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Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

Personal Journals, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Entertainment News, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kate discusses Bama RushTok from a slightly different angle, exploring the elaborate gender performance and implicit artifice of sorority recruitment in the context of being interpreted as [postmodern] ‘camp’ and a form of high art to consume, per the insight of Tiktok users @shorthouseplant and @themostes. The meaning of camp made the internet collectively melt down in 2019 following the Met Gala (given its defining characteristic being an inability to be concretely defined), but Kate attempts to explore how as a society we’ve embraced this incredibly unserious process with a serious level of investment perhaps due to the naïveté of those earnestly performing within these exaggerated circumstances. She also deep dove breakout star Kylan and just needed someone to talk to about the high/low of her dorm room, her pageant trajectory and [alleged] last minute switch to Bama, and her hypothesis about what’s going on behind the scenes when you show up to Bama rush with a catch phrase and complete ~11 brand deals in 14 days of high exposure. Kate also spends a solid amount of time thinking of the bumping process as a sort of performance art, and talks about the increased showcasing of dancing/cheerleading talent in Tiktok videos, where the performance of sorority values in the form of costumes and choreography is not only performed for positioning among PNMs, but now to the world, and Kate’s worried about the HS cheer gals being pulled out of retirement to do roundoff back handsprings in spirit skirts on concrete in the name of sisterhood seduction. Hope it’s a great episode, not just a good episode!

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In 5 podcast.
0:13.3	I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.
0:15.1	I hope you're having a great day, not just a good day, and Skylin's world were just
0:20.5	living in it.
0:21.8	I was going to talk about something more serious this week, but realize I just kind of wanted
0:25.8	to gossip.
0:27.1	I'm actually loving right now that the past couple of weeks, there's been a lot of elevated
0:32.2	discussion about Bama Rush Talk, and I want to talk about it a little bit differently
0:36.4	from the angle we did last year in the episode, Potential New Bender, because I just need
0:40.9	somebody to talk to about this.
0:42.4	I hope you don't mind.
0:43.9	I saw people talking about sorority recruitment as being this like, and consuming it kind
0:48.7	of feeling like this form of high camp, like a performance art piece, and I was like,
0:53.7	God, I love that so much.
0:55.8	And even though camp is so hard to understand, per the Met Gala of it all, I thought I'd
1:00.8	take a stab at it.
1:01.8	So if you're confused about where I am or what Mike I'm on, it's because I recorded this
1:07.8	in my hotel bed in New York at a United Club that was not fully enclosed.
1:13.2	Talk about, I feel like a parody of myself making an earnest plea in public in front of
1:18.3	business people that were probably like, you know, on the phone talking about the, the
1:23.8	paradigm shift from a 10,000 foot view, so they didn't boil the ocean.
1:27.2	Most synergizing best practices are like whatever business people do.
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