89: She Lives for the Applause: Meet Rebecca

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In 2009, a new girl hit the pop culture scene, joining the likes of Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, and Kesha. Her name? Rebecca Rubin. Her height? 18”. Looking for her backstory? Cruise on over to the Wikipedia page for the Lower East Side. Actually, her books are a far better source (take it from us). In reading Meet Rebecca, we learn that this girl really only wants a few things: to be taken seriously, an acting career, and aid for her family looking to immigrate to the USA. We discuss Rebecca’s introductory plot lines, the awesome side characters, and some of the inspiration behind the book.

Time Stamps:
00:00-14:30 - We talk Owl City, pop culture moments from 2009, Unexpected, Taylor Swift's honorary degree, the Lower East Side wikipedia page
14:30-01:01:07 - Meet Rebecca discussion

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0:00.0	So I would classify what I have to tell you as an ecology update. Okay. I'm listening. You would not believe your eyes if 10 million fireflies
0:09.9	lit up the world as I fell asleep
0:13.5	And leave tear drops everywhere. You'd think me rude but I would just stand in stare. Does that like track?
0:20.6	Thank you, Al City. I'm having such like a big time flashback right now and you know, I don't
0:30.1	really know that I can continue recording this episode. Thank you. Do you want a thousand hugs
0:35.3	from 10,000 Lightning Bugs or one hug from Al City? No! I mean it's like I'm pro nature except with
0:43.2	this song. Welcome everyone to American Girls The Podcast. This is the show where we're reliving
1:08.1	the American Girl Series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm still Allison. Or Al City, I guess you were,
1:16.0	you know, you just did some basically spoken word of fireflies because that came out in a year
1:22.3	that's going to be very important for us today and that's 2009. 2009 was a year in which, as you
1:28.5	may recall, if it will please the court TikTok was a song by Kesha, not an app that I spent three
1:34.5	hours a day on. We were getting stripped down versions of various songs by Miley Cyrus. We were
1:40.6	getting single ladies by Beyoncé. You and I were graduating college and we got Rebecca Rubin.
1:46.8	I just want to say that I believe Rebecca Rubin has aged better than fireflies and I don't want to
1:52.9	hear from people about this like leave me alone, like leave me in peace. What I need you to understand
1:57.5	is that I once did a babysitting gig one summer and for whatever reason the person I babysat,
2:03.1	the only music that we could listen to was fireflies on a loop not kidding and with the Lizzy
2:10.4	McGuire soundtrack. Again, these things are not bad on their own. I'm just saying picture me in my
2:16.3	Saturn. I'm listening to this stuff like five hours a day taking this person here or there and
2:21.2	everywhere. It was a lot like I'm just like I can't be alone with fireflies like I can't sit with
2:28.0	that. You know what? I think actually is really helpful. So you study Bibliotherapy,
2:32.4	Books is Medicine. If we were to think about lyric therapy, this song actually is really instructive
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