Obsessions: Mae Muller On The Power Of Rihanna

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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.

Delving deep into the minds of our favourite people's deepest obsessions, this week we're joined by the incredible Mae Muller. The London based singer-songwriter will be telling us all about her obsession with Rihanna! An obsession she probably shares with half the world, (including both Olivia and Ione), Mae tells us everything from the first time she heard her music, to her impact on her as a fellow musician, her refusal to be boxed into one profession and much more. We're also chatting to Mae about stan and fan culture, why we need to reject the idea of 'good' female role models, and the pressure on women to present as perfect at all times

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0:00.0	Hello, Hello Olivia. Hello to everyone. Thank you for joining us and welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ioni and I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of Polyester.
0:29.2	And I'm Olivia, the co-host, producer and editor of the podcast. We publish weekly episodes with the Sleepover Club one week and Obsessions for next.
0:36.9	This week it is the
0:38.7	obsessions episode where we talked to a husband we admire about something they're obsessed with
0:43.3	that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. Next week it's the sleepover club
0:47.3	where Ioni and I have all those gorge conversations you'd usually have a sleepover with your
0:51.8	gale mate and at the end there's some recommendations from a creator get you through lockdown or just life in general. Feels like ages since we did the last obsessions. This past month has been a bit of a weird time warp, hasn't it? Yeah, because it's like summer but not summer. Yeah. It's like not summer because the weather's shit and then when it is, you're like, oh, it's too hot, I can't possibly.
1:14.1	I mean, that's just being like English down to a tier.
1:16.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:18.7	So what is your obsession this week?
1:21.5	Oh, and before we move on to a session,
1:24.2	Olivia's media ascension has another notch to its bed post with your interview in
1:29.3	the face. Oh yeah, of course. Oh, that old thing. Yeah, just being a top scouser. Oh, just for
1:37.7	context, got asked to model the new Liverpool Awakeet and got dressed by someone that wasn't me.
1:45.7	Actually, physically that didn't happen, but, of course. And yeah, modelled the kit, spoke about being from the best city
1:53.1	in the world, the best team in the world. That was great. Well, congratulations. So what is your
1:59.5	obsession this week?
2:06.1	Just to carry on from talking about the best city in the world. I don't know I only have even sent you any of these.
2:09.3	Maybe this is just something we can do for the next six hours after we finish recording.
2:13.4	Have you ever seen No context Scalcers on Twitter?
2:18.0	No. I've seen like the No Context Scottish one or something, but not Scouses.
2:37.4	It's just absolute comedy gold. It's like been going for a little while and then just this past few weeks I've really like watched every single video like a few times and then I'm just like thinking of all the like my cousin sent me a video yesterday where he's on a boat and he's not rowing but the lad who is rowing he's like calling him for all kinds being like that's not how you know
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