#751 Rocking the Closet: Sexuality in Music, Opinions on Dua Lipa, Waxahatchee & Melkbelly
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Back in the 1950s, artists like Little Richard and Liberace found unique ways to present their sexuality within the “acceptable” boundaries existing in society, and in many ways, pushed them. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot have a discussion about sexuality in music. They also review new albums by pop artist Dua Lipa and indie acts Waxahatchee and Melkbelly.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to yet another edition of socially distant sound opinions and today we are talking about sexual identity in music |
| 0:09.7 | Especially starting in the 50s and how artists have portrayed or tried to disguise it over the years long before it was acceptable for them to come out. |
| 0:19.7 | But first we are going to talk about some new music. Did a full 180 crazy. |
| 0:25.2 | Crazy. |
| 0:27.2 | Thinking about the way I was. |
| 0:30.2 | Did the heartbreak change me? |
| 0:33.0 | Maybe, but look at where I ended up. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm all good already, so moved on, it's scary. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm not where you left me at all. |
| 0:47.0 | That is a little bit of the track don't start now from the new album by Doa Leepa Future Nostalgia. |
| 0:56.0 | Greg, Doleepa's fascinating backstory. |
| 1:00.0 | Young woman born to Kosovar Albanian parents raised in London. young short stint where she went back to her native war-torn land and then returned to London to be discovered by |
| 1:16.6 | Lana Del Ray's management team who signed her. She got on her way making a self-titled debut album. It took the world by storm. |
| 1:27.0 | In fact, she won that most benighted of Major Musical Awards, the 2019 Grammy for Best New Artist. |
| 1:35.6 | I say be knighted because many of the best new artists throughout the history of that |
| 1:39.1 | award have then promptly disappeared, never to be heard from again. Not so the case with Dua Lipa. |
| 1:46.1 | There is a lot of anticipation for future nostalgia. She's been talking a lot about |
| 1:52.0 | a big Madonna influence going into this album and in fact Stuart |
| 1:57.6 | Price who last was most notably probably was heard producing confessions on a dance floor for Madonna |
| 2:04.3 | is on some of these tracks helping Doleepa deliver the dance floor goods. Let's play a |
| 2:10.3 | song and we'll come back and give our opinions about future nostalgia. |
| 2:15.8 | This is the song pretty pleased by Do Aleepa on sound opinions. |
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