Pondering one of my favorite segments from the podcast, "Las Culturistas" and what cultural moments and touchstones have shaped my niche interests and lifelong loves.
i looove hearing answers to this q but somehow hadn't really thought of it for myself! my list would include: buffy the vampire slayer, bruce springsteen - born in the USA album (literal first music i heard and loved that was not country music from my parents), paramore, tegan and sara, wicked, jesus christ superstar (i wore the 96 london cast double CD out and yes my friend and i acted the whole musical out with beanie babies), also my mom taking me to see musicals/plays at random high schools in my county as cheap exposure to lots of theater as a kid.
if I had to actually pick one…I don’t know if I could lmao the list I originally brainstormed was much longer. loveeee this list and also love seeing you also having wicked on yours. acting out JCS with beanie babies is so real!!! need to know who played mary magdalene 😂 omggggg your mom is actually amazing for that 🥹 every day I am grateful for middle school theater really igniting my love for the arts in a tangible way.
Been thinking about this all day, think I've arrived at conclusions: Sailor Moon, pro wrestling, TRL, I Love the...., Daria, Degrassi (ONLY years 2001-2010...I think I checked out after Degrassi Goes Hollywood), Jersey Shore, Burlesque (2010), Pose (season 1).
LOVE this list! Spiritually similar to TRL but I almost included VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown and further where I first heard and saw the video for Chasing Pavements. I miss those types of shows. Degrassi Goes Hollywood feels like it was a fever dream lmao. Burlesque omgggg iconic. S1 of Pose was truly so good. One day, I need to sit and watch all of Daria.
Yessss, Reader here! I also have thought about this question and I have two answers, one which is also musical related: the movie musical Grease and the Spice Girls, specially seeing them in concert and watching them sing the song Naked in nude colored bodysuits sitting backwards on chairs on stage. IDK why that specific image forever seared itself into my cultural brain but it truly spoke *performance* !!
Yayyy welcome! Omg, love Grease and almost included more movie musicals here but didn't want to overload that section lol. I love the Spice Girls answer because it's so specific to you!!!! *Performance* is so real!!! I feel that way about Whitney and Sandra. It can be almost hard to explain, but something about what they are delivering just strikes a chord in you!
Ahhh!! I think about this question all the time. You’re so real for so many of these but Whitney and Miss Congeniality?? Yeah we were destined to be friends.
It’s sooooo hard I could have doubled this list honestly but I tried to curate it lol!!!! Omg fried green tomatoes!!! Kathy Bates icon!!!! That’s So Raven is so real.
It’s so hard! I feel like I could have a list for each stage of my life 😂 That’s So Raven (and also the Amanda Show) truly informed so much of my adolescent comedy!!!!!
“MPGIS walked so Barbie (2023) could run”…exactly 🙂↕️🙂↕️
you get it 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
i looove hearing answers to this q but somehow hadn't really thought of it for myself! my list would include: buffy the vampire slayer, bruce springsteen - born in the USA album (literal first music i heard and loved that was not country music from my parents), paramore, tegan and sara, wicked, jesus christ superstar (i wore the 96 london cast double CD out and yes my friend and i acted the whole musical out with beanie babies), also my mom taking me to see musicals/plays at random high schools in my county as cheap exposure to lots of theater as a kid.
if I had to actually pick one…I don’t know if I could lmao the list I originally brainstormed was much longer. loveeee this list and also love seeing you also having wicked on yours. acting out JCS with beanie babies is so real!!! need to know who played mary magdalene 😂 omggggg your mom is actually amazing for that 🥹 every day I am grateful for middle school theater really igniting my love for the arts in a tangible way.
lol i wish i could remember which beanies played which but it was prob difft every time
hahaha we love an ensemble!!!
My brothers Wi-Fi password is ‘RuralJuror,’ too good to forget, too hard to hack!
HAHAHAHA I love that!!!
The Most Popular Girls in School!!!! Yes!
Right!!! I watched a few episodes before writing this, and honestly... still good lol
As a publicist you had me at the headline — instant subscribe
omg welcome fellow publicist!!!!! appreciate the subscribe 😇
Been thinking about this all day, think I've arrived at conclusions: Sailor Moon, pro wrestling, TRL, I Love the...., Daria, Degrassi (ONLY years 2001-2010...I think I checked out after Degrassi Goes Hollywood), Jersey Shore, Burlesque (2010), Pose (season 1).
LOVE this list! Spiritually similar to TRL but I almost included VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown and further where I first heard and saw the video for Chasing Pavements. I miss those types of shows. Degrassi Goes Hollywood feels like it was a fever dream lmao. Burlesque omgggg iconic. S1 of Pose was truly so good. One day, I need to sit and watch all of Daria.
Yessss, Reader here! I also have thought about this question and I have two answers, one which is also musical related: the movie musical Grease and the Spice Girls, specially seeing them in concert and watching them sing the song Naked in nude colored bodysuits sitting backwards on chairs on stage. IDK why that specific image forever seared itself into my cultural brain but it truly spoke *performance* !!
Yayyy welcome! Omg, love Grease and almost included more movie musicals here but didn't want to overload that section lol. I love the Spice Girls answer because it's so specific to you!!!! *Performance* is so real!!! I feel that way about Whitney and Sandra. It can be almost hard to explain, but something about what they are delivering just strikes a chord in you!
Ahhh!! I think about this question all the time. You’re so real for so many of these but Whitney and Miss Congeniality?? Yeah we were destined to be friends.
OMG I need to know what your response(s) would be!!! UGHHHH I knew you had taste!!!
AHHHH! It’s so tricky to narrow it down but going with my gut (in no particular order), and not including Miss Congeniality because duh:
- Romy & Michele’s Highschool Reunion
- The Breakfast Club
- Erin Brockovitch
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- That’s So Raven (!!!!)
It’s sooooo hard I could have doubled this list honestly but I tried to curate it lol!!!! Omg fried green tomatoes!!! Kathy Bates icon!!!! That’s So Raven is so real.
It’s so hard! I feel like I could have a list for each stage of my life 😂 That’s So Raven (and also the Amanda Show) truly informed so much of my adolescent comedy!!!!!
THE AMANDA SHOWWWW omg so much of Amanda Bynes catalogue. I hope she’s doing well. She gave us so much.
YES!! She was out there WORKING for us!!! She’s The Man?! Iconic
The fact that you posted this on April 25 is absolute perfection.
STOP! I did not even realize beforehand 😭 it was a total coincidence but choosing to believe the starts were meant to align