ICYMI - Has TikTok Ruined Live Music?
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined by Alex Sujong Laughlin, a supervising producer and co-owner of Defector Media where she makes the podcast, Normal Gossip. Alex and Rachelle dive deep into the age-old debate over concert spoilers, a debate that’s been turbo-charged by TikTok where over 80 million people watched the first two nights of Taylor Swift's "Eras" The ease of finding a livestream of some of the most expensive concerts in the world raises the question: why go to a concert when you can go on TikTok?
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Rachelle Hampton and Daisy Rosario.
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| 0:00.0 | Concert etiquette. |
| 0:02.7 | If you're getting your phone out, get it up, snap the video and take it down. |
| 0:06.7 | Don't have it up the whole time. |
| 0:08.2 | You're not going to watch the whole thing. |
| 0:09.9 | And you're obstructing everyone's view the whole time. |
| 0:12.8 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.4 | And I'm Alex Sujong Wofflin, and you're listening to I see YMI. |
| 0:18.2 | In case you miss it. |
| 0:19.4 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:21.5 | And today, hello! |
| 0:25.1 | I'm joined by a friend of this show, and I mean just general icon, Alex Sujong Loughlin. |
| 0:31.3 | Alex, hello. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi, I am so excited to be here. |
| 0:35.3 | I've never been called a friend of a show before. |
| 0:37.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:38.8 | You're definitely a friend of this show. |
| 0:41.2 | Yes. |
| 0:47.2 | Alex is not only a friend of the show, but is a supervising producer and co-owner of |
| 0:52.4 | defectory media. |
| 0:53.5 | She is one of the geniuses behind one of my favorite podcast, Normal Gossip. |
| 0:58.0 | You might have heard her on our Friendsgiving episode where we were shockingly positive |
| 1:03.1 | and talked about all the things from the 22 internet that we were thankful for. |
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