Guess who's back in the house (music scene); plus, 'Would it Kill You to Laugh'

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In a matter of days Beyoncé and Drake both released music that draws deeply on 90s era house music. Neither of them are queer, but the they're borrowing from a genre that has been liberating for Black & Latino queer people from the 70s to today. In this episode our June guest host B.A. Parker welcomes Back Issue's co-host Josh Gwynn to chat about house music's roots and the genre's resurgence. Also, comedians Kate Berlant & John Early talk about their new special Would it Kill You to Laugh. They're great friends, and they let us in on some of their inside jokes.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Rebecca Bingham, Parker's cousin. Today on It's Been a Minute, Beyonce is back
0:08.1	and it's time to dance. Plus, a new comedy gets finds humor in social performance. Alright,
0:15.9	here's the show.
0:17.6	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, I'm B.A. Parker. And my guest
0:26.1	Josh Goyne and I are writing Hi this week. Hi. Hi, Josh. How's it going? How you doing?
0:33.8	I'm good. I mean, I'm even better now because Beyonce dropped a new song this week.
0:40.1	Bring in the alarm, calling all of the B-Hive. Get information.
0:44.2	When was the last Beyonce, Beyonce? 2016, Josh. Has it really been that long?
0:57.5	Lemonade came out when Obama was still president.
1:02.0	Yikes!
1:03.9	Josh is an audio producer and host of the podcast back issue and when Beyonce dropped her
1:09.0	new track, Break My Soul, they and I both blew up our Twitter feeds freaking out over how
1:14.8	good it was.
1:16.3	I love the fact that she is the catalyst for escapism, right, by directly interacting with
1:24.8	the thing that we all need mental and physical escape from, the pandemic, right? It's like
1:30.0	she looked outside and looked at her watch and was like, it's 12.35. Like, how do my people
1:34.9	feel at this exact moment right now and everybody said tired, burnt out, exhausted?
1:44.2	Like, when this song came out, all of my group chat, and I mean, if Beyonce had, like,
1:50.2	remember that time that Beyonce told us all to go watch Good Morning America and we
1:54.2	were like, oh, it's new music and she was like, I'm vegan.
1:57.3	And then everyone tried to be vegan for two weeks and then realized that they like cheeseburgers.
2:04.2	Exactly. Like, my group chats would blow up if Beyonce did anything. But this was like
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