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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | One of our fellow Radiotopia shows is the award-winning music podcast Song Exploder, where musicians tell the story of how they created one of their songs. |
0:09.7 | This year, Song Exploder has introduced a new series in their feed called Key Change. |
0:15.2 | It's not about songs that people made. It's about the songs that made people who they are. |
0:20.5 | The host, Rishi Kesheirwe talks to |
0:22.8 | guests about a piece of music that was transformative for them. So far, there are episodes with |
0:27.8 | actress Sophie Thatcher on Elliott Smith, with author and poet Haneep Abdurikib on The Clash, |
0:34.9 | and with comedian James Acaster on Outcast. The conversations are intimate and a |
0:40.8 | wonderful peek into how music can change the way we see the world and ourselves. Key Change comes out |
0:46.9 | once a month on the Song Exploder feed, so check it out by searching for Song Exploder on your |
0:52.3 | podcast app or go to songexploder.net slash keychange. |
0:58.0 | That's songexplloter.net slash key change. |
1:06.3 | Hello and welcome to normal gossip. |
1:11.2 | I'm your host, Rachel Hampton, and in each episode of this podcast, we're going to bring you an anonymous morsel of gossip from the real world. |
1:19.5 | If you tuned in last week or to the finale of season seven, I'm sorry because you're about to hear me repeat myself. |
1:26.0 | Like I said at the top of the premiere of this season, if you haven't tuned in in a while, |
1:29.5 | you might be thinking, that's not Kelsey's voice. |
1:33.1 | You're correct. |
1:34.6 | Your ears work. |
1:36.1 | I'm still not Kelsey. |
1:37.8 | And that will remain true for the foreseeable future unless they end up creating that |
1:41.4 | face-off machine. |
1:42.7 | At the end of season seven, normal gossip underwent a peaceful transition of power, and |
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