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We are re-airing some of our favorite series, starting with: A Diva You Should Know! Find our full catalogue at patreon.com/forthegirlspodcast Phoebe Snow is a Diva You Should Know! So we are going to paint an intimate portrait of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time. We lost this genre-defying performer too soon to a the music industry did know what to do with her, and refused to support women properly. So come back to the early 70s as we rediscover the soaring vocals, poetic imagery and powerful emotion coursing through every note of Phoebe Snow's music. Dive deep with us to celebrate the albums, the jingles, the performances, the legend ..It looks like Snow... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's Easter Weekend, Battle Angels, so we are rising from the podcast dead to take you to the IMMACULATE church of Sydney Sweeney. That's right it is time to dive into true horror with this Nun-sploitation flick. We have a new favorite final girl, and we want you to throw on a linen nightgown and run through an Italian field soaked in blood with us. Come for the Hers in Habits and stay for devil-Jesus. We get extremely sacrilegious as we worship our diva, so happy Good Friday! We cover horror, housewives, AMC diet coke recipes, have a bit of the book club and preview upcoming horror flicks! Spoilers abound! Ratings and Prayers and Reviews, oh my! Meet us in the convent for an episode you truly cån't face. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Merry Christmas everyone! Let's celebrate with Cher, babe! We review Cher's new Christmas album, "CHIRSTMAS." It is full of bops and bangers and classics, and we go through it all, babe. So hop into your drop top sleigh ride, and get ready to play some f*cking Christmas music. We cover so many divas, Bette and Cher's relationship, our Christmas traditions, and mostly just kiki about one of our favorite ladies to ever do it, the Dark Lady, Loretta, Babe: CHER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We're back with a special Christmas Episode for everyone! While we are now completely moved to Patreon, we wanted to pop back in to remind you all of what you are missing in Heaven...that is, CABOT COVE! So it is time for you to get PRAYED UP for the holidays. Fly down east with us as we celebrate the holiday season with Jessica Fletcher, Dr. Seth, Sherriff Mort, and special guest stars Amy Brenneman and Sela Ward! This episode teaches us about business, Judges named Amy, slut-shaming, illegitimate children, and all about how to keep the Christmas spirit. So come read the good book and get right with God, as we celebrate the ultimate Christmas Diva: Angela Lansbury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Battle Angels! We are moving the podcast in its entirety to our Patreon! So, we are reuniting on here, to tell you about it, the future of the pod, Barbie, the Meg, Haunted Guest Houses and of course a little Shelley Winters. We are back- kind of. Have a quick listen as we chart our new path. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
That's right, the witches are back! Someone lit a black flame candle and brought the two of us out of hell and back to the hell of podcasting! We watched the movie last night with the rest of the global population, and then saved all of our takes for the hot mic. This is an unedited, unvarnished one night only return for us, and one way or another we are gonna find ya, and bring you all the goosies, all the nostalgia, and all the Divas. So strap your Roombas on your feet and get ready to fly to Salem, sisters!!!!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We’re back! For the 30th Anniversary of FOR THE BOYS we are giving it the full FOR THE GIRLS treatment. That’s right, girls, it’s a holiday special episode where we celebrate Bette Midler’s 1991 War Epic, update you on the past present and future of this podcast, and give you all the Diva News! So light a goddess candle and get ready to Billy-A-Dick down to the U.S.O as we go through every 20th Century American war, all of Bette’s period fashions, the Make-up, the vocals, and the Antifa-Divas of the early 90s. The only Woman’s War Movie must be celebrated! This is the apotheosis of Bette’s career, and it was criminally under-celebrated at the time so let’s get to lauding this true Diva Classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We're late, we know, but let us make it up to you by taking you into the greater Alecia Moore-iverse! That's right, it is time to touch the hem of the Punk-inspired-singer-song-writer-Pop-Rock-Icon: P!nk! It's time to PARTY, you perfect under-dogs! So get ready as we cover the documentary of her tour: What I Know So Far! We are coming with doc and album reviews, Diva News and Podcast announcements that will make us all cry! We are in full summer celebration mode of our emotional, honest, true mother-Diva, P!nk. So grab your invisible Nanny, rename yourself Willow and meet us at the Pride Parade, because we are just getting this party started! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week we talk about the most fascinating woman in the world, Eartha Kitt, with the most brilliant professor in the world, Alexandra Billings! So meet us in Katie's corner for some deranged and delightful Diva dish. We talk icons, transformation, wigs, the 80s, plagues and bazoomabs! Come and learn why queer people are the Phoenixes of the human experience, how to become sadistic women, and all about navigating chaos. We talk Eartha, Bette, Madonna, Cher, Barbra, Mae West and Judy - it is truly a symposium this week, and Alexandra is the ultimate teacher. So grab your Cha-Cha Heels, your champagne taste and meet us under the bridges of Paris! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
That's right For the Girls, we are coming at you with a God Tier Album Review of Whitney Houston's 1990 I'm Your Baby Tonight! This episode already aired on our Patreon, so come and see what all the exclusive fuss is about! So hop onto your Nippy-cycle and get ready for Origins, trampoline choreography, 90s shame, self titled albums, and the beginning of the Bobby-era! Don’t try to sing along because it’s Whitney. Everyone just RELAX because Whit is going to explain Monogomy, exorcise a demon named Susan and lend her perfect vocals to the dance-pop framework. You lift us up, you’re all the angels that we need, and so we are giving you this episode reviewing one of our all time favorite albums!
