Obsessions: Shona McAndrew On Why She Loves TikTok
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
For our last episode before the summer break, we sit down with one of our FAVOURITE artists, Shona McAndrew. Shona is sharing her love for TikTok; from dueting, to the political content on the app, the obscure trends it leads us too and why TikTok is arguably a more productive place than any other social media platform. But for all the joy the app brings; TikTok isn't without it problems — from censorship, to fatphobia and more. Ione, Gina, and Shona discuss how to navigate social media as an artist looking to find connection.
Every so often 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, Gina. |
| 0:01.0 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.2 | And hello to all of the listeners. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm I'm Ioni. |
| 0:06.9 | And I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of Polyester Online in print and everywhere else. |
| 0:11.1 | And I'm Gina. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm the deputy editor for Polyester Online, as well as the founder for the fat scene and a journalist and editor everywhere else. |
| 0:19.8 | We published two weekly episodes with the sleepover club, |
| 0:23.1 | Confessions and Obsessions. |
| 0:25.5 | This week, it's the Obsessions episode where we talk to a person we admire |
| 0:28.8 | about something they're obsessed with that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. |
| 0:33.8 | And there is no next week because we're taking our break. |
| 0:37.8 | No reaction to that, Gina. |
| 0:41.5 | Didn't know if I was meant to do when it's not on the script. |
| 0:44.1 | We went off script. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah, now we're off script. |
| 0:46.8 | Oh, we're off script now. |
| 0:48.7 | So while we were. |
| 0:50.5 | So obviously Gina is here, not Olivia, because Gina and I conducted this obsessions because |
| 0:57.6 | she is one of our favourite artists. Yeah, and I've been doing a bit of guest hosting and it's |
| 1:03.5 | been quite nice to not just do a gossipy one to do an interviewy one. It was quite a nice. Little treat |
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