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Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

The Guardian

Every week, Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph digs deep into the stories we can’t stop talking about. If you love pop and internet culture, and want to get into how it's shaping and impacting our lives, then subscribe to this show. We talk about things like: funny memes, showbiz stories, internet culture, celebrity news, gossip, Tiktok, Twitter, X, true crime stories, beauty, relationships, dating, hit TV shows, films, movies, Netflix, entertainment, American culture, AI, social media, Black British culture, influencers, content creators, fashion, UK and US music, reality TV, Harry and Meghan, royals, Love Island, politics (with a small p), Hollywood, society, ethics, Disney, new ideas and themes, trends and trending stories, hot takes, and trends in music, fashion, TV and film. Pop Culture with Chante Joseph is funny, chatty and opinionated. Expect to hear: good conversations, clever takes on popular stories, the ‘why’ behind big pop culture stories, why is everyone talking about…, what pop culture gets right and wrong, in conversation with…, reviews of the year, moments of the week, controversy… New episodes drop every Thursday.

  • 26 minutes
    The Pop Culture summer wrap-up
    For our final episode of the season, Chanté sits down with podcasters Rose Frimpong and Temi Oladimeji to chat through a summer of music feuds, dramatic TV and oversharing on TikTok
    8 August 2024, 4:00 am
  • 26 minutes 19 seconds
    The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood
    What’s the deal with celebrities promoting cryptocurrencies? This week, Chanté chats to actor and crypto-skeptic Ben McKenzie, star of The OC and Gotham, about how cryptocurrencies infiltrated Hollywood and his transition from actor to investigative journalist
    1 August 2024, 4:00 am
  • 25 minutes 17 seconds
    Can Strictly survive its biggest scandal?
    This week, Chanté sits down with pop culture writer and Strictly Come Dancing fan Michael Hogan to discuss the latest Strictly scandal and why the show is such a big deal in the UK
    25 July 2024, 4:00 am
  • 26 minutes 40 seconds
    Writer-director Rapman on creating Netflix’s global smash hit Supacell
    This week, Chanté Joseph meets Rapman, the writer and director of Supacell, one of the most watched shows on Netflix, to discuss what it takes to make a hit series, how he’s redefining the superhero genre and what he plans to do next
    18 July 2024, 5:39 am
  • 24 minutes 1 second
    The ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl and the making of TikTok stars
    Hailey Welch, AKA the ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl, is everywhere after her viral street interview. Chanté Joseph talks to the journalists Alaina Demopoulos and Cat Zhang about Welch’s overnight celebrity, the proliferation of street interviews on the platform and what this means for ‘virality’ in 2024
    11 July 2024, 4:00 am
  • 28 minutes 10 seconds
    The summer of green music festivals
    It’s festival season! But are festivals any good for the environment? This week Chanté chats to Lewis Jamieson of Music Declares Emergency and the Grammy-nominated House DJ Jayda G about how festivals can become more sustainable and why the music industry can be an important voice in the fight for climate justice. Jayda G’s documentary Blue Carbon can be watched here
    4 July 2024, 4:00 am
  • 26 minutes 38 seconds
    Are we experiencing Gamergate 2.0?
    Ten years ago, misogyny in gaming reached new heights with Gamergate - an online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against female journalists and developers in the gaming industry. A decade later, Chanté Joseph talks to the Guardian’s video game editor Keza McDonald and Ash Parrish, a video game reporter for The Verge about what’s changed in the industry and why some believe we’re seeing a resurgence of this online hate campaign
    27 June 2024, 4:00 am
  • 29 minutes 41 seconds
    Are we in a new era of queer female pop?
    With Billie Eilish’s Lunch in the charts and queer female artists winning big at this year’s Grammy awards, Chanté Joseph speaks to the queer music writers Charis McGowan and Sean B O’Neill about the trend for authentic and sexually explicit queer female pop music, and how we got here
    20 June 2024, 4:00 am
  • 23 minutes 21 seconds
    Love Island and looksmaxxing: how are male beauty standards changing?
    As Love Island returns, Chanté Joseph speaks to former contestant Nas Majeed and Guardian writer Simon Usborne, about the increasing pressure to achieve the perfect male body
    13 June 2024, 4:00 am
  • 23 minutes 38 seconds
    Taylor Swift: cultural icon or turbo-capitalist?
    As Swift’s economy-shifting Eras tour comes to the UK, Chanté speaks to journalist and fan (but not ‘Swiftie’) Elle Hunt about the singer’s journey from country star to billionaire and asks whether her world domination is good for the music industry
    6 June 2024, 4:00 am
  • 31 minutes 22 seconds
    Matthew Perry death, and Britney’s memoir – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Following the shocking news of Matthew Perry’s death, Chanté speaks to the Guardian’s Zoe Williams about how he captured the spirit of a generation. Plus, music journalist Alim Kheraj on Britney Spears’s memoir.
    2 November 2023, 5:00 am
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