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This week we dive head-first into the 4th LP from British indie darlings PALE WAVES: Smitten. Across our track-by-track, we discuss our long history with PW, the tenured quantity (and quality) of their output, and how this album stacks against their others.
ALSO discussed: CHARLI XCX & TROYE SIVAN's Sweat Tour, MARINA's upcoming album (& new poetry book), and new music from CHAPPELL ROAN!
At the SPA: JADE (Fantasy), ADDISON RAE (Aquamarine), OLLY ALEXANDER (Cupid’s Bow), REBECCA BLACK (Trust!), ROSÈ & BRUNO MARS (APT.), BETTY WHO (Wings ft. e.l.f. Cosmetics), ARIA WOOD (Swimming), LADY GAGA (Disease), ADÈLA (Superstar) and SKYE RILEY & NAOMI SCOTT (Blood on White Satin).
NEXT WEEK: We're off but when we return its time to celebrate 15 Years of The Fame Monster by LADY GAGA!
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This week is a big one as we wade into the deep waters of MAGDALENA BAY's 2nd LP Imaginal Disk. Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the journey from Mercurial World to now, the rich nature of our main character True, and the journey the titular disk takes her on.
ALSO discussed: some hot hot tea in a DP Blind Item, the BRAT remix album & Kylie Minogue's Tension tour!
At the SPA: ST. LUCIA (Fear of Falling), HYRA (Gone Girl), GREGORY DILLON (Burning Kisses), KELLY LEE OWENS (Love You Got), LOREEN (Warning Signs), DOM DOLLA & TOVE LO (Cave), BAD SUNS (Lovefool), MOODY JOODY (Ground Control), and CHARLI XCX & ARIANA GRANDE (Sympathy is a Knife remix).
NEXT WEEK: 'Smitten' by PALE WAVES!
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This week we bravely go where few men seem to have gone before.... a listening party of KATY PERRY's new album 143. Throughout our track-by-track we discuss the marred rollout of this record, the lyrics that left us wanting, the glimpses of greatness we know KP is KPable of and of course- the choice to include Dr. Puke.
ALSO discussed: BETTY WHO's 10-year-anniversary showcase for Take Me When You Go.
At the SPA: TOVE LO (Jealousy [From the Vault]), LAUREL (Kissing With the Top Down), JOJO (Porcelain), ALLIE X (Bong Voyage), SYD SILVAIR (Fugitive), LAUREN MAYBERRY (Something in the Air), JOE JONAS (What This Could Be), LISA (Moonlit Floor), CASCADA (Studio 54) and GRIFF (Apple [Triple J Like A Version]).
Next week: Imaginal Disk by MAGDALENA BAY!
(sorry for the l8 post life got crazy for a second <3 u guys mean it)
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This week is one Quincy's been waiting eons for- the deep dive into LIGHTS' 3rd LP ' Little Machines' in celebration of its 10-year anniversary. Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the record's rich themes of nostalgia and transition, the euphoric sounds of steady synths and LIGHTS' road traveled since this week's entry in the SPA!
ALSO discussed: LADY GAGA's Joker: Folie à Deux companion album 'Harlequin' and MARINA's self-leaked M6 tracklist!
At the SPA: AVA MAX (Spot a Fake), KYLIE MINOGUE (Lights Camera Action), SELF ESTEEM (Love Second Music First), SNOW WIFE (Crazy), ROSE GRAY (Switch), LULU SIMON (Not Crying Anymore), LIGHTS (Damage), ESSY (Dream Come True), RAHIM C REDCAR (Deep Holes), and NOTD & MAIA WRIGHT (Lover Online).
Next week: '143' by KATY PERRY!
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This week is a no-brainer as we take a dive into one of the biggest albums of the year - SABRINA CARPENTER's 'Short n' Sweet'. Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss our history with Sabrina, the stratospheric impression 'Espresso' has left on her career, and of course we attempt to narrow down our favorite tracks.
ALSO discussed: LADY GAGA's 'Harlequin' aka LG 6.5, CARLY RAE JEPSEN's engagement (and what it means for that rumored self-titled album) KATY PERRY's 143, and the lingering absence of new BETTY WHO music.
At the SPA: TATE MCRAE (It's Ok I'm Ok), THE WEEKND (Dancing in the Flames), SLAYYYTER (No Comma), ADÉLA (Homewrecked), JADE (Midnight Cowboy), ALY & AJ (Sirens), FKA TWIGS (Eusexua), THE ACES (The Magic), PALE WAVES (Kiss Me Again) and CHARLI XCX & TROYE SIVAN (Talk Talk Remix).
NEXT WEEK: 10 Years of 'Little Machines' by LIGHTS!
