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EP.70 | Olivia Rodrigo | You seem pretty sad …

EP. 73 | Dahi | Black Boy (Alternative) – This Is Not Happening – An Album Of The Month Podcast

Welcome to Episode 73 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 Nolan has chosen an producer and artist that was on none of our radars, Dahi. He's the producer behind many massive artists including Kendrick Lamar and has released his first 'solo' album Black Boy (Alternative).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 last months focus on Phoebe Bridgers, we are picking tracks by 'SuperGroups'.Part 1 | Album of the Month | Dahi | Black Boy (Alternative):He may not be the first SuperProducer that you might think of but its hard to deny that Dahi meets the definition. He's produced for Kendrick, SZA, Travis Scott, Mac Miller, Childish Gambino, Madonna and Dr. Dre. But now he becomes the creative focal point with his debut artist release. The album is many things but it's nothing like I expected it to be. Dahi himself described the solo project as 'African Radiohead' which I feel is weird and misplaced but apparently the internet has much to say on the topic.Join us as we unpack this interesting and intriguing album.Read the Guardian's review for a bit of background here.Read this rare interview on Music Tech to learn more from Dahi.If you'd prefer to watch an interview … Saving Connie has it covered.This playlist reminds you how prolific Dahi is.Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | SuperGroupsThe theme this month, inspired by Phoebe Bridgers Boy Genius side project is the Super Group. We are defining SuperGroup as a collection of previously well known solo musicians or members of other groups who form a named, side project with other solo musicians or band members.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'?Guy chose | Getting Away With It | ElectronicJoey chose | 'The Truth' | Handsome Boy Modelling SchoolDavid chose | 7/4 Shoreline | Broken Social SceneNolan chose | Definition | Black StarWe've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/
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  2. EP.72 | Phoebe Bridgers | Lost Weekend
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  4. EP.70 | Olivia Rogrigo | You seem pretty sad …
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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.

               — 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’?

What would you have chosen? What’s missing from our playlist?

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