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The Re-Brand (with DJ John Michael)
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Welcome to HOMOPHONIC hosted by Zach Rickel, your favorite pop music meme creator behind the ICONIC Instagram account, @afunctioninggay.
On this inaugural episode I'm joined by the legend himself, DJ John Michael where we take the opportunity to kind of re-introduce myself into the world. People know my memes but it's hit-or-miss when it comes to me as a person. I live my fantasy of being on Las Culturistas and discuss where my love of pop music stemmed from and how it has evolved over the years. We also discuss the change from the previous podcast, POP THEORY to the new show.
I'm excited to welcome you all on this journey. Welcome to HOMOPHONIC ... now DANCE YOU MOTHER F*CKERS!
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Introduction to Homophonic and Guest Appearance
00:00:00
Speaker
Well, hello, strangers. It is Zach Rickle, aka a functioning gay from Instagram. I am so excited to finally unveil a new podcast to the world homophonic where much like my voice, it is not that deep.
00:00:16
Speaker
We are just going to talk all things pop music, but I'm sure we're gonna go on tangents that might not even be pop music related. I'm just excited to go on to this new venture. And today I am so excited to be joined by a dear friend of mine, DJ john Michael from peloton. Hello, hello. How are you? I'm good. Look at this a new rebrand we love a little rebrand a refresh A refresh. Did I say even say the name of the show yet? I think so. did i Do it again if you didn't. Homophonic. There it is. but There it is. Okay. I'm already like brain fogging. Right. falling apart falling falling Falling apart. It's been a minute. It's been a minute. where were're it's like It's like riding a bike, right? We got it is but got to just start slowly but surely and we're just
Zach's Online Persona and Podcast Journey
00:01:05
Speaker
going to get there.
00:01:05
Speaker
Absolutely. Yeah, but I'm excited to have you on because I feel like, you know, something that I find interesting with my meme page is that a lot of people kind of don't necessarily realize a human being is behind the page like they even though like I post photos of myself, I show myself constantly in my stories, but so people still don't make that connection. So I felt like it might be fun to have you almost do like an interview style type of episode where you just kind of interview me a little bit. and just I think so too. because Well, I mean, I think the biggest question if we're going to do this is, well, why you?
00:01:46
Speaker
Why me? Yeah. Why? That's a great question. Why me? Well, why not me? Why not you? In my head, first of all, it's like, why not me? But you know, we, my friend Jeff and I, one of my besties, ah we had done another podcast, Pop Theory, last year. It was a lot of fun. But we had kind of just kind of come to the decision ah like early fall this year that we were just like, you know,
00:02:15
Speaker
it's probably good to just kind of maybe part ways on this project. And then I would just kind of take it on by myself and do a little rebranding and then just kind of dive headfirst. I don't know. And I love that. Yeah. And honestly, like, I just want to be transparent to everyone out there. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm really excited about it.
00:02:35
Speaker
Yeah, but nobody does. And I think that's what the joy is. Yeah, I think so too. And I just kind of feel like i I know that, you know, obviously my love and my passion is for pop music and music in general. But I also know that I have a lot of opinions and and things that I think about.
00:02:52
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you know, other
Exploring Pop Music and Cultural Commentary
00:02:54
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times too. And I just, you know, while I love the idea of the show still being focused on pop music, and I want it to be that, but I also want to feel free to like, if some if we start talking about something else, then like, let's go there, you know, I don't know, I just really want to explore all different types of things.
00:03:11
Speaker
Well, I feel like then we should at least like baseline a little bit here yeah and sort of like set up to like where where does this all begin for Zach? So like if we're talking about pop music or at least pop culture, I know that you had asked your internet following um yeah some for some questions if they wanted to ask you anything. And I guess this is sort of along the similar line. So I'm going to use this person's wording. But um they said, if you were a guest on Las Culturistas, what would you say is the culture that made you say culture is for me? I was going to say more about pop music. And like, when did you realize that like pop music was for you? Or what can you sort of like
00:03:52
Speaker
What's your earliest memory of there being like such a pop record that you were like, so like just holding on to but I mean, yeah, either one is fine pop dad's are music.
Musical Influences and Childhood Memories
00:04:02
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That's a really good question because I feel like I kind of look at my life almost in in book chapters or stages in a way.
00:04:10
Speaker
And so I can kind of reference several different moments throughout my childhood where I kind of really started making like a connection to music. I think some of my earliest memories, um I have a memory of listening to Michael Jackson in my living room. My dad my dad was playing his um his bad album.
00:04:33
Speaker
ah And yeah, and specifically the way you make me feel came on. And first of all, that that motorcycle at the beginning of the song used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Loud noises in general as a little kid, I was such a paranoid and and I'm still like kind of a paranoid person to this day, um carried right on into my adulthood. But um as a little kid, like loud noises like some motorcycles, blenders, vacuums always scared the shit out of me.
00:04:59
Speaker
And so but I remember listening to that song and i and I loved it. So I think that what would happen is that my dad, like I'd have to be like, dad, you have to like, let me know. And I would cover my ears for the motorcycle part. And then I would start and then I dance to the rest of the song. um but So what's your what's your favorite song on the bad album?
00:05:18
Speaker
Probably that's the way you make me feel. At work. I think mine's Liberian Girl. Oh, that's a good one. It's so good. I feel like when we talk about Michael Jackson, that's one that we really don't talk about enough. We don't. We don't. and in In fact, I'm not even super familiar with that song. I know I've heard it and listened to it. If you want to see something crazy, watch the music video for that.
00:05:36
Speaker
Is that the music video where he's he's like the director at the very end, like he's not even in it. And it's yeah like kind of like, I don't don't remember if it's like supermodels that are in the video or- It's literally anybody that was famous in the eighties, isn't it? Yeah. And they're all just kind of like walking around the set and then it and then it turns, the camera like turns to him and he he ends up being the director of the video. Right, right. It's so nuts, but it's like the craziest like ah assembly of eighties pop stars that I've ever seen in my life. that. Yeah, you should you will you have all people would love that because there's so many cameos. It's wild. That's fun. That's really fun. Yeah. So that's like one of my earliest memories of pop music. But I would say like, then like when I got into grade school, I remember loving achy break your heart. That was like part of my like gym class. I absolutely had that cassette single.