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This week is one the indie-darlings have been waiting for: our deep dive into the depths of 'Sugar Water', the debut LP from MAUDE LATOUR! Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the long road to this first album, the MARINA-tinged excellence of 'Cursed Romantics', and how Maude's philosophical studies informed the record.
ALSO discussed: MARINA's M6 collaborator CJ BARAN, Pop Star Academy's KAYSEYE, THE WEEKND's new album & single, & MAGDALENA BAY's 'Imaginal Disk'.
At the SPA: HALSEY (Ego), MADELLINE (Crazy Bitch), RALPH (Stacy's Mom), MIMI WEBB (Erase You), LE SSERAFIM (1-800-hot-n-fun) and DEVAULT, TOMMY GENESIS & SLAYYYTER (Never Like Me).
NEXT WEEK: 'Short n' Sweet' by SABRINA CARPENTER!
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This week is one we've been counting down to since the dawn of this podcast as we submit ourselves to the second LP from indie-pop masters MUNA: Saves the World. Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the heavy-hitting themes of the record, which of these songs have made it onto our all-time playlists and touch on our rich personal lores with some of these here tracks...
ALSO discussed: SABRINA CARPENTER's 'Short & Sweet', LADY GAGA's LG7 (& those Joker reviews), and we oh-so-bravely wade into the waters of CHAPPELL ROAN discourse.
At the SPA: Pop Star Academy's KATSEYE (Debut), MOTHICA (The Reaper), LULU SIMON (Feel Better), SYD SYLVAIR (Featherlight), FLO (Bending My Rules), FLORRIE (Swimming Pool), ST. LUCIA (Falling Asleep), and ALLIE X & EMPRESS OF (Galina).
NEXT WEEK: 'Sugar Water' by MAUDE LATOUR!
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This week is one for the gays as we dive into the brand new EP 'Can I Be Honest?' from indie-pop songstress (we're all together on this?) ZEE MACHINE! Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss Zee's many notable influences (several of our favs), the stages of a breakup as tracked by these songs, and Quincy's Bonnie McKee moment at the EP release party in LA!
ALSO discussed: MAUDE LATOUR's 'Sugar Water' and the latest in the CHAPPELL ROAN discourse (yes, we're tired too).
At the SPA: HALSEY (Lonely Is the Muse), ALLIE X (Weird World ft. SIDEWALKS AND SKELETONS), PALE WAVES (Gravity), MOODY JOODY (Velvet Connection ST. LUCIA Remix), KATIE GAVIN, (Casual Drug Use), LISA (New Woman ft. ROSALÍA), MADISON ROSE (Haus), LAGOONA BLOO (Can't Make You Love Me), and LADY GAGA & BRUNO MARS (Die With A Smile).
Next week: we're off but when we return... MUNA 'Saves the World'!
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This week, we had a big idea ourselves!! We decided to submit to REMI WOLF's second LP 'Big Ideas' in our first-ever Remi ep! So Hello! Let's celebrate that! Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the album's studio origins, its themes of fame, sex & beyond, and we get into the very- er- specific name Remi has given to her stans.
ALSO discussed: MARINA's new M6 snippet, the everlasting BETTY WHO supremacy, and our hopes for the rest of the year in music (RIHANNA, LAURA MVULA, DAGNY & THE DOMMY's!
At the SPA: KATY PERRY (Lifetimes), ADDISON RAE (Diet Pepsi), SMALLPOOLS (Socio-Empath), BLEACHERS (Wild Heart), YO GABBA GABBA (I am the Wind ft. BETTY WHO), ESSY (Dream Come True), and NOTD & CORBYN BESSON (Panic).
NEXT WEEK: 'Can I Be Honest?' from ZEE MACHINE!
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This week is one the grifters have been waiting years for: a deep dive into the debut album from pop songstress GRIFF: 'Vertigo'. Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss our history with Griff (including Quincy's controversial opinion on her SIGRID collab), the non-chronological journeys of a breakup and how the only true closure requires accepting there will never be closure... or something like that.
ALSO discussed: 10 years of BETTY WHO's debut album 'Take Me When You Go' and our bets on the horse that'll win the race to score the world's first CHAPPELL ROAN feature.
At the SPA: CHARLI XCX (Guess ft. BILLIE EILISH), BLUSHER (Overglow), MAUDE LATOUR (Whirlpool), CARLITA & SG LEWIS (The Moment), PALE WAVES (Glasgow), FLO (Check), FABIANA PALLADINO (Deeper), OSTON (Burton St.) and MAGDALENA BAY (Tunnel Vision).
NEXT WEEK: 'Big Ideas' by REMI WOLF!
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It's time for part 2 of our AURORA deep dive! Throughout the second half our track-by-track, we get into the thick of some of the album's harsher moments & unpack what messages lie behind the poetic lyricism before narrowing down our top tracks across the entire record.
