Maggie Serota | The Singer Swindle

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Bleav + Rachel Selig & Jason Doyle

Leisure, Society & Culture, Relationships, Sports, Comedy, Interview

4.9 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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🐾 Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Maggie Serota (Spin) joins MattyO & JD to discuss poorly engineered pizza, riding an elevator with Sting, singers forcing crowds to belt out the chorus, bands pulling kids on stage, reading alone in a bar, the inefficiency of the single restroom, zen and the art of hand-washing dishes, screaming over a solo, defending the mosh pit, rock music in theaters, and ranking Toto’s best Yacht Rock songs. 𝐗 Follow Maggie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maggieserota 👕 Is [This] Good? Merch: https://breakingt.com/isthisgood 📺 Subscribe to Is [This] Good? on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isthisgood 😎 Follow Is [This] Good? on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isthisgoodpod 📸 Follow Matt Osten on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosten 📸 Follow JD on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tjasondoyle 🏀 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nodunksinc

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0:28.9	Apple Intelligence coming this fall.
0:43.4	Hello. Hello and welcome to Is This Good?
0:49.9	The show are we boldly, conclusively, and scientifically decide what things in this big, wide world, are good?
0:55.1	I'm Matt Austin, and with me, as always, is production powerhouse Jason Doyle.
0:55.5	Hello.
0:57.7	Hi, JD. Thanks so much for coming.
1:03.1	And today's guest is a former staff writer at Spin Magazine and contributor at glamour, pitchfork,
1:07.4	Esquire, Rolling Stone, and every other goddamn publication you could think of.
1:10.9	She's been making me laugh on Twitter for years, so I'm very excited to have her on, partly because she's a funny and astute observer of music and pop culture, but mostly
1:16.1	so that I can find out why she's obsessed with one particular image of the musician's sting
1:20.9	that she's reposted at least a thousand times. You'll remember her when the West Wind moves. It's
1:26.6	Maggie Sorota. Maggie, welcome to Is This Good. Thank you. It's good to be here. You'll remember her when the West Wind moves. It's Maggie Sorota. Maggie, welcome to
1:28.3	Is This Good. Thank you. It's good to be here. You make it sound like I've actually done things in my
1:33.3	life. Well, I mean, if you condense an entire life into one paragraph, chances are it's going to
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