How Kim Kardashian Turned Us All Into Content Creators
5/21/202639 min
This week on Infamous, author M.J. Corey joins Vanessa and Natalie to talk about her provocative new book, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto. Together, they unpack how the Kardashian era reshaped faces via plastic surgery, and about the way ordinary people document, brand, monetize, and perform their own lives online. For more from MJ, follow her on Instagram: @mjcorey. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsMJ Corey· Guest0:00
Where is Daredevil?
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:02
I'm right here. Don't miss the return of Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again. So what's next? I feel liberated. We're gonna take this city back. Over-medicated. In an all-new season, now streaming only on Disney+. They're hunting us. It's time we started hunting them. I can work with that. That nobody believes in. This should be tons of fun. Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again, now streaming only on Disney+.
Speaker 30:29
Campsite Media.
Natalie Robehmed· Host0:33
[crickets chirping] [upbeat music] Welcome back to Infamous, everyone. So if you're wondering when we're getting back to heavier topics, next week we're going to have something quite complex and weighty. But for this week, I'd like to start by saying if you're a certain level of online or you happen to be a woman who has paid attention to her aging face recently, you may have seen some conversation around rich face. That is, the face that rich people almost universally seem to have now. Think Lauren Sanchez or Christy Noem or even Emily Blunt in the latest Devil Wears Prada. As Amy Odell, who's been on our podcast talking about Anna Wintour and Gwyneth Paltrow, both of whom she wrote unauthorized biographies about, opined in The New York Times, quote, "A rich face is stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions, and plumped with filler or implants or a person's own grafted fat,"