megan's podcast

Megan's back for 2024 and she's dissecting the discourse, drawing the parallels, and respectfully disagreeing.

🙅🏾‍♀️ Why daily challenges aren't perfectionist-friendly
🤩 A celeb sighting story
🪪  Do you need a library card? (yes)
🥤 What's with the Stanley cups? (pre-lead discourse)
🐘 Are Sephora tweens normalizing Gen Z hate?
🪄 The internet has turned on Selena Gomez
🐀 Disney's in its villain era
🍿 Movie review: American Fiction 
🦋 Was the NYT queerbaiting for clicks?
🤔 Influencer individuality complexes

Mentioned Media
Man Enough Podcast 
MT Deco Stanley Cup Blog Post
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
American Fiction (Trailer)
Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do (NYT Op-ed)

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This week on the podcast Megan realizes that she says "and I think that..." too much. But it's worth dealing with to hear about the trends she's anticipating for 2024. 

👋🏾 0:00 intro
⚖️ 3:00 defining cultural "shifts" vs. "pendulum swings"
💿 4:30 physical media makes a comeback
💟 7:45 stickers are the new friendship bracelets
🖼️ 9:45 gallery halls are the new gallery walls (re: bookshelf wealth & eclectic grandpa)
📍 13:50 flagship stories as brand marketing
🗞️ 17:13 continued decline of traditional journalism 
✂️ 20:38 zines
⏰ 22:42 tiktok is the new twitter
 24:00 Apple breaks into creator economy 
👸🏼 25:08 Taylor Swift starts her own record label 
3️⃣ 29:20 third space discourse 
🔮 31:06 timestamp clout
📺 32:46 the return of programming 
✍🏾 35:35 archivists are the new forecasters
📖 37:55 celebrity memoir book club domination 
🏹 40:30 dating podcasts 
🎨 43:09 craft club is the new book club 
🚗 44:16 car clubs 
✈️ 45:07 the democratization of the influencer trip
💅🏾 47:21 the mainstreams accepts (& begin to understand) aesthetics 
🪡 48:41 artisans, couture, handmade 
💍 50:15 wedding culture wars 
🇺🇸 54:17 new political party defined by age 
🌷55:45 become a flower bitch for spring 

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In Part 1 of this special 2-part series, Megan is looking back on her 2023 trend predictions & grading herself on how they panned out. (answer: good, but not to virgo stellium standards)

🪩 0:00 Intro
🔮 1:15 Everyone's a forecaster now...
🤔 3:30 ...is that a good or bad thing?
👩🏾‍💻 5:15 Explaining the role of predictions for a professional forecaster
♍ 9:00 Megan's 2023 Trend Predictions (there are 23 of them)
✅ 24:20 Final grade on Megan's predictions for last year
💌 25:10 Takeaways & learnings

mentioned media:
2024 fashion trend predictions (podcast: anything goes with emma chamberlain)
Quiet quitting (@zaidleppelin on TikTok)
"Corporate Erin" by @lisabevolving on TikTok
An Honest Conversation with Emma Chamberlain (Colin & Samir, YouTube)
Mean Girls, 2024 (Trailer)
Bellows Organic Cotton Handmade Colorful Tufted Abstract Rug
Our 2024 pop culture predictions (Pop Culture Happy Hour, Podcast)  

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Megan's last episode of the year & she's in a reflective and philosophical mood while looking back on unmet goals, and dissecting the discourse 

Topics covered:
🚩 Simone Biles' husband's red flags
🎤 Is Trevor Noah a sellout? 
👎🏾 NBCU CEO fired (but Matt Belloni says he's a good guy)
🚢 Royal Caribbean's 9-month cruise 
🎀 Coquette-core; the art & politics of critique 
🍞 Beth the baker 

Mentioned media: 

• Jonathan Owens Undrafted to Starter, NFL Playoff Push, Wife Simone Biles & Mental Health | The Pivot
• "Trevor Noah's Villain Era" (TikTok) 
• "End a large business" (TikTok)
• The Biggest Debacles of 2023: Studio Screwups, Executive Misfires, and Underrated Disasters
• Pamela Wurst aka @TheMostest on TikTok 
• @ThatAdult (TikTok)
• Unraveling the ‘What About Me’ Effect and the Rise of Me-Core (h/t Amanda Brennan) 
• This Video Isn't Just About Taylor Swift. It's About You.

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This week (and every week) on the podcast, Megan is intellectualizing pop culture with a Valley Girl speech pattern through an extremely online lens. 

