24 episodes
Everything Is Content We Are Grape
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- Society & Culture
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4.8 • 94 Ratings
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In a world where Everything Is Content - Beth McColl, Ruchira Sharma and Oenone are here to guide you through the stories that have ignited the online zeitgeist each week.
Films, viral long-reads, Instagram scandals, reality TV obsessions…: whether it's fine art or a TikTok trend, if you can post about it on the internet - then we can and will turn it into discourse.
Every week, Beth, Ruchira and Oenone will obsess over the pop-culture culture stories that fascinate us all and weigh-in on the conversations that they have incited online. Why are we so interested in these stories? And what does this say about us as we try to navigate life in the *real world*
Get in huns, we're about to make some content!
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Ep 23: The Met Gala, Dua Lipa and The Idea Of You
So, it was the Met Gala this week - we reckon our invites must have got lost in the post… send them special delivery next time, Anna! Join Beth, Ruchira and Oenone to discuss our favourite looks from the green carpet. We also take a look at some of the reviews of Dua Lipa’s new album Radical Optimism - are we witnessing the death of critical journalism? And then last but not least - we take a trip to rom-com town to discuss The Idea of You.
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DISNEY PLUS: The Walking Dead
APPLE PODCASTS: If Books Could Kill
SPOTIFY: If Books Could Kill
PRIME VIDEO: Fallout
VOGUE: “We Don’t Borrow – We Buy”: Law Roach
THE LINE OF BEST FIT: Absence dominates Dua Lipa’s dull and weightless Radical Optimism
BBC SOUNDS: Miss Me? - Dear Elton...
NEW STATESMAN: Everyone hates the critic
PASTE: Taylor Swift Strikes Out Looking on The Tortured Poets Department
PRIME VIDEO: The Idea Of You
MONICA HEISEY: Really Good, Actually
TIME: Reducing The Idea of You to Fan Fiction Is Another Example of Dismissing Women’s Art
THE CUT: Anne Hathaway is too hot for The Idea Of You
CURTIS SITTENFIELD: Romantic Comedy
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Everything Is Content is produced by Faye Lawrence for We Are Grape
Exec Producer: James Norman-Fyfe
Music: James Richardson
Photography: Rebecca Need-Meenar
Artwork: Joe Gardner
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Ep 22: Match Of The Slay - a deep dive into Challengers
Game, set, match (is that what they say in tennis?!) This week on Everything Is Content join Beth, Ruchira and Oenone as we discuss what may well be the film of the year so far - Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. We also dive into a debate that has fired up the running community and we discuss Chloe Burrows' new Channel 4 documentary - The Truth About Reality Love.
We loved chatting with you guys in the DMs about Taylor Swift last week - if you have anything to say to us get in touch @everythingiscontentpod!
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AUDIBLE: Green Wing Resuscitated
CHANNEL 4: Green Wing
TATLER: Every photograph from Lady Lola Bute’s spectacularly indulgent 25th birthday party
ROLLING STONE: Kendrick Did Everything He Needed to on ‘Euphoria’
THE GUARDIAN: Challengers review – Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance
GQ: How gay is challengers, really?
LA TIMES: Law Roach breaks down Zendaya’s tennis-inspired ‘Challengers’ looks and ‘method dressing’
YOUTUBE: Zendaya training for Challengers
RUNNER’S WORLD: When You Bandit a Race, You Ruin It For Everyone
CHANNEL 4: The Truth About Reality Love
MEG GOLDBERGER: How much money I made from my breakup series
OENONE FORBAT: Bad Influence
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Everything Is Content is produced by Faye Lawrence for We Are Grape
Exec Producer: James Norman-Fyfe
Music: James Richardson
Photography: Rebecca Need-Meenar
Artwork: Joe Gardner
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Eliza Clark - author of Penance and Boy Parts: Everything In Conversation
Well, what’s this then?! Welcome to the first edition of Everything In Conversation - where Beth, Ruchira and Oenone chat to the people behind the content that we’ve all been loving!
This week - we will be in conversation with Eliza Clark, the author of Boy Parts and Penance. We LOVED Penance when we read it as our book club choice - and we had loads of questions for Eliza - so we asked her to come and chat to us about the book that we all loved so much!
Was she a chronically online Tumblr girlie? Does she actually care about true crime? And what is it like when you get compared to your characters, especially when those characters do murders…
Penance is out in paperback this week on 2nd May. Grab your copy in your local bookshop or you can buy one here: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571371785-penance/
Follow Eliza on Instagram @fancyeliza
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Everything Is Content is produced by Faye Lawrence for We Are Grape
Exec Producer: James Norman-Fyfe
Music: James Richardson
Photography: Rebecca Need-Meenar
Artwork: Joe Gardner
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Ep 21: The internet has spoiled Baby Reindeer
Hello! We’ve got another episode of Everything Is Content for you - this week the internet has slightly soured the way we’re looking at Baby Reindeer, did we all miss the point of the show? Drake has been using AI in a diss track - is it ethically ambiguous or is this the new frontier of diss tracks? We also, of course, discuss Taylor Swift’s new album - The Tortured Poets Department. Has she managed to win over three non-Swifites?
If you want to understand more about the issue of stalking - listen to Ruchira's podcast Anatomy of A Stalker, which is available on all podcast platforms.