Come down to the Easy Listening sections, friends, as we defend the great Diva of Classic Hollywood: Doris Day! We have a guest superfan, Chris Logan, all the way from London to celebrate Calamity Jane, America's Sweetheart, the great voice of her generation, Doris! So join us in reconsidering this unsung Diva who hasn't been properly been given her due. We cover her virginal reputation, Rock Hudson's thighs, the 650 songs she recorded, the dogs, the dogs and the dogs, and the "Almost independent Woman" that she was made to play. Whatever will be will be, but our love of Doris is never going to leave us, so come listen to a little Pillow Talk.
It's Diva You Should Know Week and we are celebrating the truly virtuosic genre-shifting multitudes of Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June Pointer! Come with us through the Quartet of the 70s, the Trio of the 80s and the musicology of one of the most important music groups in history. We are worshipping these underusing superheroes this week as we review our favorite tracks, discuss their eclectic bop-filled library and cleanse our algorithms with this perfect music. Come for the hits, stay for the music theory. We are out here demanding miniseries, art installations and statues erected to these iconic women of music. It should be Automatic!
All Bow Down to the Queen of Cinema, Cate Blanchett! This week we grovel at her feet with superfan, Jakob Plummer. We are writing long letters on our typewriters about Jasmine, Carol Aird, Charlotte Grey and Veronica Guerin! We analyze her royal work, her villain work, her elf work and her everywoman work as we swim through the fearless and versatile waters of the reining Ice Queen of the Movies. So get ready to bop through the many Gifts and the greatest hits of this singular, trail-blazing, humanitarian Australian who has written her own script and built one of the most dynamic careers in the history of Hollywood.
Our 100th Episode extravaganza continues with the screenwriter of 9 to 5, Patricia Resnick! And she knows from Diva. So come gab with us about her work on The Cher Show, Robert Altman films, and Better Things. Pat came with Diva stories and tells tales of Lucille Ball, Shelley Winters, Stephanie J Block, Glenn Close, Ruth Gordon, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Bette Bette Bette Bette and Bette. Come hear tales of dancing with Nancy Reagan, creating this iconic film and building a truly incredible career in Hollywood as a writer for over 40 years. Come grab a little inspiration from one of the greats!
OUR 100th EPISODE IS HERE! And we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than inviting back returning champion, LaToya Morgan, to discuss one of all of our favorite films: 9 to 5! We are here to worship the divas Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Patricia Resnick, Ann Roth, Elizabeth Wilson, Peggy Pope, Marian Mercer, Esther Sullivan and Roxanne Bonilla-Giannini in this all too prescient classic from 1980. So throw on your work kimono, catch that elevator, and get ready to murder the patriarchy and throw its corpse into the trunk of a car! We are going to do M&Ms, drink some Skinny&Sweet, and then Sexualize, Hunt and Murder our Bosses. We are keeping a spot for you at our lunch table to celebrate these iconic women and our own centenary!
