a Marxist allegory for class consciousness crawling its way toward liberation — in footie pajamas.

This is not a joke. This is the revolution in a diaper.

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In the first-ever bonus episode of Marxists at the Movies’ monthly spinoff Marxists at the Music, we dive headfirst into Jolin Tsai’s bold, bizarre, and subversively pop 2018 album Ugly Beauty. What does it mean to call something “ugly” in a beauty-obsessed system? How do we decode glamor when the spectacle is the prison?

From the ironic bubblegum of “Hubby” to the gothic rage of “Lady in Red,” this album isn’t just a collection of bangers—it’s a fragmented manifesto from a pop star confronting the monster the industry made her become.

We break down the album track by track, exposing the commodification of the female body, the alienation of fame, and the terrifying freedom in rejecting perfection. Jolin doesn’t just make pop music—she weaponizes it.

This is Mandarin-language cyberpunk cabaret for the post-human capitalist nightmare—and it slaps.

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