00:06:30
Speaker
yeah Did you? I absolutely did. And I'm pretty sure that the B side was was some gay ball, I want to say. It's like some very big like American military rah-rah song. At what we at love. Right, right, right, right. Because if there's one thing you know about me or you. That's really what this show is actually going to be about. Right, right. just nothing says Nothing says military rah-rah, like homophonic, you know?
00:06:59
Speaker
because these sounds do be gay. Hmm. Let's celebrate that. Yeah. Run a tank on me, daddy. Right. But then it's because I loved that song in the in my gym class. And so I think my mom got that album for me. But I was still so yeah I was probably in like second grade. I don't think I knew how to use the CD player. So I never actually listened to the album at home. I just listened to it in my gym class.
00:07:28
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And then I remember my cousin loving ah Mariah Carey's Daydream album. I was about 10 years old at the time and I remember we would listen to it in the car and I loved that. My dad also just in general was constantly playing music so he would play everything from again Michael Jackson to Aerosmith to Jefferson Starship to just like all of these. And I think that the common thread is that so many of these songs had really big soaring choruses, like just very anthemic.
00:08:03
Speaker
And then, so then the actual like time moment, though, that I really got into pop music where it really clicked for me and I became an obsession and it became my own like passion that I would like follow through was it was 1997. Hansen's and Bob came on the radio. You are out of control. I know I am out of control. And here's the thing is that Hansen's and Bob came out of the radio.
00:08:30
Speaker
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was driving, this is so random, I was driving with my family to a cow farm because my my parents were like, we're going to go to the cow farm, feed the cows, walk on the nature trails. It was a whole thing. We love to do it in the summertime. sure shout Shout out to Bering Springs, Michigan, population of like 500 people. Shout out to the gay population there.
00:08:54
Speaker
literally sent they had Venice in that area. So they're having a great time. Great time. And so. And wait, what year is this? You said 97? 1997. OK, got it. And um that like awoke something in me that I remember then for my birthday, I got both the CD single for Umbap and their Middle of Nowhere album.
00:09:19
Speaker
And then shortly after, I remember then all of a sudden they just opened the floodgates and I was like watching MTV obsessively and then just started taking on just like all this music that I was getting fed.
00:09:30
Speaker
Wait, so is this also like a celebrity crush situation with Hanson or? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Were they the first? a Were they the first? No, they my first crush. And I don't. What was the movie called? What was the movie with the three white boys or ninjas? Was it called three ninjas? I don't even know.
00:09:52
Speaker
There was some movie where there was these three white boys who were who became ninjas. And I was obsessed with, I think, the younger one. I think it's called Three Ninjas, it looks like. Is it? OK.
00:10:07
Speaker
And I remember there was a this younger one in of the I think there were like three brothers maybe. And I remember the youngest one I was I remember crying actually being like, I want to be friends with this person. But looking back now, I'm like, Oh, no, that was 100% a crush. Like, that is so fun. I'm like looking this movie up to try to figure out who these people are. I have never seen this movie ever in my life.
00:10:32
Speaker
I have not watched it since. and ninety two Oh, man. So I was seven years old at the time. See, like, just let it be known to the everybody out there. This is it's it's it has nothing to do with nurture. It's absolutely nature.
00:10:46
Speaker
Absolutely, absolutely. and Or maybe it was you know that movie studio being like, they're go we're gonna make this little little boy gay. Right, right, right. This one's for the little F-slurs. This one's for the F-slurs who love a good karate moment. Right. Like you do. Like you do, exactly. Like you do. Wait, so where did the love of Madonna start to factor factor
Current Music Favorites and Industry Challenges
00:11:06
Speaker
in? Because that's what I feel like I always associate her the most with you. Right, to fag turn. Right. ah Yeah, so that's a great question. So the following year, so like I said, so 1997 really opened the floodgates. I remember like, cause like that was M-bop. I kind of discovered like probably May, June of that year. And literally by September, I was like obsessed with Mariah Carey. I was right obsessed with En Vogue. I was obsessed with Janet Jackson, like just like just taking on all of the current pop stars at the time. And the following year, I remember watching MTV
00:11:41
Speaker
in watching this. ah I think that MTV was just because again, back at that time, they would just constantly promote new music videos and things that were coming out and teasing things. And there was a clip that they were showing and they were like teasing the premiere of the Frozen video. And I remember it was like one of it was like a clip of like the cloth that was like kind of floating through the desert. Yes.
00:12:05
Speaker
and i were And at the time, I was obsessed with just like anything mystical, which is kind of funny, considering that I also went to Lutheran school at the time. Oh, well, they are mystical. and we had they They I am certain that they were probably like praying for my life. They were like this little faggot. Right. This like this little faggot who's like praying to the devil with like Lutheran Van Ross.
00:12:31
Speaker
Like, just literally. And so because I loved loved I loved witches, I loved wizards, I loved like any sort of mythical creature that was like yeah loved and that the was a natural wonder store in the mall. Literally, like you you you so let me see a crystal. That's it. Like a crystal and a rain stick.
00:12:51
Speaker
It is literally like you're seeking my love language. And so i so I remember seeing that video and I was like, okay, who is this? What is this? I'm obsessed. And then the music video premiered. There was also like a Madonna-san like music video, the countdown that they were just playing all of her music videos around that same time.
00:13:15
Speaker
So I remember like being completely enamored. right just And and and then then ever since then, I was just like obsessed with Madonna. So this is where it ties into the last culture thesis question though. This is kind of, because this is kind of like, again, a stage thing. Because if I was thinking about like what was the culture that made me say culture is for me,
00:13:37
Speaker
I was obsessed with the Little Mermaid as every right kid was right back in the eighties and just in general, but like upset obsessed with the Little Mermaid. and And then around that same time, I remember my dad pulling me aside again, I I'm it's 89.
00:13:54
Speaker
maybe 1990. So I'm like four or five years old, my dad pulls me aside and says, Zach, look, there's mermaids on the TV. Because again, I'm obsessed with a little mermaid, right? Right. And it's this black and white video with this woman running around on the beach. Oh, no. Singing. And it's Cherish. And it's Cherish. I didn't know it was Cherish until I watched that Madonna thon. So ah so it was in that moment where I was like, Oh, my God, this woman I have been like connected to,
00:14:22
Speaker
for my entire life, not really knowing. Yes. And again, I'm like 12 years old. Like this is like having a life changing moment. Right, right. Life changing. So that's kind of like what so those were kind of the things that kind of got me into where I am today, where I've just, and ever since then, I've just been obsessed with pop music. I love that. So now if we were going to come current day, who would you be obsessed with currently?
