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There's so much great music that it can be overwhelming to try and keep up with what's coming out today, let alone important music from years past. Each week on...
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There's so much great music that it can be overwhelming to try and keep up with what's coming out today, let alone important music from years past.
Each week on 'At First Listen,' cohosts Andrew and Dominique dive deep into music new and old that to broaden their musical horizons and (hopefully) discover new favorites.
Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!
Connect with 'At First Listen' on Instagram @AtFirstListenPodcast.
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Each week on 'At First Listen,' cohosts Andrew and Dominique dive deep into music new and old that to broaden their musical horizons and (hopefully) discover new favorites.
Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!
Connect with 'At First Listen' on Instagram @AtFirstListenPodcast.
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17 APR 2025 · We have a very serious conversation about gender conformance, surrounding a very unserious song by Detroit-based rapper Rob Apollo.
Apollo's song "SHE / THEY" has been circulating on TikTok lately, mainly due to a racy lyric in the chorus that you'd think self-righteous Zoomers would hate.
Dominique and Andrew discuss what teens, tweens and queer people find so fun about the song, and why no one is actually as mad about pronouns as you think they are.
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10 APR 2025 · Diamond returns to At First Listen to dig into her favorite album of 2024, Sabrina Carpenter's mega-breakthrough Short n' Sweet.
With hits like "Espresso," "Please, Please, Please," "Taste" and "Bed Chem," Short n' Sweet is brimming with personality.
Diamond says there are multiple hits on the album that she's yet to tire of, and she doesn't meet much resistance from Andrew and Dominique.
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(Episode 31.)
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4 APR 2025 · In this mini episode we're focusing on "The Giver," Chappell Roan's attempt at a lesbian country song that's making waves in the pop music world.
Is "The Giver" a legitimate country song or is it a mere novelty — or is it branding? Is any country music legitimate? We also discuss why Chappell Roan is allowed to “go country,” but it was controversial when Beyoncé or Lil Nas X did it.
We talk about Chappell's recent SNL performance, and how "The Giver" is makng Dominique more of a fan but Andrew possibly less of a fan?
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27 MAR 2025 · We're sorting through Lady Gaga's seventh studio pop album Mayhem with Gaga superfan and iHeartRadio personality Nick Gomez.
Nick is an almost lifelong Little Monster, who credits Gaga with inspiring the love of pop music that steered him towards a career in radio, where he can be heard at night on Hot 99.5FM, Washington D.C.'s #1 Hit Music Station, and in the afternoon on Pride Radio.
Andrew and Dominique prod Nick about Mayhem's place in Gaga's catalog and he provides all the answers!
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(Episode 30.)
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20 MAR 2025 · UCBLK's Justin Catchens joins us to celebrate one of his favorite albums of the '00s, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, the debut album by the Chicago-based rapper-turned-MIT-and-Johns Hopkins University professor!
Food & Liquor is as dense with prose as a classic work of literature, and we do our best to wrap our heads around the storytelling and social/political messages in Lupe's lyrics. We also discuss Lupe's connection to the 'conscious rap' genre, why this album was his commercial peak and how hip hop never fully embraced him.
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(Episode 29.)
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13 MAR 2025 · In the second episode our new cohosts recorded together, Andrew gauges Dominique's taste for the hard stuff with one of his favorite metal albums from last decade, Deftones' 2010 mid-career masterpiece Diamond Eyes — by far the most extreme-sounding record we've discussed on the show.
We explore why this album was a turning point for the Deftones, why it was the record that converted Andrew to a fan, its place in the "metal" genre and how excited we are to see Deftones on their first arena headlining tour this spring!
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(Episode 28.)
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7 MAR 2025 · New York metal singer and rapper Mizzie from the X introduces us to Doja Cat's debut album, Amala.
We explore Doja's complicated persona and reckless online presence. Mizzie explains how Doja's freewheeling art continually inspires her in hip hop, heavy metal and beyond.
Mizzie has released two albums with her metal band Dishonest Escape and last year she launched her rap career with the debut single, "Ivy."
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(Episode 27.)
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27 FEB 2025 · Talkin’ ‘Tok - For the second in our bonus series about viral songs on social media, we get into the newfound popularity of “Lockjaw,” an album cut from Sir Mix-A-Lot’s 1992 Mack Daddy album.
The song has become a favorite in social media’s ‘makeover’/‘glowup’ genre of videos, so naturally, the conversation turns to mewing, mogging, maxing out, and other Internet sad boy terms that Andrew has never heard.
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20 FEB 2025 · We're taking a special look at one of the greatest singer-songwriters America ever produced: Bill Withers.
With ubiquitous hits like "Lean on Me," "Ain't No Sunshine," "Just the Two of Us" and "Lovely Day," so many of Bill's songs are taken for granted because of how ingrained they are in American culture. We take a special look at Bill's second studio album, Still Bill, explore his late start in music and his early retirement from it.
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(Episode 26.)
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18 FEB 2025 · Talkin’ ‘Tok - Introducing our new series looking a social media’s latest viral songs.
In this first edition, we discuss the power of short form user-created social media content and then take a look at the song “Peggy” by viral lesbian financial dominatrix Ceechynaa.
Dominique interprets some of the most perplexing British slang in Ceechynaa's lyrics and explains how users are appropriating "Peggy" in their own content, and why they might be relating to the song. Andrew thinks of something nice to say before politely considering Ceechynaa's economic stances: is "Peggy" a metaphor for socialism?
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There's so much great music that it can be overwhelming to try and keep up with what's coming out today, let alone important music from years past. Each week on...
show more
There's so much great music that it can be overwhelming to try and keep up with what's coming out today, let alone important music from years past.
Each week on 'At First Listen,' cohosts Andrew and Dominique dive deep into music new and old that to broaden their musical horizons and (hopefully) discover new favorites.
Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!
Connect with 'At First Listen' on Instagram @AtFirstListenPodcast.
show less
Each week on 'At First Listen,' cohosts Andrew and Dominique dive deep into music new and old that to broaden their musical horizons and (hopefully) discover new favorites.
Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!
Connect with 'At First Listen' on Instagram @AtFirstListenPodcast.
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| Author | Andrew Magnotta |
| Organization | iHeartRadio |
| Categories | Music Commentary , Comedy , Music Interviews |
| Website | - |
| andrewmagnotta@iheartmedia.com |
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