Total Request Five (Addison Rae and the New Pop Machine)

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

Personal Journals, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Entertainment News, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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This week, Kate tries a tri-deep dive connecting Addison Rae's evolution, Y2K's one-hit wonders, and the overlap of both TRL and Tiktok's pop generations. Through Addison's candid interviews about stepping away from constant content creation, Kate explores how the machine that once discarded the forgotten pop girls of the early 2000s is long gone... or is it? Kate argues that while social media promised to democratize fame, it's actually created a more insidious system where creators internalize the disposability that labels and entertainment gatekeepers used to impose, making the case that Addison Rae represents a new model of how to game the system back.Plus: Relax, Hailey Bieber isn't a billionaire (yet), Kylie's boob job transparency, S Club 7's tragic economics, YM magazine archaeology, and why we need to stop treating one-hit wonders like cautionary tales when they were actually victims of an assembly line designed to churn through young women for profit. Enjoy!Playlists referred to:Making Bead Lizards: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qBMaMap0SsCAQT2spUU0L?si=75b7f67f73dc48e6Inflatable Chair Lounging: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZiUucH8Cl8P6TQ7TqsVVQ?si=qJUnqZNFTouyebseg-wKHwSUPPORT OUR SPONSORSTRACK FIVE CHICAGO is on Saturday, July 19. Get your tix here (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bethereinfive.com/live-shows&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1749818255876216&usg=AOvVaw2vW2SfV1vyWAUeFVCoBaqj)!Order Kate's NYT Bestselling book, One in a Millennial here!Text or leave a voicemail for Kate at 775-HEY-BETH!To pick up amika's new line of smoothing/anti-frizz products, go to loveamika.com/bethereinfive. For June, amika is giving my listeners a one-time use code for 15% off your first order. Go to my page at loveamika.com/bethereinfive and use code BETHEREINFIVE at checkout. Cozy Earth makes comfort that lasts—and this Father’s Day, he deserves it. Go to cozyearth.com (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://cozyearth.com&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1749818255876216&usg=AOvVaw1SQezMkdseLIH_XAEKufju) and use code BETHEREINFIVE for 40% off all men's apparel. For the dads who work hard during their 9-5, and deserve the best during their 5-9.Get healthy, glowing skin for summer with clean, vegan face and body care from OSEA. Get 10% off your first order sitewide with code BETHEREINFIVE at

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Be There and Five podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. I've decided that
0:18.5	if I want to make it in this town, I've got to make a change.
0:22.3	I was looking for neutral territory podcast-wise for a long car ride with my husband,
0:29.3	like something we could both listen to.
0:30.7	And I haven't peruse the podcast charts in a while.
0:33.8	And wow, every podcast that charts is like about self-improvement.
0:41.4	It's all about like leveling up or, you know, how to reclaim your life in 2025, how to get your dream career in six months, how to manifest your dream X, Y's. It's all just like how to do the next
0:58.2	thing, the best thing. How to achieve big T's and tiny arms in 21 days. I don't know. That's my
1:04.2	Google search history. In all seriousness, though, if you do have a large chest and tiny arms,
1:10.8	small frame, what's it like to be God's favorite?
1:13.2	I don't know how it works without load-bearing shoulders, but God bless.
1:17.6	Did you guys see, if I'm thinking about this, because Kylie Jenner answered a TikTok that was asking for details about her boob job, and she very specifically gave the CCs, the doctor.
1:28.9	I have no idea what half under the muscle means, but I do know that Lindsay Arnold shared
1:32.9	that hers was over the muscle. It's a little bit funny because she is so responsible for
1:38.5	so much of the beauty trends, the lip filler trend, body trends. I mean, really, she drove a lot of beauty
1:47.5	culture from a young age. I remember kids were like sticking their mouths and like shot glasses
1:53.8	or jars or something and going to ERs from suctioning them to try to make their pouts pert,
1:59.5	to use daily mail terms.
2:02.6	It was crazy.
2:06.4	Even I bought one of those weird suction contraptions to make my lips bigger.
2:08.4	It did stuff out here having bird lips.
2:09.8	And then I saw Chris comment.
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