00:14:52
Speaker
obsessed with currently in the music landscape sure yeah uh well madonna still like of course well i mean there's always the mainstays the madonna the mariahs the all of that yeah yeah yeah obsessed with i and other than jina g ah in 2024. I mean, you know, I, I really do. I don't know something that my dad, I don't know if it was my dad that taught me this or what, but like, I've always revered like kind of legendary people. Right.
00:15:26
Speaker
And so like it was kind of, and not really knowing it was unusual for me at my age, but like I mean, when I was in high school, Madonna was still very popular. I mean, she was really seeing Ray of Light in the music album, and that was all very successful throughout my you know early high school years, um and Janet Jackson and whatnot. And I so also loved you know the the pop stars at the time, too, like Brittany and Christina and the Backstreet Boys in sync, yada, yada, yada.
00:15:51
Speaker
But I also revered people like Tina Turner, and she loved them. and so And I think part of the reason why I loved them was because they I knew that they were legends. I knew that they were established artists, they had a legendary career, they had their ups, they had their downs. And there's just something about all of that lore that I loved.
00:16:14
Speaker
And so, um yeah, so that still translates today, because I mean, I still love all of those artists. As far as like newer artists goes, I mean, chapel right now, right, right, of course, it's excellent. um Love Charlie XCX, not a new artist, but like, you know, love Charlie. Rina Sawayama. I need more music from her. I'm
00:16:41
Speaker
part of wonders if she hasn't released anything i think it feels like she had like a label thing i don't know because i feel it was like a weird thing because like a whole the girl came out and then like labels are usually obviously prone to celebrating anniversaries but i thought it was strange that they did a whole one year anniversary vinyl repress with like a new cover and that stuff been packaging but no new songs right And I was like, all right, I was like, that's a little strange. I don't know what it is that you're trying to get out of this. And then that was it. And then there was just sort of nothing else. And then I think she did John Wick and she was like, and did the movie thing for a minute. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either. I know that she would jumped on, uh, is the Empress of, you she did a song yeah with her. She did a song with Paris Hilton. Charlie. She did a song with Charlie, but I think that they, so here's the thing. I i think that there is a falling out between
00:17:37
Speaker
Rina and her record label, which is an independent label, Dirty Hit, which I think is owned by Maddie Healy, or he's a board member or something of it. And I want to say there was some sort of falling out because she had a falling out with Charlie. So there's one some sort of drama that I'm i not fully ah educated on.
00:17:56
Speaker
Oh, I don't know. Yeah, but whatever it is, fix it because we need to fix it. Fix it like because she I would say Rina is one of the best artists to come out in the last five years. Without a doubt. let it out Yeah. Like where's her best new artist nomination? Right. at the grammys And she seems to I think be the when I think of like the ah disciple of like more current pop stars like a Lady Gaga era type pop star. She seems to be the next one in line to me musically. Absolutely. Like the talent is there. The vocals are there. The production like she's definitely taking notes like
00:18:35
Speaker
Aesthetically, like she's got all the good. She really does have it. She really does. And the versatility. I mean, it 100% her debut album. So I mean, you literally have everything from that like new metal sound to write like the dance pop of Lucid to like you have like Y2K R and&B pop stylings mixed with synth pop. I'm like Tokyo Love Hotel. Like it's crazy. Yeah. So and it's an and it's I feel like people don't know what to do with her, to be honest. I feel like that's part of it. Yeah, because what's interesting to me is that that album is so sonically all over the place, but somehow makes it cohesive. And I'm obsessed when people are able to do that. I don't know how they're able to do that. But it is and like truly incredible. And then Hold the Girl definitely had more of a rock vibe.
00:19:25
Speaker
but But I mean, you had the you had the obviously the pop anger of like, you know, this hell. But then like, I love that. Was it the ballads um send my love to John? Yeah. Oh, my God. Did I cry when I watched her do that in person? It was so I was so weepy, but it was so good. She's she's the Brooklyn show. Yes. Oh, she's so jealous. Didn't she? I think Jeff was also there. Oh, maybe. Yeah. I think Jeff went to that show.
00:19:52
Speaker
Not me and Jeff bech be Beecher be in the same room. Oh oh my God. Oh my. An actual sir ah celebrity sighting. there that That beach ball. Oh my goodness. But yeah, let love her. So, I mean, music is, it's ah we're at a really interesting state of music because, you know, niche to paraphrase Ms. XCX is celebrated more than ever.
00:20:18
Speaker
But I feel like we're at a moment where we are just so saturated with artists. I think I saw, wait, I read something the other day that said more music comes out in a day now, I think on Spotify, than all of the music that came out in 1984.
00:20:41
Speaker
That's wild. It's something crazy like that. Like I have to get the actual thing, but it was, we were talking about it at work. Somebody had brought up the article. So it's, it's crazy. It's liberating. It's disheartening. Like there's so many different emotions I have with it because, you know, as somebody who does contribute music to the ether, it's sort of like, how do you, you feel like you're always sort of screaming into a void. And I think that's why like the big label stuff like,
00:21:09
Speaker
you know, you think even something like Wicked, like no one alive on this planet with connected internet or any type of television or whatever has and no idea that this movie has been happening. Like I've never seen ah a rollout for anything like I have the Wicked movie. They said we are going to promote this movie.
00:21:29
Speaker
starting a year ago. And we're never going to let you forget it. No. And this is going to go on all year until the next one comes out too. Nuts. Right. i said But I have never seen the amount of promo and the amount of things that you actually have like the principal cast doing. Like they're everywhere doing content for everything and everybody. It's so insane to me.
Discussion on Wicked Movie Adaptation
00:21:50
Speaker
Yeah, it's wild. I really and new things keep popping up, too. Like I saw ah like a little thing that they did. I think it was for the Tonight Show or something, some like little song that they did for us, which is really cute. But I was like, wow, they'd like really are working hard. Everything, everything. Have you seen it?
00:22:08
Speaker
i did I see. Yes, I saw what you did. Yeah, I did. And I actually am seeing again tomorrow. Oh, twice. Okay. It was my first I had never experienced wicked ever. I've never seen the musical. I love that that's happening for people. Yeah, i because I, I just I remember when I first heard about wicked years and years and years ago, I was like, Oh, I would love to see it. The opportunity just never came. Right, right. And I've never, but I'm not like a, I'm not, I don't hate musicals, but I'm also not upset. Like, you know, I'm not like a person who i'm where I'm like, Oh, a musical is happening. Like we have to go like it's um'm I'm kind of in the middle. Right, right, right. And so, yeah, so the opportunity never just came up, but I'm truly obsessed.
