Episode 23: A Tale of Two Girl Groups: Little Mix and Blackpink ft. Victor Carlesi
Shoutout to our Lovesick Girls! Little Mix in your Area! And it’s called Blackpink Magic! Ok we’ll stop now.
Little Mix. Blackpink. Two of the biggest bands of all time - and yet, so much of the U.S. audience still knows so little about these pop superstars.
This week we are BLESSED to welcome our special guest, Victor Carlesi. Find him on instagram at instagram.com/victor_car_bakes to enjoy more of his hot pop takes and comedy stylings.
What is it about Little Mix and Blackpink that just *works*? We break down each band and draw some larger conclusions about pop music today.
As promised, here was the “homework” we did for each band before we recorded.
BLACKPINK:
This is the "dance performance" for How You Like That. You do NOT need to watch the whole thing (unless you enjoy it) but I want you to see that most singles/music videos have a dance video that accompany them!
Ok this is super meta but: watch the girls react to the trailer for their Netflix doc, which I just watched and LOVED. I was gonna ask you to watch the trailer but this is more fun and gives you a glimpse of their personalities!
LITTLE MIX: VICTOR’S HOMEWORK FOR THE B-SIDES
So since jesy nelson recently quit Im gonna add some videos specific to her and her issues shes dealt with since being in the band
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFHH0C0tYfG_T9lAQdt0Fuj14oI2oWzE6
There’s also a whole doc she made on suicide called Odd One Out. Idk how to access it tho. It was BBC https://youtu.be/idyXOMAZOUg
Super cute and bubbly honest interview from 2015 after Black Magic promoting their album Get Weird
Black Magic (their first US hit) inspired by the film The Craft (also Perrie wears a Pittsburgh Pirates cap in this which is where im from/live)
This music video and song is from the album Glory Days 2016 which they promoted alongside ariana grande on her Dangerous woman tour (its a fairly political video for a girl group! Featuring drag queens willam, courtney Act and Alaska Thunderfuck)
LM5 2018 was randomly a flop??? This was the biggest moment from it, a Nicki feature for basically a god is a woman rip off. They injected themselves into the cardi and nicki beef. Of course this album has a ton of great pop, they experimented with a ton of new sounds this era. Their song Wasabi also popped off on tiktok which ended the era strong in 2019.
Sweet Melody from their most recent album Confetti 2020 (honestly needs no explanation, if you love pop you’ll love this song and video)
This just shows how much they ACTUALLY love each other after years and years of being together
This is soooo cute its their Elle song association
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