New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On Aug. 20
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Comedian Tiffany Haddish is busy. |
| 0:01.7 | She's acting, producing, but she says she's not just doing it for herself. |
| 0:06.1 | How much generation of wealth are you creating when you get to tell the story |
| 0:10.1 | and give other people opportunity to tell that story with you? |
| 0:13.1 | Tiffany Haddish, on her power in Hollywood. |
| 0:16.4 | Listen now to the It's Been a Minute podcast from NPR. |
| 0:20.5 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Stephen Thompson. It is new music Friday and for a very busy August 20th, |
| 0:29.3 | we've got new albums by Sturgeon Simpson, John Coltrane, Death Heaven and more. |
| 0:33.6 | But first, here's Lord and her new album, Solar Power. |
| 1:03.6 | That's the path from Solar Power by Lord. |
| 1:30.0 | Lord became a pop superstar back in 2013 when her song Royals was a worldwide sensation. |
| 1:36.3 | The singer was just 16 at the time. |
| 1:38.8 | She's now 24 in those intervening years. |
| 1:41.6 | She's won a couple of Grammys. |
| 1:42.8 | She released a hugely well-received album in 2017 called Melodrama. |
| 1:47.1 | Joining me from Atlanta to talk about Lord's new album, Solar Power is writer Gavin Godfrey. |
| 1:51.4 | Welcome, Gavin. |
| 1:52.4 | What's going on Stephen? |
| 1:53.4 | How you doing? |
| 1:54.4 | I'm great. |
| 1:55.4 | It's great to have you. |
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