Episode 47: Church of the Poison Mind with Monia Ali

I reached out to Monia after reading her excellent substack piece on her experience in the One Direction fandom (read it here!) and was thrilled when she agreed to come on the podcast to discuss fandom and some of the problems within contemporary fandoms.

Some of the things we reference:

• The post on how subcultures get ruined.

• The Black Keys on the Joe Rogan Experience (Episode #1354)

• Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics by Jackie Huba

• “Dirty Poplitics & the solo career of JC Chasez” (a fan documentary)

• The trailer for the film 1D: This is Us, directed by Morgan Spurlock

• An example of a “Larry” video

• “Phan” evidence video

• My own Episode 36: A (Brief) History of Boy Bands

The songs played are:

1. “Fearless” by Louis Tomlinson

2. “Use Me” by Bill Withers

3. “Brave Captain” by fIREHOSE

4. “The Man Who Would Speak True” by Blitzen Trapper

5. “Now That We Found Love” by the O’Jays

6. “Warning” by the Talking Heads

7. “I’ll Be Good For You” by ‘NSYNC (Also check out this great live version!)

8. “Back for Good” by Gary Barlow feat. JC Chasez

9. “Doubleplusgood” by Eurythmics

10. “I Don’t Believe You” by the Magnetic Fields

11. “Applause” by Lady Gaga

12. “Money Machine” by Gucci Mane feat. Rick Ross

13. “Gold on the Ceiling” by the Black Keys

14. “Church of the Poison Mind” by the Culture Club