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The Polyester Podcast

The Sleepover Club: Everything Gen Z Gets Wrong About Indie Sleaze

The Polyester Podcast

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5533 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Haven't you heard? Indie Sleaze is back! Dig out the coloured tights, find your old American Apparel hoodies and dust off your old copies of NME. This week we're joined by Polyester socials editor Eden Young, as her and Ione describe what Indie Sleaze was really like to someone who was never there: Halima, aka our resident Gen Z.


What is the difference between Twee, Indie Sleaze, Nu Rave, and the 2014 Tumblr Girl? And why is TikTok lumping them all together when discussing the current cultural resurgence? With guest statements from none other than the Indie Sleaze instagram account itself, Ione and Eden remember what made the era great; and try to convince Halima to embrace its newest incarnation.


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The Polyester Podcast is brought to you by Polyester's founding editor in chief Ione Gamble (@ionegamble), co-hosted by Halima Jibril (@h.alimaa). and edited by Olivia Graham (@og.irl). Polyester is a self-published culture zine exploring intersectional URL feminism in the IRL world. Have faith in your own bad taste!


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0:00.0

Hi, Halima. Hi, Oni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ioni,

0:05.9

the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester Online, imprint and everywhere else. And I'm Halima, the community

0:10.9

editor of Polyester and the co-host of the Polyester podcast. We publish weekly episodes with

0:15.8

The Sleepover Club and Obsessions. This week is the Sleepover Club where we have all those

0:20.4

garage conversations you usually have with your mates at a sleepover. This week is a sleepover club where we have all those garage conversations you usually have

0:22.1

with your mates at a sleepover.

0:23.7

This week we are joined with Eden Young.

0:27.0

A very special guest.

0:29.9

Eden, would she like to introduce yourself to the podcast?

0:32.6

Hello, I'm Eden.

0:33.6

I'm the socials editor for Polyester and I'm very excited to be here today. So today, me and

0:41.3

Eden and also the whole of the internet have been having very many conversations about the

0:47.0

return of indie slees. But Halima has no fucking clear what we're on about because she is but a child.

0:56.5

I was thinking, you guys think I probably have no clue what this is.

1:00.0

I was chronically online as an 11-year-old, so I have some knowledge.

1:06.4

You make me feel sick.

1:09.8

When did, okay, because I was looking at this up yesterday, and there was an account that was talking about how Indies Slee's stopped in 2012. I don't think that's true. Is that true? Yeah. That's true. Kind of died out. Okay, so Halima, maybe we should start by, you tell us what you think Indie Slees is. Okay, so when Indy Slees died, supposedly, I was 12. So clearly, yeah, I was 12 and I died. So, but I was thinking that Indies was like, you know, I can't remember how, not say her last name, but it's like Sky Ferrarra. Sky Ferrarian. Eden, how'd you say the last name?

1:44.7

Ferraria.

1:45.7

Ferraria.

1:52.4

So like Sky Ferraria, like that whole vibe, like Tumblr, like skins, like staying up late,

1:55.4

like tights, like, out of monkeys.

1:58.8

That's what I was thinking.

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