Culture Gabfest - Summer Strut 2020

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🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by Hit Parade host Chris Molanphy to take on contenders for song of the summer, an unusual competition this year that has been heavily influenced by TikTok. Then, the team dives into 20 hours of listener-nominated songs to determine the “struttiest,” giving you new music to listen to as you strut around your house this summer or when venturing out on an exciting adventure to the grocery store.

In Slate Plus, the hosts zip through a lightning round of their Summer Strut recommendations.

Summer Strut 2020 Short List on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0P17fljddUDgdDHJx7Sa27?si=MrLdELutSJSdcw5WyW-ekQ

Past “Summer Strut” Gabfests are available here: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen.

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest, Summer Strutt, 2020 edition.
0:15.3	It's Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020. On today's show, we distilled, I think it was close to this year, 20 hours of music down to
0:23.1	our favorite songs, which we're now going to roundtable and talk about. We say what we like,
0:27.9	and Chris Malanthe tells us why. Let me begin by introducing you then, Chris. Chris Malanthi,
0:33.3	of course, is the host of the Hit Parade podcast. He's Slate's resident chartologist. Welcome back to
0:39.3	the show. Thank you so much, Steve. How are you? Yeah, really good. It's great to have you back.
0:43.3	And of course, my co-hosts are Julia Turner, who is the deputy managing editor of the LA Times. Hey,
0:49.9	Julia. Hello, hello. And Dana Stevens, who's the film critic for Slate. Hey, Dana. Hey.
0:56.1	All right. So, Julia, why don't you just quickly, it's been so long, give very briefly the origin story of the Summer Strut episode of the Culture Gab Fest.
1:05.7	Okay. The Summer Strut episode originated when I lamented on the show that I needed some music to strut
1:13.6	around New York City too. I was sick of all my music and I wanted some recommendations for walking
1:18.7	around New York in the hot, hot summer. And the listeners responded in droves and we made a big
1:24.3	playlist and we picked some songs we liked. And I think it's been an annual tradition every year since, with the exception of maybe, there might have been one year we skipped it.
1:32.3	And it's sort of become its own little mini genre.
1:36.3	I think it's also a place where we all connect with the curtains of music once a year.
1:41.3	Some of them very occurant, some of them having to do with the wild tastes of
1:47.6	our eclectic listeners. And I personally use it now to just refresh my music every year. Like,
1:52.9	I don't go shopping. I don't read music blogs. I just like learn about a bunch of new bands
1:56.6	and artists once a year and then, you know, slowly add to it until next time there's strut.
2:01.7	So in general, that's what strut is.
2:03.8	I will say it's usually a like swaggering, boisterous, woo-hoo, carefree, summer sunshine,
2:10.9	who cares if I get a few freckles type vibe.
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