#185: Existential Pop Stardom, Dopamine, Coffee Towels

It’s another wild week and we’re keeping our heads above water making sense of it all with the Bang Fam.

Qantas have made a big push for us to get vaccinated, and subsequently have us bawling.

A brilliant piece on the unbearable nature of being a female pop star nails it, meanwhile we’re questioning our own addictions in a new look at dopamine and digital media.

And there are claims that ‘tea towel’ is not a uniform term. Excuse me, what?

We’re banging on about a couple of great watches too, CODA and The Newsreader.

Show notes:

Qantas Fly Away ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9_AK1Kcyo

Pete Tong reads out his website: https://twitter.com/benjilanyado/status/1430103448175980549

Has Becoming a Female Pop Star in 2021 become unbearable: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/20/billie-eilish-lorde-lizzo-women-music-industry-fame

Constant Craving: Dopamine: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/aug/22/how-digital-media-turned-us-all-into-dopamine-addicts-and-what-we-can-do-to-break-the-cycle

Coffee Towels: https://twitter.com/sexenheimer/status/1430025974276530181

CODA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pmfrE1YL4I&ab_channel=AppleTV

The Newsreader: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/newsreader

Email us: bangon.podcast@abc.net.au

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