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SRSLY is hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s web editor and editorial assistant. We’re on Twitter as @c_crampton and @annaleszkie, where between us we post a heady mixture of Serious Journalism, excellent gifs and regularly ask questions J K Rowling needs to answer. The podcast is also on Twitter @srslypod if you’d like to @ us with your appreciation.
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The Links
On One Direction:
One Direction fans are fiercely intelligent. From day one, they engineered the band’s success on their own terms: demonstrating their appetite for the boys’ music on social media sealed the original record deal; calling out the band’s management for tweeting from their accounts forced a closer relationship between the boys as individuals and their fans; downloading specific songs multiple times ensured they would get radio play and a place in the charts. When One Direction unequivocally thank their fans for their success, it goes beyond the usual media-approved cliché, because it is unavoidably, undeniably true. One Direction is a towering monument to the power of teenage girls. It is a phenomenon so much greater than the four or five mediocre men that constitute it.”
Anna has written a great piece about the One Direction fandom and her own relationship with it.
You should also check out the 1D starter playlist she made for Caroline a while back, and listen to SRSLY #1, where Caroline listens for the first time.
Samantha Hunt’s amazing essay “There Is Only One Direction” for New York Magazine is here.
On Who Killed Elsie Frost?:
You can find all the episodes and more info here.
This Guardian report has some useful background to the case.
On Paper Towns:
Watch the trailer:
Here is John Green’s answer on Manic Pixie Dream Girls and his story.
He’s also written more on this subject here.
On Broad City:
There are clips and stuff on their YouTube channel.
Our colleague Stephanie Boland has written about why you should be watching Broad City.
Your questions:
If you have thoughts you want to share on anything we’ve discussed, or questions you want to ask us, please email us on srslypod[at]gmail.com, or @ us on Twitter @srslypod, or get in touch via tumblr here.
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See you next week!
PS If you missed #6, check it out here.
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