ALSO discussed: KATY PERRY's incoming "lead" single 'Lifetimes', LADY GAGA's LG7 tease, & the mystery behind BRITNEY SPEARS & HALSEY's 'Lucky' debacle.
At the SPA: REMI WOLF (Soup), ZEE MACHINE (Killshot), ROSE GRAY (Free) MISTERWIVES (End of My Rope ft. BETTY WHO), HALSEY (Lucky), CALVIN HARRIS & ELLIE GOULDING (Free), KISSISSIPPI (Smaller Half), GWEN STEFANI & ANDERSON .PAAK (Hello World), THOMSTON (Upstate), and VANESSA WILLIAMS, TRIXIE MATTEL & LION BABE (Bop!).
NEXT WEEK: 'Vertigo' by GRIFF!
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This week, we begin our (topically Olympic-sized) dive into AURORA's new album 'What Happened to the Heart?' as we discuss the first half of this monumental album. Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the album's rich themes, the textured soundscapes that vary across the record and and of course we attempt to glean just wtf this girlie is trying to tell us.
ALSO discussed: CHARLI XCX & CHAPPELL ROAN's co-sponsored effort for Kamala 2024 & Drag Race Canada's continued influence on our music libraries!
At the SPA: ALESSIA CARA (Dead Man), ALICE CHATER (Don't Let My Boyfriend Get In Your Way), KATIE GAVIN (Aftertaste), MADISON BEER (15 Minutes), SKAAR (Something Like This ft. DAGNY), JOE JONAS (Work It Out), ESSY (Fire Alive), and JADE (Angel of my Dreams).
NEXT WEEK: Part 2 of our Aurora deep dive!
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This week is maybe the biggest of the summer as we take on the soundtrack of the season itself - 'Brat' by CHARLI XCX! Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the delicate persona that lies beneath the shiny veneer of the titular 'brat' character, how the industry at large shaped the record AND how Charli has mastered the art of the remix.
ALSO discussed: MARINA's album 6 news and solo tunes from MUNA's KATIE GAVIN!
At the SPA: KESHA (Joyride), KATY PERRY (Woman's World), MAGDALENA BAY (Image), MADISON ROSE (Falling Outta Heaven), GRIFF (Tears for Fun), ISAAC DUNBAR (Take It Slow), MISTERWIVES (Organized Chaos), DANI SYLVIA (Somebody Who People Leave), and KYLIE MINOGUE (My Oh My ft. TOVE LO & BEBE REXHA).
NEXT WEEK: 'What Happened to the Heart?' by AURORA!
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This week, we're diving headfirst into the album those of us in the know (Hayden) have been waiting a decade for - BONNIE MCKEE's instant 2010 throwback classic 'Hot City'! Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the record's arduous rollout, the industry's abysmal treatment of Ms. Mckee, as well as her impact on the sound of the pop landscape at large.
ALSO DISCUSSED: MUNA's sickening new live album from The Greek, DEBBII DAWSON's EP 'How To Be Human', the MINOGUE sisters' everlasting impact on the culture, and the tea-up of KESHA vs. KATY PERRY.
At the SPA: LISA (Rockstar), PARIS HILTON & RINA SAWAYAMA (I'm Free), PEACH PRC (Touchy Subject), SNOW WIFE (Pool), MAUDE LATOUR (Comedown), TINASHE (Getting No Sleep), LIL NAS X (Here We Go!), and JESSIE WARE & ROMY (Life You Up).
NEXT WEEK: 'Brat' by CHARLI XCX!
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This week, we're swimming through the nordic oceans to take a closer look at one of our go-to Scandinavian pop queens DAGNY and her latest "mini-album" 'Elle'. Throughout our track-by-track (complete with a few extra additions from yours truly), we discuss the album's at-times tortuous rollout, the changes made to the era after it was already on its way and what we hope for the next two chapters in the trilogy.
ALSO discussed: ALLIE X's 'Girl With No Face' tour, MUNA's upcoming live album, & Hayden's experience with AURORA's 'What Happened to the Heart?'.
At the SPA: CHARLI XCX (The Girl, So Confusing Version with LORDE), GRIFF (Anything), BROZE AVERY (Heatwave), ADAM LAMBERT (Cvnty), PVRIS & LIGHTS (The Blob), VINCINT (Love Me Tonight ft. BETTY WHO), and PURPLE DISCO MACHINE & CHROMEO (Paradise).
NEXT WEEK: 'Hot City' by BONNIE MCKEE!
