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TikTok’s Music Critics Reflect on 2021

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Four of the app’s voices on pop name their favorite releases of the year and discuss developing taste in the age of the algorithm. Guests: Margeaux Labat, Eric Morris, Cam Sullivan-Brown and Hunter White.

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0:00.0

Don't put snippets of songs on TikTok and that I listen to the full song in this garbage.

0:08.0

That's a catfish.

0:09.0

Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your bra, it's John of music, music, and music criticism.

0:16.0

I'm your host, John Caramonica.

0:19.0

I bought Avatar Blues and Lyre Worthiest and Lyre Lovin, but it paid me to not get some money.

0:25.0

First up is the album called Video Sex 84 by the band Video Sex.

0:29.0

It's definitely some of my favorite ex-egoslavics since pop that I've ever heard.

0:33.0

Been a while since I've put you all on to new albums, so here's some 10 out of 10 No Skip City pop albums.

0:39.0

What you've been listening to is a little bit of a mashup of some of my favorite music critics and thinkers on TikTok.

0:47.0

Yes, y'all know my brain is broken, and I spend a lot of time on TikTok.

0:51.0

And I'm always gratified when I see people who really not just care about music,

0:56.0

really want to talk about it, really want to advocate for it, and also want to show their learning process,

1:01.0

like as they're growing and discovering stuff.

1:04.0

Look, I've been following a lot of folks, and so for this quasi-year end episode,

1:11.0

what we are going to do is we're going to talk with four of the people who, in my mind,

1:16.0

are the best music-related TikToks out there.

1:18.0

Also shout out to folks like Billy, Billy with an eight, you know, you are Dev Lemons, et cetera.

1:24.0

Today, we are going to talk to four TikTok creators.

1:28.0

We're going to talk to Eric Morris, aka Cyber ex-boyfriend.

1:32.0

We're going to talk to Margot LeBot, aka Marg.nb3, Hunter White, aka WawaM music,

1:39.0

and rounding it out, it's Cam Sullivan Brown, it's just Cam.

1:44.0

We're going to get into what albums they liked, what albums and songs they liked from 2021.

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