ICYMI: The Musician TikTok Hostage Crisis

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Over the past few months, musicians have been posting on TikTok about how their record labels are forcing them to make TikTok videos to promote their new music. On the show today, Rachelle and Madison look at what all these famous musicians like Charli XCX, Florence Welch, and Ed Sheeran are posting, why the music industry is so desperate for viral hits, and who we should feel sorry for in all of this. This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Madison Malone Kircher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.
0:03.0	Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.
0:08.0	You'll get to know the difference.
0:10.0	New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.
0:13.0	Until 9th of September, from 11 AM,
0:17.0	participating restaurants only, subject to availability.
0:20.0	We want to sign people with a viral from 11 a.m., participating restaurants only, subject to availability.
0:26.0	We want to sign people with a viral hit on TikTok only.
0:28.4	Yeah, that's really... And I'm like, that's so embarrassing for you.
0:30.6	It's real. That's so embarrassing.
0:31.8	It's your thing.
0:34.5	Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:38.0	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I feel I am I.
0:39.3	In case you missed it.
0:41.4	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:46.1	And we have the most important news of the century, maybe.
0:48.8	The Queen's not dead.
0:52.7	Shocking, literally everyone, including me. She made an appearance over the weekend just in time for her
0:55.8	platinum jubilee, which is the celebration of her 70th anniversary of ascending to the throne
1:01.8	for those who don't keep up with royals, which you shouldn't. But I'm not going to lie,
1:06.3	her appearance mostly just reminded me that she can literally just disappear for months.
1:15.8	She's very old.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.