4.2 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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In this special music-themed episode of Unpopular, producer RedOne talks about his incredible career as one of pop music's biggest hitmakers. He shares the story of meeting an undiscovered Lady Gaga for the first time and producing her debut album, creating Jennifer Lopez's comeback single "On The Floor" and why he was warned NOT to work with her, how he took Nicki Minaj from the U.S. rap charts to the global pop charts, the behind-the-scenes politics of the music industry, his new role in the blockchain talent show SpotStar and much more.
Before that, Jacques gives his thoughts on Kanye’s Donda, Olivia Rodrigo, Halsey, Billie Eilish, Tinashe, and Iggy Azalea. There’s also an update on the ~drama~ with the Outspoken podcast.
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00:00 Unpopular vs Outspoken
09:50 Kanye West's Donda
17:15 Halsey
22:30 Olivia Rodrigo
26:10 Tinashe and Iggy Azalea
30:40 Billie Eilish
34:30 RedOne interview
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0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome to a bonus episode of Unpopular. I have been in bed for the last day and a half, I think, |
0:23.6 | because I had my first vaccination finally, and it really fucked me up. I was surprised how bad |
0:29.2 | the side effects were, honestly. I was not expecting it to be that extreme, but it did only last, |
0:35.2 | probably for like 12 hours was the worst of it, and then I |
0:38.1 | came out of it, but Jesus Christ, it was a lot. Okay, so I have the music producer Red One on |
0:45.6 | today, and he's a huge hitmaker. He's produced like a million of the biggest pop hits, |
0:50.6 | seriously, and we talked all about it and how he met Lady Gaga and produced her first |
0:56.5 | album and worked with Nikki Minaj and all of these other people. It's a really fun chat, and if you're |
1:02.5 | into pop music, especially, you're going to like it. So that's coming up. I'm also going to go over |
1:07.8 | a few music-related topics. Like, I don't know how much I have to say, |
1:12.1 | to be honest, but I made myself sit through a lot of the new big albums like Kanye and |
1:17.2 | Halsey, and I'm just going to give you my thoughts on that. This is basically a music, a special |
1:22.7 | music-themed episode of Unpopular. We're not doing any reality TV today. But first, before I get to that, |
1:29.0 | I just want to address a little controversy that I've been in. It's really between me and the |
1:33.8 | Outspoken podcast. So if you listened to my last episode, you'll know that I criticized the |
1:40.4 | outspoken pod over how they handled their story on, well, how they covered the anti-lockdown |
1:46.7 | influencer Chloe Zep. |
1:48.6 | And then I complained about their podcast being in the wrong iTunes category because it is a |
1:53.8 | society and culture podcast, but it was in the TV and film section. |
1:57.0 | So I complained about that. |
1:58.7 | And then I said that their branding was terrible because they're |
2:01.2 | not outspoken yet they call their podcast outspoken. Well, they ended up hearing the episode, |
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