00:22:54
Speaker
I gotta tell you, i I saw it once a long time ago and then I took Bryan to go, it's my husband, I took my husband Bryan and we went earlier this week because I was like, I want you to see the show first. I was like, because I have a feeling the the movie is gonna be so fantastical yeah and it's like so big budget that like I wanted you to have at least some type of a hold on the story of what's going on because he was completely, yeah, yeah. And so we went and we did that and then we saw it last night and it was,
00:23:22
Speaker
My God, I mean. How do how do you even begin? like right because and Well, and I think that it's and this point keeps coming up, but like the fact that they didn't like they use CGI for some things, obviously, but that there was so much of it that was just built sets. Like they really put so much effort into building a world and creating an environment. And they planted like nine million tulips. And I was watching a video of the guy talking about that. It's insanity. acas that are Architectural Digest. Yes. It was so insane. Yeah. that my guy i That is something that I was like, I never would have ever considered would ever be done for a movie. Like no nine million to million tulips. No. And like the way that he talked about how they grow and how they had to but to shoot it at the right time, depending on when they they they grow and it was so. Because one's black blooms earlier than the other one. Right.
00:24:16
Speaker
It was mind-blowing. So if you if you are if you were listening to this and you have not seen it yet, there's I think his name is Nathan Crowley, I want to say. um He did ah a video. He's a set designer for um Wicked. And he did a video on Architectural Digest, where he talks about all this stuff. It's absolutely brilliant.
00:24:32
Speaker
Brilliant. And one thing that I was so impressed with too, because watching the movie, I knew that they had done a lot of practical sets, but I wasn't, I still like wasn't sure. I was like, what is like CGI? What isn't? And one thing that I wasn't sure about was the rotating library. yeah circular cases Those were all practical.
00:24:51
Speaker
Oh my god. And I was just like, that was one of my favorite parts of the movie. Yes, such a spectacle to see and to see the dancers dancing through that. I i mean, I mean, Jonathan Bailey, he's so handsome. like Oh my god, I consent. I i you You don't have to ask wherever we are. I already consent. I already consent. This is the proof that you need. And oh my God, I'm ready. yeah and Yeah. Anytime. Anytime, Mr. Bailey, I am yours. I do. Yeah. I love that for you. Absolutely. Like, but wow, like his dancing, his singing. Yeah. I mean, everyone, Cynthia just come. She's unbelievable. Wow. She really is unbelievable.
00:25:41
Speaker
Really? And the scene where they are dancing and so big again, i'm I'm a virgin. I'm new to all of this. Sure, i'm sure. So I think it's the Oz dust ball. Yes, that's right. I'll hold your hand through this. The the the scene where its got like her and Glinda become basically it's like their bonding moment. The way I cried.
00:26:02
Speaker
Oh my god, just tears. Right, right. Absolutely. Oh my god, it was so beautiful. and Yeah, so relatable. And it felt so in a way and I don't mean this in a negative way, but it felt drawn out. But like, I think intentionally because it just felt like when you are having those moments where you are trying so hard to connect with people.
00:26:25
Speaker
And it feels like when you're constantly made fun of and you're feeling othered, those moments last for forever. Oh, absolutely. and And feel like it, lasted you know, it might only be five minutes, but it feels like it lasts years. Yeah. And so they did a really good job of capturing that feeling. And oh, my God. Wow. No, it really it was it was truly, truly unbelievable. And it's it's kind of crazy because when we went to go see the show on Broadway,
00:26:55
Speaker
The first act, I think, topped out at like um an hour 20, I want to say. And so knowing that I was going into this and that this was going to be like two hours and 40 minutes, I was like, oh, I was like, what what could you have possibly done? Did you really change a lot? Have you added it? Like whatever. But what was so nice to it is that the pacing of it is so wonderful. And it's like, I think that.
00:27:17
Speaker
Because live theater sometimes that the pacing tends to be a little hurried because it really how long do you have people to sit down and do this you know every night and so usually like they shows max out at like two hours two hours ten twenty whatever yeah and.
00:27:32
Speaker
It just felt so like everything was able to have a breath and the orchestrations were gorgeous and just everything you saw on the set. I just really, I have nothing but good things to say about it. And now the press tour makes sense and seeing like Ariana and and Cynthia crying in every interview. And I'm like, I get it. I cried too. I totally get it, girls. I get it. I get it. Yeah, exactly. And something that I learned today when I was getting my haircut is that Wicked was a book before it became a musical. Correct by Gregory McGuire. And so I also think that they are using elements of that book in this as well. Oh, for sure. So that's probably also explains why this first movie is like two hours and 45 minutes. I'm assuming that the second movie will also be two hours and 45 minutes. Probably. And so, yeah, like truly. ah I've said this all week since I've seen it, and I stand by it. It's probably one of the best movies I've seen in the last 10 years.
00:28:27
Speaker
Oh, without a doubt. but Without a doubt. It is. I said this is cinema to me. Well, and also it's like, you know, ah what more does Hollywood need to see? Like these very much like women sort of identified very like creative. Like you think about this, you think about Barbie and it's like these are two of the biggest movies and look at the demographics they're serving. Hello. Right.
00:28:50
Speaker
you know, like, like, what more do you need? Like, everybody was, you know, trying to link it with Gladiator. And I'm like, No, can we not? Like, I'm sure I'm sure it's a lovely movie. But right. I'm sure it's lovely. I'm sure it's lovely. But that your lovely little Gladiator movie. Exactly. Have fun with your swords.
00:29:08
Speaker
Right, right, but Ariana Grande is not in that one. Right, exactly. and god She was so good. i She watching this, I was like this girl, and not that I didn't know this beforehand, but for anybody who maybe didn't wasn't aware, this girl, I know she's a pop star, she's a theater kid. ah You cannot change that. Yeah. like no matter No matter what else she does, pop star Ariana, she is at her heart, a theater kid.