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This week, we're winding back the clock to 2014 when our perennial fav boy band BAD SUNS released their debut LP 'Language & Perspective'! Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the mature themes of this record written by high-schoolers, the speed at which it's aged (see: molasses level), the existential crises (plural) abound the album, and how this debut contextualizes the records that came after it.
ALSO discussed: KATY PERRY's confidently sexy new single 'Woman's World' (and the fire it lit online) as well as JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE's recent trouble with the law (stream Criminal by Britney Spears)!
At the SPA: HALSEY (The End), METTE (Bet), SAY NOW (Bitch Get Out My Car), FLORRIE (The Lost Ones), REMI WOLF (Motorcycle), PALE WAVES (Perfume), ST. LUCIA (Back To You), and TOVE LO & SG LEWIS (Heat).
NEXT WEEK: 'Elle' by DAGNY!
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This week, we're dialing the alt-pop phasers to FIRE as we submit ourselves to BILLIE EILISH and discuss her 3rd LP 'Hit Me Hard and Soft'. Throughout our track-by-track, we dive into the textured nature of the tracks, the journey they take you on in the order they are presented, the idea of writing an oral lesbian anthem with your brother, and of course, we attempt to determine our favorite tracks!
ALSO discussed: KATY PERRY's *interesting* rollout choices thus far and new albums from CHARLI XCX (Brat), DAGNY (Elle), & AURORA (What Happened to the Heart?).
At the SPA: SABRINA CARPENTER (Please Please Please, ADAM LAMBERT (Wet Dream), AURORA (To Be Alright), KISSISSIPPI (Last Time), GRACIE ABRAMS (Close to You), RAYE (Genesis), and ORVILLE PECK, KYLIE MINOGUE & DIPLO (Midnight Ride).
NEXT WEEK: 10 Years of BAD SUNS' debut 'Language & Perspective'.
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This week, we're diving headfirst into the mother lake (the one just outside the British Channel) to submit ourselves to the 3rd LP from english pop songstress DUA LIPA, 'Radical Optimism'! Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the album's peculiar rollout strategy, *those* single choices, what's next for Dua & try to determine a better title for the record.
ALSO discussed: LADY GAGA's Chromatica Ball sponsored by C*vid, KATY PERRY's imminent return (alongside mother monster), BONNIE MCKEE's 'Hot City', WeHo Pride ft. KESHA & KYLIE MINOGUE and the supreme court's hottest new case: BILLIE EILISH v. TAYLOR SWIFT.
At the SPA: NELLY FURTADO, TOVE LO & SG LEWIS (Love Bites), MAGDALENA BAY (Death & Romance), MAUDE LATOUR (Cursed Romantics), DEBBII DAWSON (Turn the TV On), VINCINT (Another Lover ft. Adam Lambert), FLO (Caught Up), MADISON ROSE (Paradise), and PURPLE DISCO MACHINE & BENJAMIN INGROSSO (Honey Boy ft. Nile Rogers & Shenseea).
NEXT WEEK: 'Hit Me Hard & Soft' by BILLIE EILISH!
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This week we're rounding out our 2-part deep dive into the 5-year celebration of CARLY RAE JEPSEN's 'Dedicated' with a look at the latter half on the album. Throughout our track-by-track, we discuss the lost CRJ orchestral album, the art of the album track, the joy of freeing yourself from artist expectations, and we re-do our ranking for every song across the Dedicated era.
ALSO discussed: Eurovision, our birthdays, and wellness checks on DAGNY, BETTY WHO and ALY & AJ!
At the SPA: CHARLI XCX (360), BONNIE MCKEE (Forever 21), ZEE MACHINE (Worse), LOREEN (Forever), ROSEMARY JOAQUIN (Bestie), REMI WOLF (Toro).
NEXT WEEK: We're off for our birthday bashes, but when we return, we're talking all things DUA LIPA & 'Radical Optimism'!
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This week is a classic 'round these parts as we take yet another deep dive into the discography of unofficially crowned queen of pop CARLY RAE JEPSEN in celebration of her 4th LP 'Dedicated' which turns 5 this month! In the first part of our 2-part track-by-track, we discuss our initial disappointment with the project following the post-Emotion haze of it all, the many shapes this album took (Disco Sweat, anyone?), and we attempt to determine our Top 5 Carly songs, ever. Wish us luck!!
ALSO discussed: initial reactions to DUA LIPA's 'Radical Optimism' (TLDL: its good and thats fine!), and which pop girls served at the MET GALA (looking at you, Tyla & AI Katy Perry!)
At the SPA: CAROLINE POLACHEK (Starburned & Unkissed), DEBBII DAWSON (Happy World), ASTRID S (Hot Fever Dream), and VANESSA WILLIAMS (Legs [Keep Dancing]).
NEXT WEEK: Part 2 of our Dedicated Deep Dive!
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