Open the Book of Cabot Cove and unleash an episode of Biblical proportions! That's right we are going back to paradise to learn and preach the theology of JB Fletcher. This is our fourth installment of this series and this time we study Season 4, Episode 7: "If It's Thursdays, It Must Be Beverly." So get ready to go to the beauty shop, reunite with Evie Simpson, hear about naughty kitties, Lotharios, Salmon mousse and of course, God herself. We are taking you back to the church of Angela Lansbury so hop on your bike, confess your sins and PRAY.
Welcome to our second Bette Midler Album Review! That's right, we are going back to the well this week to dig for some gold. So come and celebrate the 7th studio album from our goddess: Bette Midler! This is our next-step-Bible filled with nostalgia, herstory, Marc Shaiman, Dionne Warwick, Diane Warren, Janice Ian, Jennifer Lewis, and Adult Contemporary Charts. So come and find your joy as we dive into the Grammy for Female Pop Vocal Performance, the 90s, Los Angeles fantasies and Leggings! We hope you all are staying sane while keeping From A Distance, and just put this on to do a little Moonlight Dancing, Miss Otis! Let's go One More Round!
It's Oscar week and we have invited critic, podcaster and Oscar savant, Chris Feil from This Had Oscar Buzz to join us at the altar of the Nomads! That's right, it is time to stan for our divas: Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Linda May and Swankie!!! Tear up those lesson books, kids, because we are talking about art this week. We three matinee ladies are sitting by the fire discussing Community and Solitude, Fran's career, Chloe's meteoric rise and Linda May's Oscar campaign. So grab your 7 gallon bucket, name your travel van and meet us out on the range. We are diving deep into the genius well of Chloe Zhao's work, stories of returning to an actual movie theater and of course everything Academy Awards. So pick up your ballot and get ready to mark every box for the transcendent movie of the year: NOMADLAND. Swankie Hive RISE!!!
Book Club!!! We read Nina Simone's autobiography: I Put A Spell On You, and are coming at you with one queer ass book report! How many times can we say "Singular?" Well, take a listen and find out as we etch our new knowledge onto the Mount Rushmore of Divas. We travel from North Carolina to Barbados, from New York to Paris and Liberia to learn about the life and legacy of this complex, beautiful, century shifting virtuoso. We let her own words and story re-contextualize how we listen to her music. So come hear about her days with Lorraine Hansberry, her nights with Odetta, her improvs with Al Shackman and her protests with James Baldwin as we pay tribute to the genius, Nina, who put a spell on us all.
Claws Out, Claws Up, it's time to worship the Mother Monster herself: Lady Gaga! We have her superfan and internet lip-syncing sensation, Ben Yahr, with us this week to break down everything about the Fame Monster. So grab your freak flag and get ready to plant it on planet Chromatica. We are building the ultimate outlet for your coven of Monsters. We are analyzing, rhapsodizing, and immortalizing this free woman, songwriter, performance artist, actress, provocateur, activist and beacon for the weird and wondrous. rSo prepare yourselves to hatch the enigma that is Lady Gaga!
Hop onto the Nostalgia Trolley, Friends of Judy, as we go back to 1944 Hollywood and 1903 St. Louis to celebrate one of the great movie musicals of all time: Meet Me in St. Louis! Just in time for Easter we are ready to worship any resurrection of the work of Divas: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremmer and Marjorie Main! We are coming with the earm worms, so grab your gin, meet us in the bathtub and get ready for origins, confessions, Chintz, thirst and us being the most Horrible! We celebrate the counterpoint and beautiful tension of this masterpiece as well as its horny sisters on trolley Cars! We swoon, we sigh, and we say ICONIC, So put us on your dance card and get ready for Art on art on art on art.
The day has finally come to honor, celebrate and worship the Goddess of Rock: Tina Turner! And just in time to prime you for this weekend's upcoming TINA Documentary, we welcome her superfan, Ben, who runs the Tina Turner Blog and wins every contest involving Tina, so don't even try to. Get ready to do the Pony, shake your manes, and steam up those windows. Put on your shortest dress, and start to strutting, because we are going to tell you about the bad things gay kids do, give you Whatever You Want, and make your Wildest Dreams come true on this episode. Start chanting because we are headed to Nutbush to discuss the impact, the history, the legacy of the Performer, the Voice, the Legend: TINA!