00:29:31
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theater kid, and she's alluded that she's she's wanting to step more into this, whether it's acting or theater, she's ready to take that on. And she absolutely should. Absolutely. And she was hysterical. Yes. The timing was on. But I mean i but i've also i feel like I've seen that too, like even if you watch SNL, her comedic timing is It's perfect. right Yeah, it's so good. Yeah, I have nothing like I mean, the movie, everything is incredible. I'm so excited. I'm excited to see it it again, because I think that the first time seeing it, you know, again, it's my first time I'm kind of taking it all in and not knowing the story, not really knowing anything about the characters, not knowing the names of, you know, for for a second, I was like, what's shiz again? And I was like, right right, right, right. So now that I'm
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a bit more familiar, I'm able to, I'm going to be able to really take it all in and probably notice a lot of Easter eggs and details. And and know the the costumes. Oh my gosh. Did you see that video with the costume designer? talked to but through the costumes Oh, I have to send you that. It is absolutely brilliant. And it's like the thought, the detail, when you get to actually see them like in this video and like the thought that went into it, it's unbelievable.
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I can't wait. I was, ah that was not like, I was looking at the outfits and I was like, I would wear that. I'd wear that. I'd wear that. I love, I was like, this is absolutely dressed like Fierro on a day to day basis. Like a very gay Fierro. Absolutely. And that's gay or Fierro. yeah
00:31:03
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I love it. Yeah. No, it was. Wow. Wow. Well, so thinking then, because I know that you're obviously somebody who loves fashion too. yes So when do you recall and does it have to do with pop music really? Or is it like, when did you start taking an interest or noticing things in fashion? Because you put things together in a way that i I definitely do not. I mean, I'm very much like a sweatpants and hoodie girl. We're very different on that end. Wow. Well, thank first of all, thank you. That's a that i that's a great question.
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i You know, I think that I've always loved, I've loved costuming. You know, as a little kid, again, going back to the mystical stuff, I loved a flowing cloth. yes you but you had If someone had a cape or a long gown, I was sold. I was like, I don't care what it is, I'm in. Like I remember being- Literally. Like don't even do it. Tease me with a good time. Like I remember again, 1995 being about 10 years old, that Bram Stoker's Dracula movie was like a big sensation at the time. And I remember like, uh, was it Anthony Hopkins that played him? Yes. yeah And so I remember like like that big long red cape that I saw in all the promos. I never actually saw the movie, but I just remember seeing all the promos being like, I'm obsessed with this. So. Yeah. And and in a lot of obviously pop music and the visuals that tours and music videos and whatnot, I think that it's always just been a part of my fascination. And I just never felt like I could get into that. I don't know, for whatever reason, I just never felt like it was something that I could participate in. But I will say that in 2019,
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I had gotten my full-time job with with health benefits, something that I had been trying to get for like three years at that point. And um I had gone to, I finally went and had a physical for the first time in like God knows how long. And my physician at the time said, and I was 33 at the time, she was like,
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you know, you're was like, how did
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she word it? She said something along the lines of like, your cholesterol is a little high. She was like, I wouldn't worry about it. Now it's nothing to worry about at this moment. But she was like, you're not getting any younger. So she was like, my Yeah, and I was like, Oh, not reading the girls reading the girls. I was like, Excuse me. And she was like, you know, just she was like, I would just be mindful of it and just like, look into that now versus waiting 1015 years on the road.
00:33:48
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And I took that at heart. I was like, okay, like, sure, why not? So I met with a dietician, I promise there's a point to this, that I met with a dietician who um at that time I was just like, you know, this is what my doctor said. Also, I was like, I do work out regularly, but I don't necessarily see the results that I'm hoping for, for the amount of workouts that I do. So I was like, can you help me out? It was my friend Kara. She set me up with ah ah like a nutrition plan. And from there, I ended up losing weight and ended up losing over 30 pounds.
00:34:27
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And so because I lost so much weight, I'm five. So first of all, I'm five seven. And so I'm i'm a shorty. And so losing 30 pounds on my frame is like very noticeable and a lot. So I actually went through not one, but two completely new wardrobe changes because I had I had gone from like a 30. I was like a borderline thirty three, thirty four waist and pants down to a twenty eight.
00:34:54
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ah So yeah, so I went through and that was over the quote that was over the course of like nine months. so So to answer your question, that's when I started taking the opportunity to be like, you know what, if I have to buy new clothes, right I'm gonna buy new clothes. oh you know yeah So that's when I just kind of started experimenting with different looks and I look back to five, six years ago and I was like, yeah, you know, I probably wouldn't do that now. We all have those. we all have but But I loved where my head's at. I just have always loved being a little off center. Like I've never, I'm not a t-shirt person. In fact, I don't own a t-shirt right now. ah wow um Yeah, I don't, I i don't know why. like or
00:35:45
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Yeah, I think that's the things that I like. I wish I don't. I personally don't think that I look good in t-shirts like what you're wearing right now. I don't think I would look good in personally, but I don't know. Yeah, just it's I just my but now my my closet, you can't see it currently. It's literally to my right here, and it is bursting at the seams.
00:36:10
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It's like, it's like stop, but essentially. um So yeah, but... So then yeah what do you think or what would you pick if you had to, I'll even say like last 10 years, like one of your favorite fashion choices in pop culture?
00:36:28
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Do you know the first thing that came to mind when you said that um is the Alexander McQueen looks in the Bad Romance video by Lady Gaga? Yes. By Lady Gaga as if and like... but that That other Bad Romance song. ah You know the other one. The but the lesser known one. um um God. But I...
00:36:54
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I remember watching that video, I mean, truly talk about a song that not only reinvigorated pop music, but reinventated reinvigorated music videos, reinvigorated performance art, like it just really, that really, that music video just really just exploded into the world, right? And... um Girl, we're 15 years ago, like last week.
00:37:17
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Like what the fuck? Like what the fuck? Where is time even gone? I don't know, but it's like. How dare her. Well, but 15 years to the day, you know, here we are, disease.
