Victoria Monet: The Decade-Long Rise Behind Jaguar II
Victoria Monet spent more than a decade writing hits for Ariana Grande, Blackpink, Fifth Harmony and more before winning Best New Artist at age 34. This episode traces her path from Sacramento dance s...
2 Juli 18min
Ari Lennox: Walking Away From Dreamville to Find Her Voice
Ari Lennox went from driving an Uber and uploading tracks in 2009 to becoming Dreamville's first female artist, hitting number one on radio and selling out arenas. This episode follows her rise throug...
2 Juli 17min
Positions: How Ariana Grande Dominated Charts in Lockdown
Five months after declaring she would not release an album during quarantine, Ariana Grande dropped Positions, her most intimate and sexually explicit full-length to date. This episode examines how a ...
2 Juli 22min
Eternal Sunshine: The Breakup Album Born From a Strike
When the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike halted filming on Wicked, Ariana Grande slipped into the studio and made Eternal Sunshine, a deeply vulnerable album asking how to tell if you are in the right relations...
2 Juli 18min
Planet Her: Doja Cat's Masterpiece She Called a Cash Grab
Doja Cat's 2021 album Planet Her broke records and defined a cultural moment, yet two years later she dismissed it as mediocre pop and a cash grab. This episode digs into that contradiction and the me...
2 Juli 18min
Paint the Town Red: How an Idiom Traveled Two Centuries
The phrase paint the town red began with an English aristocrat's undocumented antics in the 1830s and eventually named a Doja Cat song on the album Scarlet. This episode is a linguistic archaeological...
2 Juli 17min
Good 4 U: The Shower Melody That Revived Rock
Olivia Rodrigo came up with Good 4 U in the shower and turned it into a pop-punk revenge anthem that shattered chart records and helped bring rock back to the mainstream. This episode examines the son...
2 Juli 19min
IVE: The K-Pop Group That Skipped the Underdog Story
Instead of the traditional K-pop underdog narrative, IVE debuted claiming they were already perfect and untouchable. This episode explores how Starship Entertainment built a fully formed six-member gr...
2 Juli 18min
