What Are Your Music Pronouns? Feat. Alex Isley
Selective Ignorance with Mandii B
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
This week your hosts Bridget Kelly and Mandii B are joined by singer, songwriter, and producer Alex Isley. The ladies have some grown (5:00), honest (25:00), and slightly toxic (47:00) conversations. Since it’s Friday we leave our audience with our weekly Friday Food For Thought (1:09:00).
Grown: (5:00)
- The balance between motherhood and being a touring artist
- Alex Isley’s At Home Tiny Desk episode
- Finding a niche
- Going on Jay-Z’s college tour
Honest: (25:00)
- Bridget confesses that she wants to make alternative R&B music
- The physical copy era vs digital era of music
- Alex’s desire to work on original projects for film/tv
- Issa Rae and her amazing support/platform of local music artists
Slightly Toxic: (47:00)
- The dating “checklist” women create for their ideal partners
- Dating nonnegotiable
Songs played in this week’s episode:
“Love Letter” x Alex Isley
Contagious” x The Isley Brothers
Think of Me x Alex Isley and Jack Dine
Good & Plenty x Alex Isley Masego and Lucky Daye
“Mine” x Alex Isley ft Jack Dine
Women’s Work x Maxwell
1 Thing” x Amerie
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| 0:00.0 | Listen. Welcome guys. It's a freshly squeezed episode. It's a freshly squeezed episode of See The Thing is. |
| 0:13.8 | It's a freshly squeezed Friday. |
| 0:15.6 | Do you hear these fresh vocals in your ears right now? |
| 0:18.4 | It's crazy. |
| 0:22.4 | We gonna let this ride just this little bit, right? Let's let it ride. |
| 0:26.0 | Because these folks at their desk miserable, |
| 0:29.0 | I'm ready to go home. It's Friday baby. |
| 0:31.0 | The summer Fridays are over, so now it's just a regular Friday, so that means you got to stay until five, six. |
| 0:36.1 | But the kids are back in school. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah, but the kids gonna be home by the time they get home now. |
| 0:40.4 | You're right. |
| 0:41.6 | So the summer Fridays is the job, but it's all right. They're going to be fine. A. |
| 0:47.0 | You're on your own. Hmm. |
| 0:52.0 | In the world you grow, |
| 0:55.0 | a few more years to go. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey, I don't know if y'all recognize the vocals or the song, but if you don't, I know y'all are scrambling right now like what is this how do I not know this it's |
| 1:07.7 | okay you gonna put them on yeah yeah Yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | We gonna get into it because by the end of this episode. |
| 1:20.0 | If y'all enough to make your phones will be flooded with these vocals. I promise you guys welcome to another |
| 1:27.1 | episode of See the Thing is Freshly Squee's Edition I'm your girl Mandy B and I'm |
| 1:31.9 | Bridget Kelly and we are here to give you some grown |
| 1:34.4 | honest and slightly toxic takes along with some really great music today |
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