00:37:30
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disease banger. Live for it. I live for it. You know what I really want? And I don't know if we're going to get this, but I would love a nine inch nails remix. ah Oh, absolutely. Would that not just be absolutely sickening? Yes. Yes. My God. Yes. Like I don't know who's dick that I have to. so But I will do it if we can get Trezor Trezor on that. Come on. Well, because I got to be honest, I haven't really. Well, I haven't been searching, so I don't know, but I haven't been seeing at least a lot of remixes of disease. And it's kind of like I don't know how that works as a dance song like in my mind. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure. And so that's that's that's a good point. I know that she's done two live versions, the antidote and the I forgot what the other one was. The antidote and the poison. Yeah. Yes, the poison. The poison. So one was like more piano and one was more like rock style. um So but yeah, I'm I'm she's been a little like she's been a little secretive. Well, I mean, I kind of want to know like what's going on. Like, yeah, you gave us like this one song and now like, is there more? Is there going to be like I know there's going to be more like we know there's going to be like things happening. Obviously, we're in a new era. Yeah. But
00:38:47
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Come on, Mama. mind The children are hungry. Well, you know, what's interesting, though, too, is releasing a song like Disease, which is like this dark pot kind of spooky pop vibes.
00:38:59
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literally just a few days before Halloween and right before we got into the holiday season. True. Interesting choice on that. It's almost it's interesting, too. And then also, too, I remember when she had ah posted on Instagram that like piece of paper that kind of showed the Joker musical schedule and then had the, you know, but had blacked out the release date for the LG seven lead single.
00:39:25
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It's almost like she anticipated knowing that Joker was not going to do well in theaters or something. The way that that rollout list kind of was just because it was so close to that. Right, right, right. Especially now knowing that there was the Harlequin like surprise album that was not included in that promo sheet. So I don't know. I don't. Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah. Did you see Joker too?
00:39:52
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I did. You did. What did you think? It wasn't my so it wasn't my favorite. It's also I so I also have to say I never saw the first one. So gotcha. So I didn't really know much about the storyline. So I will say Gaga was great. I thought I thought everyone's performances were great. I think just storyline wise, it just didn't I remember leaving the theater and I was like, not a lot really happened. It's true. That is true. And I think, you know, i I liked it, but like I didn't, I seen the first one and to be fair, I don't love Joaquin Phoenix's Joker. So I love the first one. And to me, I'm like, well, all right, we're going to do this again. I was like, it's got to be at least better for me because you know, you made it Lady Gaga. So that's got to be a plus no matter how you slice it. Right. and
00:40:49
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It didn't really like, everybody kept like, I can't believe it's a musical. I can't believe it's a musical. And I'm like, I don't, it's barely a musical, like having seen it. Right. It's like, there's music in it. Yeah. And I think, and I think that that's also maybe where are some of the, cause I went into it thinking being like, it's a musical. Right. Right. And it's not your traditional musical.
00:41:13
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No, not at all. And that's what I mean. Like, I think that when we left Brian said he's like, I could see this being like ah a cult classic or like a fan favorite, like a fan. And I said, I think so too, because I feel like there's too much like with the internet being the internet, you know, and people just so obsessed with things flopping and failing and whatever. Right? Yeah. I just and also I think because DC is a is like rebooting the whole storyline of everybody. I think they're redoing like the whole DC universe or something. So I think they're finding ways to sort of end every storyline, yeah sort of like restart everything. But yeah, I don't know. I really, I didn't, everybody hated it a lot more than I disliked it.
00:41:53
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Yeah, I and liked it. It was okay. But like I didn't like people had like visceral reactions to it. And I'm like, it's not that serious. Like I thought hey very well. Yeah, it is not that serious. And I feel like I could dedicate an entire probably several episodes to this the the love of what you just said, like, watching things fail, watching things flop,
00:42:17
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Well, I think there's also, wait, before we even do that, I think that there's a we're a little bit too quick in society, or at least for you know those of us that are chronically online, how we use the word flop, because things are certain things are relative. like I can understand like an album may or may not do as well as you had hoped, but right what constitute a flop in the modern era? i don't I have a hard time with because there's nothing that I've really seen any of the pop girls or any of the big ones really do that like hardcore flops maybe like I can think of Sorry, I'm sure she's very nice But like when I think of like the Normani album that maybe that flopped like that did not do well to me like I know I'm sure she's very nice She's a lovely girl, but I just yeah, I still don't think she's got the right team around her but I
00:43:07
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She doesn't. as She doesn't. Like, I'm sorry. Like, you can't be that talented and just nothing is being, something's wrong there. That whole rollout was a mess. Right. That's what I mean. Like, that to me, I feel like that was a failed effort. So if you want to say flop, even though I don't love the word flop, that to me, I guess would fall under a flop type category.
00:43:25
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by some of the people are just like, flop Tina, flop this, fla and I'm like, this is not all, these are not flops. Like I need y'all to just, you know, whatever. Right. Because it's like, it's like, it's, it's people talk about flops in the sense of like commercial failure, but then they also talk about like quality failure as well. Right. Right. like right that and And that's the thing is that like, there's a lot of, a lot of my favorite albums don't necessarily live up to the commercial success. Right. Sawayama, for example. And then also,
00:43:56
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you know, if you are an independent artist, or you're a lesser known artist, well, of course, your album is not going to debut at number one with 500,000 copies. So like, that's just not going to happen. So using this word flop as if it's just kind of like, there's got to be a sliding scale. There's a sliding scale, there has to be. And to your point too, we are so quick to even judge these things right where we don't let it kind of, we don't sit with it. We don't settle with it. I think there's people like you, like myself, like Jeff, like my friend, Jesse, where we are such fans of music. We know our tastes and we know kind of like we, I think we better than others know like whether or not we're going to like something. I would say the average person
00:44:45
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first of all, is not that good and does not have the taste, uh, elevated taste levels that we have, but they also don't care. Right. Like right they just don't care. It just doesn't matter to them. Like it does to us. It doesn't. Yeah. Like it, we live in a world where people are always like, I don't know if you ever hear this, but people are like, I'm not good with names. I don't know who the, I don't know who sings it. And I'm right and and i' so that are like,
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And I'm like, what do you mean? Prince? You don't know Prince? Yeah, right. Exactly. I'm like, what do you mean you don't know track three end confessions on a dance floor? right It changed my life. ah wait So, OK, so now thinking so now we're this I don't know when this is going to come out, but now we're this being recorded on November 25th. So basically we're at the end of the year. We're about to be in December. Yeah.
00:45:32
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For all of the albums, since we love to talk about an album, for all of the albums that have come out this year, what has been the one that you have revisited the most? Revisited the most? Yeah. Great question. I i would say I'm going to be that that gay and say Brat has been my most revisited album. Oh, wow. It's definitely one of mine, but I didn't think that for you.