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NETFLIX: Ripley
WELLCOME COLLECTION: The Cult of Beauty (closes on 28th April)
BBC: 'Seagull Boy', nine, wins European screeching competition
VOGUE: Inside Victoria Beckham’s Star-Studded 50th Birthday Party
THE GUARDIAN: Spice Girls reunite at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party
DAVID BECKHAM: I mean come on x
THE GUARDIAN: The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer
PASTE: Taylor Swift Strikes Out Looking on The Tortured Poets Department
NEWSNIGHT: “I think of the uniqueness of Taylor Swift is that she speaks for an audience that is not always spoken for”
29Secrets: Taylor Swift Is Chevrolet: TTPD And Brand Evolution
PITCHFORK: Drake Taunts Kendrick Lamar Again on Diss Song With AI 2Pac and Snoop Dogg Verses
BILLBOARD: Tupac Shakur’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake Over Diss Track Featuring AI-Generated Tupac Voice
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@everythingiscontentpod
@beth_mccoll
@ruchira_sharma
@oenone
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Everything Is Content is produced by Faye Lawrence for We Are Grape
Exec Producer: James Norman-Fyfe
Music: James Richardson
Photography: Rebecca Need-Meenar
Artwork: Joe Gardner
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Ep 20: Dogs vs Children - who is allowed in the pub?
This week on Everything Is Content - Ruchira, Beth and Oenone have been glued to Netflix watching Richard Gadd’s new drama-thriller Baby Reindeer. Meanwhile, Coachella fashion has become increasingly uninspired, Joe Lycett’s been planting fake news and this week’s debate on X has been about whether pubs should be allowed to be ‘child free’.
Got something to say to us? Cool! Get involved with our Instagram @everythingiscontentpod - we’re also on TikTok under the same username!
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DAZED: Why ‘girl’s girl’ feminism is bullshit
SISTER WIVES
DAZED: Coachella is having a fashion identity crisis
THE GUARDIAN: Joe Lycett discloses four fake stories he planted in UK media
NEW STATESMAN: Joe Lycett’s self-serving fake news stunt
JOE LYCETT: More, More, More - How Do You Lycett? How Do You Lycett?
KYLE: Found My New Local
NETFLIX: Baby Reindeer
ANATOMY OF A STALKER: Apple Link
ANATOMY OF A STALKER: Spotify Link
DIGITAL SPY: Why Baby Reindeer's Teri was so important to the show
THE GUARDIAN: ‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’: Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer
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Follow us on Instagram:
@everythingiscontentpod
@beth_mccoll
@ruchira_sharma
@oenone
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Everything Is Content is produced by Faye Lawrence for We Are Grape
Exec Producer: James Norman-Fyfe
Music: James Richardson
Photography: Rebecca Need-Meenar
Artwork: Joe Gardner
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Ep 19: The Sexualisation of Former Child Stars
In the week that Jojo Siwa entered her bad gal era - here on Everything is Content we’re unpacking what it means for a former child star to graduate into adulthood. How does the media respond when child-stars reinvent themselves… and why is Jojo Siwa claiming to have invented gay pop? We also take a dive into a story that has lit up the timelines this week of a husband who ghosted his pregnant wife, and her crusade on Facebook to try and find him and serve him divorce papers. Do we have the right to disappear online, and does that go away if we do bad things?
If you want to chat to us - please head to our Instagram @everythingiscontentpod. We’re also now on TikTok (I KNOW, look at us keeping up with the modern technology) it’s @everythingiscontentpod there too. Please join us!
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TIKTOK: Nick White - Dull Co-Worker
SADLER’S WELLS: What’s On
BBC SOUNDS: Miss Me?
PEOPLE: JoJo Siwa Always Wanted to Have Her Miley Cyrus Bangerz Moment with New Look
VULTURE: Is JoJo Siwa’s ‘Karma’ a Flop or a Flop?
INQUIRER: She asked the internet to find husband who ‘ghosted’ her and their kids. He was tracked down within hours
LSE: Whatsapp Vigilantes
THE WEEK: 'Are We Dating the Same Guy?': do Facebook groups harm or help?
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Follow us on Instagram:
@everythingiscontentpod
@beth_mccoll
@ruchira_sharma
@oenone
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Everything Is Content is produced by Faye Lawrence for We Are Grape
Exec Producer: James Norman-Fyfe
Music: James Richardson
Photography: Rebecca Need-Meenar
Artwork: Joe Gardner
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Customer Reviews
Perfect pop culture commentary
The girls are great at having nuanced takes on the latest hot topics and I always feel smarter after listening to them - this is the podcast I recommend to everyone! I’ve got both my sisters on board and it’s made our group chats even better xx
Half baked thoughts and ideas but easy listening
Uninspired by their takes on topics e.g. re AI in music not considering (1) how AI works in terms of only replicating what’s gone before and even if AI could release an album it would only reflect the past of an artist and would never offer any future creative outputs or ideas meaning fans would likely not feel it worthy of holding in the same regard as an actual album made by an artist or (2) whether a voice is copyrightable in itself (hint - it’s not) so about what regulation may be desired to stop this from happening if people are uncomfortable) or discussing Taylor swifts album that they had admittedly not listened fully to (not saying people need to be positive about TS but at least have listened and have a unique take). Just always feels like scrolling through twitter on a topic thrown together and expected more interesting takes and independent thinking or don’t see the point in adding this into the podcast universe. Expected better as previous projects from these creators have delivered more nuance and insight and they’re compelling to listen to as a group
Love it!
Love the mix of topics and the girls are really engaging to. A good new find for me