S03.03: Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James: Romance Has Gotten Hotter And I Think I Like It

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

If we’re going to talk about the last 10 years of romance — what we’d call modern romance — it’s basically impossible to do that out in the world without someone who doesn’t know much about the genre asking about EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey. This week, Fated Mates is talking about Fifty Shades. Or, rather, we’re talking about what we're really talking about when we talk about Fifty Shades of Grey. At no point in this discussion do we talk about tampons. You’re welcome.

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0:00.0	Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
0:05.0	I've been thinking all week about like what the walkup music should be for this episode.
0:11.0	Oh God.
0:12.0	I'm in my head, it's like the beginning of that one like 90
0:14.9	song where he's like...
0:15.6	We're all ready for this.
0:17.6	We didn't sign a contract before this. We did not discuss our hard limits.
0:29.4	Nope. We actually have also not signed a contract for our friendship, which apparently we should have based on what happened at Drunk Austin.
0:37.6	So wait, do we need to say it out loud that we're equal partners and database?
0:41.3	Yeah, now it's on tape.
0:42.3	There it is. A gentleman's agreement. We should
0:45.8	introduce ourselves. I don't even know. Maybe there's... I think we should, yeah, ease it. Do it
0:50.6	professional. Yeah, we're going to play it real straight this week.
0:54.0	Welcome to Fated Mates, everyone.
0:58.0	I'm Sarah McClain.
1:00.0	I write romances and I read them.
1:02.0	And I'm Jen ProCop. I'm a romances and I read them.
1:03.0	And I'm Jen Procop. I'm a romance reader and critic.
1:06.0	I'm also, uh, I'm, I'm excited.
1:12.0	I'm excited. I should also say I have given a lot of interviews about
1:16.0	50 Shades of Grey over the last decade and this is the first time that I've ever
1:21.1	had a conversation about it in public. Just cash. So maybe we
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