[cw: discussion of childhood sexual abuse @ 20:00 ]

Topics covered:
🎥 prestige film szn & what to watch
👩🏻‍🦰 the Emma Stone Effect
👻 Did Elvis possess Austin & Jacob?
📰 Supporting print journalism
🎤 Olivia Rodrigo on SNL
🍑 psychoanalyzing Pantone's color of the year
🔦 surveillance culture (women's version)
👎🏽 more matt rife gossip

Mentioned Media:

• "We need a ceasefire" by @Greycism on TikTok & Instagram 
• Poor Things (trailer) 
• Past Lives (trailer)
• American Fiction (trailer)
• Variety Actors on Actors: Emma Stone x Bradley Cooper
• Variety Actors on Actors: Jacob Elordi x Colman Domingo
• Las Culturistas Matt Rodgers & Bowen Yang 
• Olivia Rodrigo Vampire (Live on SNL) 
• Pinterest Predicts
• Pantone's Color of the Year
• Opinion: Listen up. The closing of the teenage mind is almost complete (LA Times)

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Megan's confronting her demons including: TikTok addiction, tinsel's commitment to chaos, and white mothers of Black children.

topics covered:
📉 Spotify laid off 17% of its workforce
📱 The ergonomics of screentime
🪶 Sabrina Carpenter vs. The Catholic Church
🧿 Beyonce carefully crafting Blue Ivy's Legacy
💵 Kim Kardashian allowing culture to villainize North West
💖 TikTok influencer "girls girl" gossip
💔 Molly Mae x Tommy Fury
🎙️ New internet fave Brooke Schofield

mentioned media
Feather by Sabrina Carpenter (Video)
Brooke Schofield On Her Toxic Ex, Feuding With Tana & the Future of CANCELLED | Just Trish Ep. 28 (Vodcast)
North West Slams Moms Kim Kardashians "Dollar Store" Met Gala Look (E! News)
Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce (Buy tickets)
Girls Girl Discourse (Rabbit hole)

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it's the best of times (the holidays) & the worst of times (seasonal depression)

this week megan's covering:
🍉 the internet calling for a ceasefire
👰🏻‍♀️  Priscilla (2023) a review & analysis
🌌 anxious avoidants 
👨🏽‍⚖️ Keke Palmer embarking on a custody battle
⛄ #WhiteBoyWinter
🤠 The Lauren Sanchezification of Joffrey Bozo 
👄 Matt Rife on how to lose fans & alienate people
🙃 the empathy drought

mentioned media:
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
@greycism on Palestine
Celebrity Memoir Book Club Patreon
'Priscilla' takes the romance out of a storied relationship - Pop Culture Happy Hour
Marie Antionette (2006)
Why is YouTube Like This
Colour Drama TikTok

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Thanksgiving who? Like Target, Megan's skipping straight to Christmas 

topics include:
🚫 We lost a homie (aka a culture podcast) 
😲 Rosanna Pansino's Mr. Beast edit & "for the boys" culture 
🦇 Halloween 2023 & what it says about culture 
🧪 Death Becomes Her (1992) was ahead of its time 

Mentioned Media:

• Devon Lee Carlson (Wildflower Cases)
• MrBeast Accused of ‘Editing Out’ YouTuber Rosanna Pansino From Creator Games Video
• Death Becomes Her (1992) 

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• The Cult of David Dobrik 
• Priscilla 
• men who hate women on main
• Doja Cat 
• Kim Kourtney phone call

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Megan's talking about spooky szn, the Shanspear video you need to watch & her thoughts on Travlor Kelswift

what's happening:
😒 unpacking the disdain the media has for "the internet"
🍁  Why I love the bers and am dreading the uarys #iykyk
🏈 Taylor Swift plays with fire (fire = the 1950s ish they want from her)
👀 A cynical take on Alex Cooper taking Alix Earle under her wing
🧨 Just Pearly Things & the people antagonizing their way to relevance
🎙️ for example: dax sheppard slut(!) shaming Taylor

mentioned media:
TikTok Femininity Coaching and Aestheticizing Racism
@_50shadesofkay1 "-bers / -uary" TikTok
Opinion: The Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce narrative has a dark side
TikTok Star Alix Earle Announces Podcast ‘Hot Mess’ for Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network
The Tragic Tale of JustPearlyThings | The Un-Pickable Pick-Me
An Author Is Being Accused of Exploiting Women On TikTok With His Book Promotion Videos
@ftheniceguy

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Intro Music is Another Day by Ahoami

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