I say hello (hello hello)! 🎶 We are SO EXCITED to bring you our episode on Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle’s “Yesterday,” the film where everyone in the world has forgotten the Beatles. Everyone, except Jack🕺🏾🎸 But are the Beatles REALLY transcendental, or is their music culturally specific? To find out, we are joined by our FIRST EVER GUEST Lucy !!! who did not grow up with the Beatles and so can prove definitively whether or not their music hits the same as it did in the 60s 🐞🐜🐝🕷️
We had an absolute blast discussing the ethics of public proposals, why you should never meet your heroes, the cursed timeline where beards don’t exist, whether Ed Sheeran is the greatest singer-songwriter of our time, and having your cake and eating it too 🍰
📝 Shownotes: 📝
📽️ “Yesterday” (2019) by Danny Boyle; Screenplay by Richard Curtis
📼 Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMFll3aIbmo)
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Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” (sites.tufts.edu/english292b/files/2012/01/Barthes-The-Death-of-the-Author.pdf)
Edelman, Lee. “The Future is Kid Stuff.” No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
“Ed Sheeran Admits He Was Actually Third Choice” by Daniel Welsh (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ed-sheeran-yesterday-not-first-choice_uk_60b36aece4b06da8bd77cd5d)
“The History of Featured Rappers and Other Featured Artists in Pop Songs” by Chris Molanphy (https://slate.com/culture/2015/07/the-history-of-featured-rappers-and-other-featured-artists-in-pop-songs.html)
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“The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand - Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 2/9/64” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs)
Troy Meets Levar Burton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhOG3XwX9Yw)
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You’re Wrong About: “Princess Diana Part 2: The Wedding” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/princess-diana-part-2-the-wedding/id1380008439?i=1000493736663)
You’re Wrong About: “Yoko Ono Broke Up the Beatles” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yoko-ono-broke-up-the-beatles/id1380008439?i=1000465289885)
You’re Wrong About: “After School Specials” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/afterschool-specials/id1380008439?i=1000465289967)
1619: Episode 3: “The Birth of American Music” (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/podcasts/1619-black-american-music-appropriation.html)
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Some of Ringo’s MS paint art (https://www.ringostarrart.com/gallery/artwork-2005/)
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https://boxd.it/KnmYH
https://letterboxd.com/kun/films/reviews/rated/1%C2%BD/for/2019/
Recommendations:
🎹 “I Still Have Faith In You”, “Don’t Shut Me Down” from “Voyage” by ABBA (Lucy)
🎹 “Rät”, “Feel Better” from “Public Void” by Penelope Scott (Anna)
🎬 Berberian Sound Studio (2012) by Peter Strickland (Lili)
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🎹Intromusic🎹:
"Wall" by Jahzaar, licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
🎹Outro Music🎹:
“Waterbeat” by DJ Lengua, licenced under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
🎹Transition Music🎹:
“friendlyguitarsound j008b.wav” by j008b – Pixabay
“Car horn beep beep two beeps honk honk” by AmishRob – Pixabay
