The Sleepover Club: Is TikTok Ruining The Music Industry?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Musicians are being held captive! Forced to step onto the content treadmill and churn out TikTok's that they supposedly don't want to make, this week Halima and Ione are discussing whether the social media platform is helpful or harmful to those in the industry.
We'll be dissecting the impact of those videos; the ones in which musicians lament the fact their labels are forcing them to partake in TikTok trends. As well as debating autonomy, whether forcing artist's into content creation is stifling their creativity, or if they're just being snobs towards a platform that isn't necessarily made for them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.3 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.3 | And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ayoni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Seen and the co-coaster podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some |
| 0:21.4 | sense of it all. |
| 0:22.5 | Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. Can you tell us, oh wait, I'm |
| 0:27.9 | set up. Any, do we have any reviews this week? |
| 0:30.8 | We do! |
| 0:32.0 | Woo! |
| 0:32.9 | We have a deeply obsessed five-star review. Every take is so smart and I love how the hosts |
| 0:39.1 | acknowledge they are sometimes at the mercy of the very trends they critique. Keeps it very real. |
| 0:44.1 | So interesting to explore neoliberalisation's chokehold on pop culture today in real time, |
| 0:49.8 | i.e. the girl bossification of feminism and that girl culture. Can't wait for more. That is by |
| 0:55.4 | Sabine Poo. I don't know if I said that much. Who OUX. From the USA. Thank you. Thank you so much. |
| 1:04.4 | I am very self-aware as a person. Yeah. Thank you very much. What are we talking about today, |
| 1:09.0 | Halima? I guess we're talking about the way TikTok is ruining music, but also like how TikTok is ruining |
| 1:15.2 | the world. |
| 1:16.4 | Wow, that's a very loaded thing to say. |
| 1:19.2 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:20.8 | No, that is not my opinion. |
| 1:23.9 | So we are talking about, I'm not sure if everyone listening has seen, a couple of weeks |
| 1:29.4 | ago there was this whole thing. |
| 1:30.8 | I mean, I feel like it's been bubbling away for months now, but it kind of came to |
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