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🗓️ 15 April 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Barbie has been around for almost 65 years, but Barbie's aesthetic? You could argue it's been around even longer. |
0:08.0 | When you kind of put up like timeline of the history of fashion, Barbie Quares always kind of in there. We just didn't call it that. |
0:17.0 | And I think by the time you hit like clueless, super-sized like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, it became more of a present. |
0:26.0 | The Enduring Appeal of Barbie Fashion. This week on Into It, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast. |
0:34.0 | I had to call an emergency meeting of the Switched On Pop Committee. Shine the Bat signal and get Charlie on the horn because somehow we missed one of the major musical events of 2015 completely. |
0:52.0 | Carly Ray Jepsen, who has created one of the most perfect pop songs of our generation, call me maybe, has come out with a sequel. |
1:03.0 | It's called I Really Like You. And very quietly rose to number 43 on the pop charts and has been dropping down ever since. |
1:12.0 | We need to listen to this song, we need to figure out, okay, are people missing the sequel to the greatest pop song of our generation? |
1:20.0 | Or are they rightly turning their cheek to what is a pale imitation of a possible one-hit wonder? |
1:42.0 | Welcome to Switched On Pop, where we can't figure out what our tagline is yet, but we think that we decode the meaning in pop music, I'm your co-host Charlie Harding. |
1:50.0 | It works for me, I'm Nate Sloan, and I think the question that we need to ask ourselves as we proceed is, how do you follow up a massive, unexpected pop smash like call me maybe, which spent nine consecutive weeks at number one on the hot 100 in the summer of 2012? |
2:11.0 | I threw a wish in the well, don't ask me, I'll never tell, I look to you as it fell, and now you're in my way, I trade my soul for a wish, pennies and diamonds for a kiss, I wasn't looking for this, but now you're in my way. |
2:28.0 | Who, Carly Rae, she basically ruled the entire summer of 2012, it ruled my summer, I think you're right, there is a self-awareness that, okay, we have got a sophomore song, we're putting it out there, it has got to be successful, what are the five steps that we can take to make sure this will be the most successful sophomore hit? |
2:49.0 | Let's beat low, okay, so here's what we're going to do, first we're going to listen to this song, and then to answer your question, I want us to break, I want to try and break down what was the strategy here? |
2:59.0 | And then the question I think we need to ask ourselves is, did it work or not? |
3:05.0 | Cool, so let's listen to, I really, really, really, really, really like you, I really like you too Charlie. |
3:14.0 | I really want to stop, but I just got to taste for it, I feel like I could suck with the bomb move, so honey, hold my hands, you like making me wait for it, I feel like I could die, walking up to the room, oh yeah, late night watching television, but how we get in this position is a way too soon, I love this isn't slow, |
3:43.0 | but I need to tell you something, I really, really, really, really, really like you, I want you to want me, do what me too, I really, really, really, really like you, I want you to want me, do what me too, oh did I say too much, I'm falling in my head, where we're at the touch, I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really |
4:13.0 | really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really late night, you're back in Luciol and your lady. You ain't actually gone some day, but the lady is really crazy, see, she's really crazy, look, she's crazy, look, she's really crazy, look, she's crazy, look, her the Yeonifa |
4:14.0 | also is, well, like she's really crazy, basically, she's lot of trash and stuff like that and her |
4:39.3 | over the summer of 2012. |
4:41.1 | How do you follow that up? |
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