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Weirdly, it feels as if were living through some infinite present at the expense of a living past.
In the most recent season, Hopper assembled an eight-story collection defined by a vivid sense of moral balance.
Whats being pursued isnt an allocation of judgment but a deeply felt acknowledgment of complication.
How would you describe the thread connecting the stories this season?
Oh, thats hard.
I think the season gets at some of the bigger questions weve been discussing in culture recently about legacy.
Its not as simple as we think.
Maybe thats the thumbnail right there.
Did it ever exist?
So let me take a roundabout way into this question.
As you might know, theres been a lot of consolidation in journalism over the past eight years.
Or 20, I guess, if you count magazines.
And there are still so many people who are really eager to tell them.
Some of them are print journalists, some maybe work in other mediums.
Its just really hard to find more of that stuff today.
In music journalism right now, people just arent getting assigned those stories.
WithLost Notes, we felt like we had the format and the ambition to take those stories on.
Ive gotten a lot more interested in history, and what nostalgia has glossed over.
But also What did we miss?
Who is not in this history?
Who is on the fringes of this moment?
Or, you know,R.
At the time, it sometimes felt like I was being a killjoy.
Anyway, even with that in place, Im interested in knowing: What did I miss?
Who has been written out of history?
Does todays music-journalism landscape address these questions enough?
I think the millennial sensibility about music and music history these days is to be cynical.
At the risk of sounding academic, we need to interrogate the canon.
How did you come to be the executive producer for the season?
They reached out and were like, Would you be interested in contributing?
I have an editorial function that doesnt shut off.
Then really quickly it went from Do you have an idea?
Where itsjustwomens voices and not two guys talking about indie rock or to guests promoting their new record?
Do you have any other projects in the works?
I have two other pods in development.
Thats going to be really fun.
The other one is about riot grrrl.
My entire world now is basically music history in all formats.
