ICYMI: We TikTok About Bruno

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” the hit song from Disney’s Encanto, is sitting at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, and that’s all thanks to TikTok. On the show today, Madison and Rachelle talk about the songs from Encanto currently dominating the platform, and why people online seem to love to hate Lin-Manuel Miranda. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Correction: This podcast incorrectly stated that TikTok is included in the Billboard Hot 100 chart calculations, misnamed the song “Surface Pressure,” and misstated that it is sung by the oldest daughter (it's sung by the middle daughter). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Madison Malone-Curture, and I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMI.
0:18.5	In case you missed it, sleep podcast about internet culture.
0:23.0	So last week, while many of our feeds, mine, Rachel's, probably yours, were full of West
0:28.7	Tom Caleb. There was actually another big piece of news that hit.
0:33.7	Honestly, it might have been bigger than West Tom Caleb. The M&Ms are getting a makeover.
0:39.2	More specifically, the female M&Ms are getting a makeover.
0:45.7	Lady M&Ms look different for 2022, the green M&M. No longer has those niha gogo boots.
0:51.7	The brown M&Ms high heels are shorter. Feminism.
0:55.2	Girlbossing, gatekeeping, gas gliding, gaslight.
1:01.2	The corporate machine that is the Mars Corporation that owns M&Ms announced the changes
1:07.2	as a move focused on, quote, creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive.
1:14.2	You're going to see our brand evolve and it still can feel to reflect a dynamic and progressive world that we're living in.
1:22.2	For example, cool, great.
1:25.2	I love when the mascot for capitalism is also inclusive.
1:29.2	Same.
1:31.2	I mean, I love it because of the memes, because the rebrand inspired this entire wave of memes,
1:38.2	my favorite of which went something like the green M&M used to be a thought.
1:43.2	And why are we de-slutifying the green M&M, which is true.
1:50.2	Society is inclusive of sluts and thoughts.
1:55.2	What is a society without a thought?
1:57.2	It's true. I can't believe they made the green M&M 50% less fuckable.
2:01.2	How dare they make this animated candy less hot?
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