Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get From You

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Writer Kaitlyn Tiffany is a smart culture critic, podcasts host, and longtime fan of One Direction. All of these things are almost equally relevant to our episode this month. Her new book, Everything I Need I Get From You, offers insight into the idea of the screaming female fan, from Beatlemania to the present. Tiffany, a longtime follower of 1D, asks important questions about the internet and what it means to be a fan. Why did a 1D devotee make a shrine to Harry Styles’s vomit? What’s at stake in fandom communities on the web? Why have many people traded anonymity on the web for having a brand? Maybe the internet is just a bunch of tubes, but Tiffany makes us think about them as complicated echo chambers, too.

Original air date: February 15, 2023

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to Dolls of Our Lives, the Patreon, the show where we're
0:14.8	reliving the American Girl series book by book, except here where we're doing
0:18.6	kind of whatever we want that we think lives in the world of the show,
0:22.1	including your suggestions I'm Mary I'm Allison we
0:27.2	decided to go deep into what I did not know initially was sort of a one direction
0:36.2	memoir.
0:37.2	We chose to read Caitlin Tiffany's
0:39.6	everything I need I get from you,
0:42.0	how fan girls created the internet as we know it. Whoa. This is a wild ride of a book and I think I saw this
0:50.9	mentioned somewhere and it's a really and I thought it looked interesting because one this is a show in many ways it explores like why we love American girl and like what this does for all of us who are into this.
1:02.0	So it seemed like a good time to get into a book that's like looking at fandom and particularly like fandom among girls and women and like basically one of the main arguments of this book is like if you look at fandom and particularly girl fandom one, they're erased from how people have thought or studied fandom in general for a very long time.
1:22.0	And then two, like if you look at them, you can see that it's like
1:26.0	they shaped the tone of the internet question mark, like that's a big claim of this book
1:30.4	that if you look at how fans behaved on Tumblr and Twitter and
1:34.7	early platforms you can see the ways that like fans created culture that's now been
1:39.0	like weirdly co-opted by these platforms and sold back to us so it's sort of like a weird cycle but it's a book about many things it's like part history part memoir part travelogue
1:51.2	I don't even know how to describe it and she's a big fan of 1D. I'm going to just go I'm jumping right to acronyms
1:56.7	Allison as if I'm in this and I'll say personally like I knew what knew of one direction they were a little bit after my time like I remember going to a
2:05.3	sleepover where someone essentially gave a PowerPoint about why we should all care about
2:09.3	in sync more than Backstreet boys because one of their members had a clothing line which meant they were deep
2:15.4	which was a lot so like that's what I remember being big I know a couple of their songs but
2:20.0	man I have been on a ride with this book
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