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in the show notes of this episode. Gorgeous, gorgeous, my queer pop party is having its next installments on both coasts of the country. God, we are back and forth. I can't tell you how often I'm on playing these days. The next New York party will be on March 9th at the Sultan Room in Bushwick, and the next LA party will be on March 23rd at Los Globos in Silver Lake in Los Angeles. Tickets for both of those

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Gorgeous, Gorgeous, New York and Gorgeous, Gorgeous L.A. Okay, so for this week's B-side,

all of the internet is a buzz, or at least my corner of the internet is a buzz about Jennifer

Lopez's

audacious, insane, somewhat unhinged. I don't know. What other words are there to describe this

thing? Garish, ugly, new visual album, unexpected, kind of out of nowhere visual album. This is

me now, the sequel to her 2002 album, This Is Me Then, both of which chronicled various

dolliances she's had with her now husband, Ben Affleck. And I thought that that would be an

interesting moment to check in on the state of the visual album in general. Obviously, we associate

this a lot with Beyonce, having started releasing giant audiovisual projects in 2013 with her self-titled album. And then, of course, with Lemonade and Black is King as well. And then, of course, not releasing one with her most recent album, Renaissance, which was a statement on the visual album in and of itself. But of course, that kicked off a big trend in which tons of artists from Casey Musgraves to Halsey to Drake have released visual albums over the last 10 years. And then that made me think, what are the precursors to this? So Russ and I were able to recruit Sydney Urbanek, who is an

incredible writer who is working on a project right now for her newsletters. That's chronicling

the history of visual albums. So Sydney and I are talking about Jennifer Lopez's album,

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