Podcast EP.57 | Perfume Genius | Glory

EP.70 | Olivia Rogrigo | You seem pretty sad … – This Is Not Happening – An Album Of The Month Podcast

Welcome to Episode 70 of This Is Not Happening, an Album of the Month podcast. In Part 1, we do a deep drive review of our Album of the Month. This month Joey is VERY happy to bring 'You seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' the 3rd album by Olivia Rodrigo.In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month, taking inspiration from Olivia's love of and references to the Cure, the theme is 'Songs that reference other artists'.    — Part 1 | Album of the Month | Olivia Rodrigo |  You seem pretty sad … —Olivia is a force of nature. She is a song writing savant. She has a new album out, in case you didn't notice, this means we've got to talk about it. And there is a lot to talk about.Have a listen, tell us what you think.Listen to the original album here.Watch some of her videos here , particularly the singles from this album.Buy this album or some merch here.  Listen to the ridiculously brilliant Switched on Pop Podcast Episode.               — Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | Songs that reference other artists — Olivia references the Cure a number of times on this album. We've taken inspiration and chosen 'Songs that reference other artists' as our Spin It theme.The task is pick a track that fits the theme, the objective, get more 'spins' than your friends. We each pick four tracks for a 16 track play list . We then each pick select 1 track and ask the simple question 'Spin It Or Bin It'?Joey chose Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus.David chose Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder.Guy chose Destroy Rock & Roll by Mylo.Nolan chose Secret Wars I by The Last Emporer.What would you have chosen? What's missing from our playlist?We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/

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This month we struggle with very conscious bias when we discuss how much we love Perfume Genius’ new album Glory. Welcome to Episode 57 of This is Not Happening (TINH), an Album of the Month (AOTM) Podcast. 

In Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play ‘Spin it or Bin it’.  We pick a theme and each pick a song that represents that theme. We judge the selections by asking the question ‘Spin It or Bin It’?

In Part 1, Joey is in the seat and basically bangs on about how much he loves Perfume Genius.

In Part 2, we celebrate contemporary queer music and play Spin It or Bin It with the theme. Joey’s track is unfairly and poorly treated … as is David’s but two other bangers make up for it.

                                     —– Part 1 | Perfume Genius | ‘Glory’ —–

I love Perfume Genius. Always have … barring something horrific happening, I always will. I love him so much that I get nervous when a new album comes out. And this one is a belter. But is it for the fan-people or is there enough to attract and entertain newcomers?

Listen to the album, listen to the pod, tell us what you think.

• Listen to the album … HERE.
• Listen to the Soda Jerker podcast that we mention … HERE.
• Watch the AMAZING Tiny Desk Performance … HERE.
• Watch the No Front Teeth video we discuss … HERE.
• Buy some stuff … HERE.             

                             —– Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | ‘Contemporary Queer’ —–

Music has always been massive to the Gay and Queer community and has always been an interesting area of crossover. Has it changed? What ever, we’re here to celebrate.

• David chose ‘Cinderella’ by Model/Actriz.
• Joey chose ‘The Giver’ by Chappell Roan.
• Nolan chose ‘Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix’ by Hercules and Love Affair
• Guy chose ‘Tilted’ by Christine and the Queens.

Here is a link to our 16 track playlist of religion-inspired tracks – with the first 4 tracks being our picks for this month.