We're Back with a Diva Filled SEASON 3 PREMIERE! This week we present to you the "Mount Rose Sara Lee Cosmetics For the Girls Podcast Drop Dead Gorgeous DIVA Pageant!" Don't cry out loud, we are searching for Kiki's EGOT as we reclaim this Diva stuffed classic in the named of Y2K Camp. So throw some vaseline on your teeth, grab a cardboard box of VHS tapes and meet us on the swan float, babies. We are going to worship Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Allison Janney, Ellen Barkin, Amy Adams, Brittany Murphy, Kristen Rudrüd, Mindy Sterling, Alexandra Holden, Mo Gaffney, Nora Dunn and Queen Xenu herself: KIRSTIE ALLEY! We rewrite the Best-Of-1999 lists, marvel at some of these jokes, and really just revel in the dirty, dark and absurd America of Drop Dead Gorgeous!
Enter the Diva Supreme, America's Greatest Superstar, the one the only MISS PIGGY! Moi better be ready, because we are going to try to cover the influence, the impact, the import of the greatest actress, singer, personal trainer, international icon, Miss Piggy. There aren't even enough adjectives to start this episode, so just download it. We cover Piggy's film career, romance and political impact. We cover Billionares, And MacDowell, Fair Queens, and Fergie! So exile that self-doubt, grab your gay pride and get ready to get drop dead gorgeous! (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.)
"Working Girl" Rewatch! Take the Staten Island Ferry back to 1988 with us to celebrate Melanie, Sigourney and Joan. This is an Origins episode where Jason and Nick continue mining their nostalgia til death. Worship the hair, the eyeshadow, the shoulder-pads, and the Reaganomics of this classic comedy. These ladies teach us mergers & acquisitions, flawless fashions, and the value of female friendships. Let the River Run! (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.)
Come to the schoolhouse children, because there is a Diva you should know named Nancy Wilson! This week we worship Sweet Nancy, the girl with the honey-coated voice. We go back to the Cocoanut Grove to fly through 70 albums over her prolific and criminally under appreciated career. So come fire walk with us back to the 60s with us as we take a hard bop through Ohio, New York City, Los Angeles, and get drunk in San Francisco listening to Pop, R&B, Broadway and JAZZ. You don't know How Glad We Are to be listening to Nancy Wilson, so hop on this train and let her transport you to another world. (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.)
There is one woman who is the GodMother, The Queen, The Patron Saint of Rock 'n Roll: SISTER ROSETTA THARPE! We have been dying to cover this extraordinary Diva for a while and we saved her to round out your Gay Pride Season! So come and learn about this genre defying, electric guitar playing, ball gown wearing Stadium Bride! I bet the history books didn't tell you that Rock was invented by a queer black woman did they? Well that's because all the history books are WRONG. So come for the herstory and stay for the soaring gospel numbers, the rollicking guitar licks and high flying vocal of SRT. That's right, kitty cats, this week we are burning down the entire Hall of Fame and rebuilding it in Rosetta's name! (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.)
All Hail the Coffeehouse Queen, Dar Williams! Jason & Nick dive deep into Dar's first two albums, The Honesty Room & Mortal City,and, their poetic adolescences, teenage car accidents and seasonal depression! We're so glad you finally made it here to our 13th Episode! We hope we're aging well and that you will come and sit in the Honesty Room with us as we laugh and cry in the church of this goddess folk-singer-songwriter-diva. (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.)
The new documentary of Aretha Franklin's live recording of her gospel album, Amazing Grace, is nothing short of a miracle. Just in time for Easter, Jason and Nick head to Church to learn at the feet of the Queen of Soul. This is the episode where we beg you to stop listening to this podcast and go to the movies, listen to Aretha, convert to Christianity and praise everyone involved in making this joyful noise! (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.)
Madeline Kahn was the Queen of Comedy and this week we talk to her biggest fan, Michael Cyril Creighton! Feel the flames...just around your face as we float through the glorious career of Hollywood's saddest and sweetest clown. Madeline has inspired Michael's career and life in the fullest way, and there are few fans we have met more devoted. Join us in hailing Mrs. White, Trixie, Eunice Burns and all of the delectable creations of this singular actress. (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.)
