Queer Women are Taking Over Pop (with Trish Bendix & Mel Woods)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
To kick off Pride Month, Freelance Music Writer Trish Bendix and Senior Editor at Xtra Magazine Mel Woods join Louie to track the conspicuous rise of sapphic-ness in mainstream pop. From BoyGenius to Chappell Roan to Billie Eilish, girls who like girls and make that a huge feature in the music are crossing over onto the top of the Billboard charts. How did we get here? When did this story begin to happen? And what does it say about our culture that this is finally allowed to happen?
Read Trish's Piece "Long cast aside, queer women are starting to get their due from the music industry" in NBC News
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| 0:54.6 | Gorgeous, gorgeous, My Queer Pop Party is having two pride parties. |
| 0:57.9 | The first is next weekend, June 15th, Saturday at Los Globos in Silver Lake. |
| 1:04.3 | There are tickets available for that in the show notes of this episode and our Pride Party |
| 1:08.4 | in Brooklyn on June 28th. |
| 1:10.3 | That's a Friday at the |
| 1:11.2 | Sultan Room in Bushwick. The online tickets for that are sold out were gooped, gagged, |
| 1:15.6 | all of it, that you all did that with three weeks to go until that party. But I want to |
| 1:20.8 | stress that there will be tickets at the door. So if you didn't manage to grab a ticket online, |
| 1:25.9 | you should still try to come out, come to the |
| 1:27.9 | Sultan room, come to that party. It's obviously going to be one for the books. I can't wait for both |
| 1:33.0 | of them. So it's Pride Month, as some of you might know, and to kick off our Pride Month content, |
| 1:38.2 | we felt it was the perfect time to talk about what is an obvious trend that is happening in pop |
| 1:42.7 | music right now, which is the boom |
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