This week I’m joined by Michelle Cyca to talk about the trailer for the Mean Girls reboot. You might think: wow, that’s a very small thing to focus on, what could you possibly talk about for 45 minutes… but just you wait. WHY are they hiding that it’s a musical? WHO do they think is the actual audience for this movie? What happens when millennial content is rebooted for Gen-Z audiences without context? And why is Tina Fey apparently uncancellable? We cover it all.

• THE TRAILER IN QUESTION:

• Some context about studios shying away from marketing musicals as such

• Revisiting Queen Bees and Wannabes

• I misremembered how Drive Me Crazy is integrated into the movie — it’s more like the movie is integrated into the video for the Britney song???

• Julia Stiles’ unforgettable modern dance routine at the end of Save the Last Dance:

• Mean Girls 2 did in fact exist

• Just in case you forgot Laura Dern’s style from Jurassic Park

• Re: the Barbie Marketing Campaign (via Variety)

• The piece I wrote back at BuzzFeed News after seeing Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: “It’s Time to Stop Apologizing for Tina Fey”

• All about Michelle Cyca!!!

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• SITTING. Is it that bad? How do you feel about how much you sit? Do you do anything to sit more or less?

• The cultural force that is/was Contemporary Christian Music

• Moms for Liberty

• The appeal of the ACOTAR series

• Goodreads (what has made it so bad, a particular trend you’ve observed, should you go to Storygraph, you can take this anywhere you want)

• Very Contemporary Architecture Trends (like ‘modern farmhouse’) and/or wtf is going on with Chip & Joanna Gaines these days, why is their new show so banal

• Whatever Bradley Cooper’s deal is

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