Obsessions: Julia Jacklin On Why TV Talent Shows Should Be Left In The Past
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This episode we're joined by Olivia's most played artist of 2020, Julia Jacklin! The musician will be telling us all about her twisted obsession with TV singing competitions. For the first time in the podcast's history, our guest - Julia - will be discussing an obsession that negatively effects her life; as her infatuation with talent shows leaves her isolating friends and family in her quest to talk about them as much as possible. Julia, Ione and Olivia will be discussing how these show misrepresent the music industry, set people up for failure, and manipulate their contestants through sob stories while inflating the egos of the judges involved.
Julia will also be chatting about the personal moment that lead to illusion of these shows was shattered for her, how she still manages to invest herself emotionally in each series, and the effect that constructed reality has on our existences.
Every other week we'll be picking the brain of a different creative about something they admire that has nothing to do with how they generate their income.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Olivia. Hi, Iione. And hello to the listeners, especially hello to Jane underscore M, |
| 0:06.8 | who left us a lovely review, which we will read out in a minute. But for now, welcome to the |
| 0:12.3 | Polyester podcast. I'm I'm Iioni and I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of polyester online and |
| 0:17.1 | imprint and everywhere else. And I'm Olivia, the co-host, producer and editor of the |
| 0:21.1 | podcast we publish weekly episodes of The Sleepover Club One Week and Obsessions the next. |
| 0:25.7 | This week, it's the Obsessions episode where we talk to a person we admire about something |
| 0:29.6 | that are utterly obsessed with that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. |
| 0:33.6 | And next week is the Sleepover Club, where Ioni and I have all those gorge conversations |
| 0:37.5 | and you'd usually have with your girlmates at a sleepover. |
| 0:40.2 | So many, many exciting things happening in this episode. |
| 0:43.4 | The first is this lovely review from Jane, which says five stars adore it, standout podcast. |
| 0:50.8 | The content is always super fascinating and taking discussions and themes to another level. |
| 0:55.5 | Unpretentious, human and honest |
| 0:57.3 | and this bit's deffer about you, Olivia. |
| 0:59.4 | And extra love the host's accents could listen all day. |
| 1:04.3 | This bit's deffer about you. |
| 1:05.7 | I thought he was talking about the humble bit. |
| 1:07.0 | I was like, oh, thanks. |
| 1:09.5 | No, because my accent, I feel like my accent's not very nice. |
| 1:12.9 | No, I spelled it. Thank you. Second exciting thing is International Women's Day. Oh, yeah. Happy, |
| 1:21.9 | hardest day of work to be a woman. Honestly, I suppose now is maybe a good time to mention that the skin you're in |
| 1:29.1 | will be back on Thursday. So belated celebration there. And also on Monday, International Women's Day, |
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