Dessa Changes Her Mind
Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
WBEZ
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Nerdette team recently moved next to the crew at Sound Opinions, WBEZ’s long-running rock n’ roll talk show. We bring that up because last year that team reviewed Dessa’s latest album, “Chime,” and not only did they call it “brilliant,” they called Dessa “a renaissance woman in the truest sense.”
That’s because Dessa is a rapper, singer, author, poet, and whiskey co-creator. And she even participated in an “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”-type procedure in an attempt to remove memories from a painful relationship.
Greta talks to Dessa about all of that. And we listen to some of the amazing tracks on “Chime.”
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| 0:35.1 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:38.1 | And Nerdette is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon-to-be favorite people about how their passions drive what they do. And today's |
| 0:43.6 | guest is Dessa. You don't know who Dessa is? Well, buckle up. |
| 0:49.5 | Because we don't say, go out and be brave. Now what you say, be careful, stay safe. In any given instance that don't hurt go out and be brave now we say be careful stay safe in any given instance |
| 0:56.3 | that don't hurt but it sinks in like stalettos and soft earthlight the big coin is not a day |
| 1:01.6 | without an incident i beg to differ with it i think a woman's worth i think that she deserves |
| 1:06.9 | a better line of work than motherfucking vigilance. |
| 1:12.1 | Don't get me vigilance. |
| 1:15.3 | But definition, you can't make a difference. |
| 1:18.1 | If the big ambition is simply standing sentry to your innocence, |
| 1:21.1 | that's not a way to live. |
| 1:22.1 | That can't be what a woman is. |
| 1:23.9 | That gives them nothing to inspire to. |
| 1:25.9 | What that is, what that is. |
| 1:28.8 | It's just a life of running fire drills. |
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