00:45:56
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Yeah brat brat and it's remix album to be completely honest. I have to sit more with it. I feel like there was so much because I had my whole thing going on with it at Peloton too and like we did like a brat ride and like there was a shout out to your shout out to your DJ ride. Thank you Cody. Yes, that I have not sweat that much.
00:46:18
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quite literally. And I was like, it's I
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was like ironic. It was like, you know, sweat tour and everything. But like, literally just soaked. Well, and I have to say the last like five minutes, I was like, we're just going for it. I was like, just push them right to the end. I was like, and let's hope they don't have a stroke doing it. Because it gets real intense. I might have. And that's fine. I'm okay with it. Yeah, but yeah, I because and I am i going to be that gay where I'm going to say that I think mine is actually cowboy Carter.
00:46:43
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Love. And that would be my site that would be my second. and that And I think it's that and Dua Lipa's radical optimism, actually. Oh, I'm glad that she is a fan. and
00:46:56
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No, I say that. I love Dua. Unfortunately, radical optimism did not connect with me. I've been using that term a lot lately. It's growth. Growth. It's growth. It is growth. And it did not connect with me the way that I wanted it to. You were not the intended, actually you are the intended demographic. I am absolutely. But here's the thing, and I don't know if it's necessarily her fault, and we've talked about this before, but I will say it again.
00:47:22
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I blame the very early publications, calling and I'll never I want to say it might have been Rolling Stone that called it like a UK pop dance tribute to rave culture, yeah or some shit like that. And then followed it up with by saying that it's influenced by primal scream, right? And who was the other massive attack?
00:47:46
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I didn't hear that but on this album. Personally, I it may be in little doses here and there, but like nothing that would warrant that description. Right. And so that to me, I think that I was frustrated because I was like these publications and and whatnot create this like kind of this falsehoods that almost it's almost kind of like ah I don't know if it was the intention, but it's ah almost kind of like you are intending this to fail because the album unfortunately was not as commercially successful as its predecessor. Which I'm actually kind of like, and I feel like they sort of dropped the ball here. Like they really like just kind of had her do like, what is it? One, two, she did three music videos. I,
00:48:37
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Illusion, I think, was the best music video. Oh, yeah. Training season up until the tour had the best live performance when she opened that. What was that? They have VMAs? The the Grammys. I think gram she did it at the Grammys and then she did it again at, I want to say the Brits. Right. But I feel like that was the most disappointing music video for me was training season. I was like, I don't know what we're doing. But and then just like immediately went on tour, but ah well i There's like ah quite a few songs on the album that I've gone back to. like i love I obviously love training season. I love the um these walls, and Falling Forever is like one of my favorite songs. Definitely going to be on my Spotify wrapped. Ooh, I love that. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did like Falling Forever. I'd liked Maria. um it's And it's not like the and i liked end of an era. I liked that one a lot.
00:49:27
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um It's not that I didn't like the album. It's just that I had this expectation that it was going to be something completely different than what it was. So that when I heard it, I was just kind of like, Oh, so maybe I need to revisit it. And I'm sure I will at some point, right into into yours a bit like it's the best album I've ever heard. Wait, so who are you rooting for for album of the year?
00:49:47
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Oh, my God. So that's a great question. So and I'm going to be getting into this. Well, technically, this will be the ah next episode that where we'll get into more deep with this. But I'm I am. I don't know if I've ever seen such a stacked album of the year category ever like it's kind of wild. It is really, really crazy. I personally.
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i I would be happy if Charlie or Beyonce got it. I cannot guarantee that either of them are gonna get it. right I can see a case for any one of those nominees to get, I could see someone make an argument that any one of them will win. I don't think there's ah one album that's like, oh, this is absolutely getting it. like I can make a case. I think the one that is least likely to get it is gonna be s Sabrina Carpenter.
00:50:43
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I just, you know, I i really wanna love that album more than I did. I feel like that was probably one of my most disappointing ones this year. Yeah. I think it's i think and i think it has little to do with her except that more to do with the, and I think we might've actually talked about this on one of the older podcast episodes where it's like this sort of,
00:51:10
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slower, dance, pop, like disco-y type tracks. like I'm a little bit over it now. Right, yeah. It's the espresso of it all. like I need to... Yeah. We gotta move on for a little bit.
00:51:21
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We got to move on. And for me, I see, I really liked taste, taste. I am expecting taste and Bedcam to actually be some after, after I kind of like kind of. Bedcam is my favorite. Bedcam is my favorite. I opened up my last DJ ride with Cody with it because I was like, this is my favorite. I live. Yes, you did. Also complete side note really quick. Congratulations on your new remix. for Oh, thank you. ni Thank you. Yes. I'm still waiting for release date.
00:51:45
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So good. I did that ride last week and also another one that kicked my ass. Also just the selections, just in general on that ride were so great. So yeah, no, thank you no i'm super excited. I love that one. Yeah, it's so good. Um, but you know, the Grammys don't seem to award bubblegum pop really. And I would say that she's the most bubblegum pop of the bunch. for sure And so, but I don't know. I don't know.
00:52:14
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I, again, I would love brat or Kalba Carter to win. I would also be happy if chapel one. I think that would be kind of cool for sure. For sure. But who's going to get it? I could see, I could see Andre 3000 getting it. I would be very surprised. I'm actually very surprised that he's nominated for album of the year because it's such like a, it's not a bad album. It's a great album, but it's such a sparse.
00:52:35
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Like it yeah it's just so meditative. I haven't heard it, so I can't speak on it. but I could, again, I'm seeing it from the like point of view of like back one that one year. right right right right Same with like Jacob Collier. Jacob Collier, I have listened to his album. um I love the song Witness Me.
00:52:54
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yeah that all Yeah, fantastic song makes me cry. Um, but the thing with Jacob, I mean, watching the video of him producing bridge over troubled water with Troy Kelly in her bedroom, unbelievable, and the way that they layered those vocals, like I will be like I could see it going to him because of how just hands-on he is with the production and everything that he does with his own music. And the Grammys love to award people like that. And and rightfully so, and I get it. like i I think I in the next episode, you'll we'll hear about this more, but I was like, you know, I, I understand. I don't, how do I say this? I don't think people should be punished for having dozens and dozens and dozens of collaborators for their album. I agree. We don't, we don't, we don't punish movies for that. I mean, obviously movies are created and no one bats an eye at the teams and teams and teams of people that create it. Correct. But I also understand how the Grammys.
