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26 October 2015

SRSLY #16: Lorde, lobsters and lonely hearts

On the pop culture podcast this week, we discuss

By Caroline Crampton

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The Links

On The Lobster

Ryan Gilbey’s review of the film.

Mark Kermode and Peter Bradshaw‘s reviews at The Guardian.

On Lorde

The videos for Magnets and Yellow Flicker Beat.

This interview by the wonderful Tavi Gevinson.

On As Time Goes By

We love the outtakes from the show.

Next week:

Caroline is reading the seminal feminist memoir, I Love Dick.

Your questions:

We loved reading out your emails this week. 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. We also have Facebook now.

Music

The music featured this week, in order of appearance, is:

The B-52’s – Rock Lobster

Disclosure ft. Lorde – Magnets

Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat (Kanye West Rework)

Our theme music is “Guatemala – Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons.

See you next week!

PS If you missed #15, check it out here.

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