BFG Podcast #141: We talk about J. Lo, Bob Marley, and Truman Capote

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Episode notes

This week's show gets right into what's important in our culture. Host Neal Pollack welcomes Jennifer Lopez obsessive Adam Hirschfelder to the podcast, and he is all about 'This Is Me...Now,' J. Lo's music video and album that has recast J. Lo's image as someone who's both ironically and unironically finding herself. She has learned to love herself and Ben Affleck, and the video, airing on Amazon Prime, features her in therapy and also dancing on the set of Singin' In The Rain. Neal can't quite suss out what the big deal is about J. Lo, but Adam, who has some regional identification with the former Jenny from the Block, says her great subject is the nature of celebrity itself. We don't know if it's that calculated, but maybe it is.

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Keywords
J. Lo,Bob MarleyTruman Capote