00:53:58
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want to award someone who works on an album with minimal collaborators. It just feels like it needs to, the the voting board needs to be updated as far as like generationally. Yeah. You know, I think that there's just, I don't know, it feels like there's a lot of like old guards sort of judging the new. Yeah. I don't know. um Yeah. Who do you want to win? I mean,
00:54:24
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I would be fine. Obviously I would love for Beyonce to win because I think that that like when I have to go like underground on the subway and I don't have any service like whenever I go through that's that's when I go to cowboy Carter because I'm like I immediately will always want to listen to this and I feel like I was the same way we're Renaissance. Why'd you have to bring up the subway? We still don't have it. Come on chapel.
00:54:47
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ah I mean, you know, I feel like Taylor's album will be nominated for the next 12 years for Tortured Focus Department. And we will be tortured. And we will be tortured. Sorry to all my friends who are Swifties. I love you. We love you. We absolutely love you. We love you. I just don't think, realistic, real talk about how it does not deserve album of the year. No, I don't think it's, no, no. I would love it. I would be fine also. I think like you said, Beyonce, Brat.
00:55:15
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Chapel and I think Billy would be the ones that I would root for the most out of all of them and Billy's album is good I like it a lot. There's some sec. There's some songs on there that I really like um The album as a whole it's good, but it's you know, they're like I said Charlie or Beyonce I think would be my top two. Yeah sure, but I do I'm rooting for Chapel success as well. Yeah Yeah, see she could sweep. We don't we don't know I, yeah, I really don't know. It's a pretty stacked, I mean, you look at the big four, I mean, record of the year is stacked, song of the year is stacked, even best new artists, but it's kind of wild. I don't know, we're gonna see, and now we have a while to wait for that.
00:55:54
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Right. Yeah. So we'll find out. We will find out. Who knows? Who knows? So now, wait, on this new one, our are the new podcasts, are we still doing the songs? We are absolutely going to finish the episode with the famous, famous segment, Songs We Don't Talk About Enough.
00:56:14
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Because the thing is, is that we, you know, we love all the hits, right? We love, we love the hits. We love songs that people are known for the classics, but there are so many amazing songs that fly under the radar, whether they are an album track, whether they maybe are a single that flops to bring back the word lopped um or, you know, whether it's a B side or a bonus track somewhere, or maybe it's even unreleased.
00:56:44
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um I'm trying to find my my Spotify where I was putting all of these songs. Oh, I love that. Like all of the songs we don't talk about enough. yeah Perfect. um Yeah, I was to say, if you have one, by all means, or I can go. No, you go first because I have to find it because I'm not prepared. OK, excellent. So today I was this is going to be kind of crazy, but I was going through. I don't even know how I even came across this today, actually, and I texted Jeff about it.
00:57:15
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um I was going through my Apple music and was just kind of wondering if the song was even on and it's not. I guess it's part of like ah one of those like DJ mixes, but it's not like officially on it.
00:57:29
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there was a song in the year 2000 that Usher released that was supposed to be the lead single to an album called All About You. And the song is called Pap Ya Collar. oh And the song didn't necessarily take off the way that they had hoped. And also there, this was an an album that suffered from a lot of leaks. And so therefore,
00:57:54
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They ended up canceling the single released shortly after it had come out and canceled the album, All About You, and which was then later kind of rebranded into his 8701 album that ended up being huge the following year.
00:58:09
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um But the song Poppy Holler, it was a Shakespeare, Candy Burris song. Shakespeare. And I fucking loved it. I remember hearing it in tandem on the radio. I think it was back to back. It was Poppy Holler. And then it was Spice Girls Holler. So just Poppy Holler.
00:58:31
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pop your holler baby like just to kind of put you into that like sonic landscape like those two songs back to back. So anyway, that is my song that we don't talk about enough. ah Canceled flop lead single. I believe he did release it overseas still. I think it's like a bonus track on the 8701 album. Oh, like overseas, right. But I should put it on streaming in the US for the two people that want it.
00:58:55
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Well, mine is on streaming and I'm going to go back to, I guess you would say this, this album, the album, I believe flopped. I think the song definitely flopped, but I love her. She is a child of destiny. The one Miss Michelle Williams. Hello, heartbreak.
00:59:11
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Oh my God. I love that song so much because I know that everybody was like, oh, we, we you know, we, was it where we break the dawn? That was the bigger one. And that was cute too. And there was some cute remixes and moto blanco and all that. Yeah. But hello, heartbreak. I thought was so interesting at the time. And I'm like, listen to all this technology. This is the future of music. Michelle Williams is the future of music. Nothing says technology and future of music like Michelle Williams. I love that.
00:59:41
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And I'm so happy for her because she's on Broadway now and death becomes her. Yes. Oh, my gosh. Did did you see the photo of her with Beyonce and Michelle yes backstage? Yes. Yes. I'm like, I need to go see the show. But um but yeah, and I really like I wanted her to sort of have that moment because I feel like all of her solo stuff is always like gospel or something like that. Right. Yeah. I wanted her to so to succeed in this type of music. But I fear that only seven gay men followed this and I am one of them.
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And you know what? Let's celebrate that. right Right. We are the true disciples. Absolutely. Speaking of gospel. Absolutely. You are doing the Lord's work by letting people know about Hello Heartbreak. Absolutely. Name another person in 2024 mentioning that song. Right. I one would say it's homophonic.
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just saying, and we're gonna bring it all welcome to homophonic everyone. I'm so excited for this journey. I thank you so much for being a part of the like the unofficial first episode, if you will the introductory episode, there's gonna be so much more to come. I can't wait to go down this journey with you. Also, really quick before we wrap up, I want to shout you out over actually coming up with the name homophonic. Oh, thank you.
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because you and I had a conversation, gosh, earlier this year, I don't even remember what it was. And I was talking with you about how you know, I was thinking I was going to be branching out on my own and doing my own thing. And I was like, I'm not really sure what it's going to be called. And you just Just in that instant without even thinking without skipping a beat you said Homophonic and the chills that I got I'm not even kidding. I was like that is it. Yeah, that is it. Yeah but because you know what you're so you stand so strong in your identity and I feel like if anybody was gonna own a a Phrase with such weight it was it would have to be somebody who can carry it
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yeah Thank you. So I appreciate that. I appreciate that. So here we are and buckle up. Hold onto your butts, everybody. It's going to be fun. Yay. Yay. Thank you so much for being a part of this. And we will talk to you soon, everyone. check Peace out. hi