Culture Gabfest - Culture Gabfest “Summer Strut 2024”
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show, it’s the return of a Cultfest favorite: The Annual Summer Strut Episode! As per tradition, the panel is joined by Slate’s pop music critic and chart analyst (and host of the podcast Hit Parade) Chris Molanphy to celebrate his tenth (!!) year of Summer Strutting —before the four dive into their favorite picks from this year’s massive playlist, populated with song recommendations from our lovely listeners.
You can find the panel’s collective favorites here, at the Summer Strut ‘24 Shortlist. In addition, Dana, Julia, and Stephen, have also published their personal best-of lists.
Brave listeners are welcome to explore the enormous original playlist here.
In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel breezes through two additional lightning rounds of Strut picks, including a very cool, pastiche track from the Avalanches called “Because I’m Me.”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Beckett and this is the slate culture gap-fast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Stephen Beckett and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest Summer Strut 2024 edition. |
| 0:16.0 | It's here it rolled around. |
| 0:17.3 | Calendar rolled around. |
| 0:18.3 | We're strutting. |
| 0:19.8 | And before we go any further, Julia, we we're all together in one room |
| 0:25.8 | We're in New York City. We are not AI generated. We are 3D fleshlyley, and all too real, |
| 0:33.6 | and in one another's company. |
| 0:35.0 | So excited. |
| 0:35.9 | All three topics, of course, I don't have to iterate them. |
| 0:37.9 | They're all strut. |
| 0:39.6 | Julia, I feel like you're kind of the you know fertility goddess. |
| 0:44.8 | Steve my mind was going to the same place I was thinking you were going to say like the |
| 0:48.4 | Vestal Virgin of Strutte. Basically I'm like one of the obscure submuses of the idea of the Streti Summer Song, and somewhere in the Peloponnesis, |
| 0:58.4 | there is like a slender cave out of which percussive sounds emit, and I tend a little fire at the front of it all year long. |
| 1:06.0 | This highly developed fantasy. |
| 1:09.0 | Until we all come gather around and the dance begins. |
| 1:14.5 | That's the deep history. |
| 1:15.5 | Can you give me this somewhat more recent history of the... |
| 1:18.8 | Okay, like 10, 15 years ago, I had moved to a walking commute and I put out a call to our listeners. |
| 1:25.0 | I need some new songs, I need some new music, I want to strut through the city with |
| 1:28.6 | abandoned, send me your best summer bops. |
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