The War Over ‘La La Land’: Gotta Hear Both Sides

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The toast of Hollywood has divided our culture writers. Two of the movie’s boosters go to battle with two of its critics in this week’s Popcast.

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0:00.0	City of Stars are you shining just for me.
0:08.0	Welcome to the New York Times podcast, your deep commentary on moral larceny of music
0:11.8	music, news and criticism.
0:13.2	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:14.6	There's so much that I can't see.
0:20.7	Oh, is this the start of something wonderful,
0:27.0	or one more dream? Or a dream. a dream.
0:35.0	If it's a mournful piano figure, it must be Ryan Gosling and Lala Land.
0:40.0	That was City of Stars.
0:42.0	Get a Kleenex. W wipe your eyes. Let's get involved
0:46.2	I am joined by an all-star cast today to discuss Lala Land which just was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, including Best Lala Land and Best
0:57.2	Other Lala Land.
0:58.2	I am joined by Ayo, Tony Scott, co-chief film critic in the New York Times.
1:04.4	Hey, has anybody given that to you by the way?
1:06.4	I have.
1:07.4	What earlier on earlier, no one come up to you and sing like,
1:11.4	AO, AO, AOo every hip-hop song I know that's also it's just like
1:16.9	triggers all the time and bojack horseman I don't know that reference speaking
1:22.0	of reference free Joe
1:24.2	Coscarelli pot music before the New York Times and Wesley Morris Critic
1:28.8	in the New York Times we have a full spectrum of aesthetic and philosophical opinion about La La Land represented at our hexagon today.
1:38.0	And let's not start with the music. We will come back to the music because honestly it's probably going to take you guys at least 15 to 20 minutes to shake that version of City of Stars out of your system
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