Benifer is back. Brad and Jen are friends again, and Paris Hilton is somehow still making headlines.

Twenty years later, we're living in the world that the 2000s tabloids created. On this series,

I'm going to tell you the story of a decade of American life through the trash we love to consume.

From Spotify and the Ringer podcast network, I'm Claire Malone, and this is just like us,

The Tabloids, The Changed America.

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Hello, we're back.

Today's show, we've got Shirley Halperin, a variety.

She's the music editor there.

It's going to give us a Grammy's preview and break down the Kanye of it all, the Olivia

Rodrigo of it all.

And we'll talk a little bit about the music industry and where it stands right now.

It's actually doing pretty well.

Surprisingly, the streaming revolution has benefited music.

Speaking of streaming, Craig, did you sign up for CNN Plus the day it launched?

I did not, and there are probably 25 other streaming services that outrank CNN Plus for me.

I would subscribe to Epics before I subscribe to CNN Plus.

Yeah, it's sort of a head scratcher.

I don't know who the CNN Plus audiences.

I mean, I think there's probably, you know,

Anderson Cooper super fans and Wolf Blitzer beard fetishists out there

who feel that they need access to their heroes 24 hours a day.

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