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What Makes for a Great Celebrity Profile?

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Writing in-depth features about stars can be an art form. But it’s been changing in recent years. Guests: The New York Times Magazine's Vanessa Grigoriadis; GQ's Zach Baron.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the New York Times

0:04.2

podcast, you're nothing meaningful was ever achieved in 45 minutes at the

0:07.4

chatto Marmont of music news and criticism.

0:10.1

I'm your host John Caramonica.

0:18.0

Going to the drill boomer and want some more.

0:21.0

Going to the drill up but the ap, yeah, flying on the water like a jiskey.

0:23.0

Yeah, I'm trying to fuck you on your best tea.

0:26.0

Jopin with this also do not test me.

0:28.0

Yeah.

0:29.0

So on this week's podcast, we're going to talk about celebrity profiling access journalism and how magazines and print publications and media in general deal with the famous.

0:45.0

But before, just a quick, quick segue,

0:47.7

the fashion week was last week,

0:49.6

and I just wanted to note a couple things. I saw a bunch of really cool and interesting shows a lot of tension between

0:58.5

vulnerability and distress a lot of clothes that looked like they'd been to war.

1:05.0

But I wanted to talk just for a second about the music,

1:08.0

because there were a few shows I saw that I thought using music in really clever or intriguing ways.

1:14.0

First, V-files had a big event at the Barclay Center

1:17.6

and there were a bunch of performances.

1:20.0

It sprinkled in between the runway portions of the show and A track was DJing and so that's one way and that was that was a lot of fun.

1:27.0

I also want to talk about gauntlet Chang who played the strokes which which made me laugh.

1:33.5

It made me wonder if I was allowed to laugh at a fashion show,

1:36.0

but the strokes, that come back, I guess,

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