meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Today in Focus

The ‘brat’ summer takeover

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Guardian music editor Ben Beaumont-Thomas, books editor Lucy Knight and film and TV critic Leila Latif look at what’s dominating culture this summer. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is the Guardian. Today, the four letter word that's dominating culture this summer. Businesses across the land, whatever kind of business you're in, BT's got your back.

0:29.0

We're talking small business, big business, new Business, Old Business, Top Secret Business,

0:35.6

Well that's your business, but yes, global business, serious business, family business.

0:41.6

What about show business?

0:43.0

Yes, all the business is.

0:45.0

So whatever your business, let us take care of business

0:48.0

with our secure and reliable connectivity.

0:50.0

BT's got your back.

0:52.0

Search BT's got your back. Beattie,

0:52.8

Beattie's got your back. Search beatties got your back. calling this the Brat Girl Summer because one of our greatest pop stars Charlie XCX

1:05.8

has come out with her album Brat and it's gripped pop culture in a way that very few British

1:11.8

pop releases have for a long time.

1:14.4

Yeah, 360, when you're in the memory, do you know what you see?

1:18.0

When you're in the mirror, you're just looking at me.

1:20.0

I'm everywhere I'm so jilly.

1:22.0

It's to this kind of backing of extremely crass noisy club facing pop music and yet a lot of the lyrics are about kind of her deepest fears as well as being a kind of

1:35.6

owed to the party girl. club, I want to hear this club classics, club, club,

1:45.0

club cussets.

1:46.0

The kind of figure that gets quite disparaged in our culture, I think, and patch-nised,

1:51.0

and she really gets behind it and it's this amazing

1:54.5

amazing record I'm sure it's going to be our album of the year come the end of the

1:58.1

year.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Guardian, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Guardian and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.