TikTok bops and the transformation of pop

Our first episode on TikTok discussed the app as a cultural phenomenon, but what about *art*? We look at how music has shaped TikTok and how the app has come to rule the charts. Also, Elizabeth progresses her redemption arc.

Show Notes

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• It’s been a long time since we talked about pop music
• RIP CJYR, radio station of Karen’s youth
• Also RIP Video Hits and Good Rockin’ Tonite
• Billboard Hot 100
• Hit Parade on one-hit wonders
• One Hit Wonderland by Todd in the Shadows
• Mothica
• Mothica’s duck kettle 
• Laxed [SIREN BEAT] by Jawsh 685
• Jason Derulo’s Savage Love, which made Todd in the Shadows’s worst hit songs of 2020
• Eyes Blue Like The Atlantic
• Eyes Blue Like The Atlantic, Pt. 2
• The Powfu hit with the beabadobee hook 
• Lil Nas X, who is not a one-hit wonder, loves Fenty, and designs fashion
• Megan Thee Stallion #bodychallenge
• The Karens episode, where we talked about internet shorthand 
• Example of TikTok outfit transitions 
• List of TikTok music trends
• If the world was ending, you’d come over, right? No.
• Hayloft on TikTok
• Space Girl by Frances Forever
• Our feelings on TikTok are more nuanced than before

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A sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20. In each episode, Elizabeth, a teenager, explains a thing to Karen, her mother. And Karen tells Elizabeth how that thing relates to something she knows. Maybe.