Records That Changed Our Lives, Teen Edition: 'Tidal,' 'Blacks' Magic,' Beyoncé's '4'

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Ann Powers,
0:01.8	critic and correspondent for NPR Music,
0:03.8	and co-founder of Turning the Tables,
0:05.8	the project that takes its inspiration from Queen Beyonce,
0:09.0	who says,
0:09.8	Who runs the world, girls.
0:11.8	Who runs the world, girls?
0:13.6	Who runs the world, girls?
0:14.6	Well, girls, women, non-binary folk,
0:17.4	we're exploding the definition of girls,
0:19.6	because that's what we do.
0:21.2	In our work, we focus on the voices and stories of artists
0:24.6	who might have been overlooked or underestimated
0:27.2	or misunderstood,
0:28.8	given the way popular music history has usually been written,
0:32.1	with men at the top of the heap.
0:34.1	Women like Beyonce and the early part of her career,
0:37.7	or like this one, Fiona Apple.
0:52.8	We're gonna be talking about Fiona Apple and Beyonce
0:55.6	and Salt and Peppa with an amazing trio of women writers today.
1:00.4	First, we have Julianne Eskabato-Shepard,
1:03.2	former editor-in-chief of Jezebel,
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