Introducing One of Us
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Hey, it's Andrea Dunlop. This week, we got to talk to my wonderful producer, Mariah Gossett. And today, I wanted to share one of her other extremely fun projects here on the feed. One of Us with Finn and Chris is a comedy interview podcast hosted by Finn Argus and Chris Renfro.

Finn and Chris are two delightful, hilarious actors and best friends who you may recognize from the other two, Queer as Folk and The L Word Generation Q. On One of Us, they welcome some of today's most exciting LGBTQIA plus artists and friends to join them on an improvised adventure through a new world each week. Recent guests include folks like Dylan Mulvaney, ER Fightmaster, Sherry Cola, and Meryl

me. And let me tell you, this was absolutely the most fun I have ever had doing a podcast interview. Finn and Chris are just wonderful and so, so funny. So you can listen to the full episode on the One of Us feed wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is completely unhinged in the best possible way. So do go listen to it as well as their other episodes. It is such a fun show. So without further ado, here is a clip from that episode.

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We've learned about your TikTok. We know about your podcast. Looks like this corridor is never ending, so we got to talk about some other stuff. I would love to know sort of like what Kool-Aid are you drinking right now? Like what, if anything, are you completely obsessed with? Oh, yeah. I am drinking the Katy Perry Haterade. Oh, cue the fireworks. Get into it. No, when you said Katy Perry for a second, I went...

What if I was like, I love her. She is feminism 2024. It's the rest of you that don't understand satire. I would have spontaneously turned into an actual ice cube. And you would have had to sit, sat here and thawed me out with your torch for like a half an hour at the very least. It's hard to thaw things out in a freezer. I'll tell you that much. I feel like...

Katy Perry has always seemed kind of off to me. And there's always just been an off. She had some bangers. No one can take that away from her. She's had some fun songs. But this new song, have you guys heard it? Have you watched the video? Have you gone down this piece of the corridor? I've seen a clip, but I haven't heard the full song or seen the full video. What's going on? Why don't you fill us in? So her new single is called Woman's World.

It's a woman's world and you're lucky to be living in it. And I'm with it so far. Ms. Perry, I'm a woman. I don't think it's our world. I think we're on the brink of having like all our rights taken away. Read the room, babe. It's giving 2014 girl boss.

which I lived through, which I am a survivor of. We all girlbossed in the mid-aughts. That's what we thought was going to get us there. Did you girlboss too close to the sun? I mean, I did a couple of times, you know, and I have this card to show for it. And I think we all girlbossed too close to the sun in 2016, and then I don't have to remind everyone what happened next and what is continuing to happen. So it's this whole thing of,

This video is... Okay, so imagine you were like AI chatbot.

Do Katy Perry plus Girlboss. And this is what it would spit out. And in fact, the reality is that six human beings wrote this song. And it is always like, listen, Katy Perry has always been Katy Perry. She's always been cheesy. And like her lyrics are not like there's no you don't search for the depth in her lyrics. Right. This is not like her discography is like an inch deep and a mile wide. Right. But like there's something so offensive about this song.

And like, it's just like trope, trope, feminist trope, gay baiting, showing my boobs, gay baiting. Like it's just, it's, it's so bizarre. I, I can't, she's making these like appeals that feel so commercial, right? It's like, she's trying to like, and the reason I say the gay baiting piece is because like,

like she has this like weird imagery. I mean, it's just, the video is such a mess. I mean, you have to watch it. You simply have to watch it. It simply sort of like cannot be explained in words, but it does this whole thing where like, first she's Rosie the Riveter, but she's like in an American flag bikini. And it's just like, there's like all these jiggly boobs and then there's like vibrators. And then there's like, and then she gets crushed by an anvil. And then she comes back as like,

a bionic Katy Perry and she's like almost naked and I'm like listen I understand you have a baby you had a baby and like now you want to show everybody how like you know your body looks like this and I consider it you know it's like I'm like I feel attacked um

um but like she's going through this and like post-apocalyptic world and there's like you know guys and like leather like making out with each other because she's like yay like it's just this like which like that's that's great but it feels very like agreed like we all love that right but it's very like um she i guess like was like retweeting all this thing of like she's sort of like trying to like

It felt very much like, oh, I'm a gay icon. Look at me. And I'm like, I don't think that you get to decide that about yourself. That's my understanding of the procedure for becoming a gay icon. I don't think that you just like...

impose that upon her. Well, yeah, she does have to be very careful because the last person who did that got dragged through the fucking mud, Jojo Siwa. Jojo Siwa. Who is gay herself. She's like, she calls up the, Katy Perry calls up the labels like, I want to invent a new genre, gay pop. I walked right in there and I told them, I want to make history. Okay, but Jojo Siwa, okay, like, in defense of Jojo Siwa, like,

She is like going through something, right? Like, and she's a young person and like a recovering child star. Like, Katy Perry has no excuse. Katy Perry is my age. She is a mom. And that's the other thing is she's like, I had a baby and then I discovered the feminine divine and I was like, stop it.

you know, because I have two kids like I have, you know, and I'm just like the whole thing is so it's just the most like I've never seen one seen someone read the room as badly as like she did with this video. And you can just tell she like really thought she did something. She's just like, oh, I have, you know, this is going to be the song of summer. And this is and I'm just like, you know, like we have Chapel Roan now we have like all these other amazing like

As you may know, we have a little bit of a break.

We'll be right back.

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