Transcript Pre-Roll: Listener Drive Promo and Content Warning Then, producer Harsha Nahata meets with two Indian diaspora culture writers to compare how - even with their differing upbringings and vastly different relationships to Bollywood movies - they began to question the role and the power of the Bollywood industry. In this episode, we're sharing three conversations about the need to see and hear ourselves in popular culture - and the limitations of what pop culture can do to meet those needs.Īfter Cathy chats with Daphne about their Asian teen idols in music, our intern Alex Chun calls up his favorite OnlyFans star, Cody Seiya, to unpack how watching queer porn has played such an outsized role in their own understanding of intimacy. not just about S.H.E., but about why idolizing a Taiwanese girl group was so important to young Daphne in the first place.
So years later, when Daphne realized that those greatest hits were actually covers of American pop songs by Destiny’s Child and the Legally Blonde soundtrack, she suddenly had a lot of questions. Growing up in Ohio, she’d listen to their greatest hits before falling asleep, clinging to their pop songs as one of her only genuine links to the island and the culture her family had left far behind. Daphne Chen always held a special place in her heart for the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E.
