Danyel Smith

Questlove Supreme

iHeartPodcasts

Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Author and top music journalist Danyel Smith discusses her newest book, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop. Speaking to Quest' and Team Supreme, Danyel shares some fascinating bits from the book, memories from her time leading VIBE magazine, and anecdotes writing about Whitney Houston, Tupac Shakur, and Arrested Development.

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0:00.0	In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer.
0:11.5	The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.
0:15.8	Oh my goodness, we did connect to Innocent Man.
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0:41.6	Food Fighters, Fallout Boy, Kelly Clarkson, Lenny Kravitz, Travis Scott, Tim McGraw, TLC,
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1:02.8	Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.
1:06.7	Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of, or an illicit student-teacher relationship
1:11.2	on our favorite show.
1:12.8	We're Susie Bannakerum and Jessica Bennett, posts of the new podcast in retrospect.
1:17.5	Where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from the past that shaped us, and probably
1:21.6	you.
1:22.6	To try to understand what it taught us about the world, and our place in it.
1:25.4	You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.
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