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So much pop culture. So many movies, TV shows, music, and memes. In Vulture’s flagship podcast Into It, host Sam Sanders will help you obsess … better. Every week, we’ll break down the pop culture we can’t stop thinking about, with friends from Vulture and the occasional celebrity. From the tiny, dumb scene on loop in our brains to the big, deep questions we have about what it all means … we’ll get into all of it — amazing, terrible, or just insanely memorable. New episodes drop every Tuesday and Friday.
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Britney Was Always Trying to Tell Us Who She Was

 The Woman in Me is out today, but her music already serves as a record of her story.

More From Into It

  1. What TV and Movies Can Tell Us About Abortion — and What They Can’t“A Parks and Rec–style abortion-clinic comedy. That’s what I want to watch.â€
  2. Taylor Swift Is the Greatest Self-Portraitist of Our TimeAs we near the release of her new album, Midnights, we try to figure out whether we’ll truly know her — and if that even matters.
  3. Time’s Up Began in an Oprah Speech and Wound Up in a Disreputable Heap. How?“You know how when a friend does something embarrassing, people will just not talk about that friend? Time’s Up is that friend.â€
  4. Serial Killers Are Now Just IP TooRyan Murphy tried not to center Jeffrey Dahmer in Dahmer, but that’s impossible considering he’s the draw.
  5. Guy Branum Loves That Bros Made Room for a Happy-Sack GayBut he’s more mixed on the discourse: “You cannot change the problems of millennia of marginalization without things being a bit weird around it.â€
  6. See Vulture Festival’s First Lineup Right MeowAll Creatures Great and Small joins We’re Here, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Henry Winkler, and Super Troopers for an old-fashioned L.A. pool party.
  7. The Immense Powers of Kim Kardashian Are in Transition — Not DeclineOne doesn’t become a “cultural fractal icon†by being easily put away.
  8. Issa Rae is Not Not Moving Like a Hollywood Beyoncé“I can show people that there’s an audience for the work that I want to create, and now it just comes down to the resources to make it.â€
  9. The Fantasy Genre Is Still Too Stuck in Its White-centric WaysThe response to black characters in The Rings of Power and Little Mermaid shows exactly why our make-believe stories need a shake-up.
  10. Don’t Worry About Harry Styles and the Spit, Darling (Let Us Do It for You)“Think of a 100-year-old Greek woman pretend-spitting at you; that’s the biggest disrespect, and I think that’s what he was doing there.â€
  11. If There’s Still Such a Thing as the ‘Song of Summer,’ This Year’s Is …Beyoncé? Lizzo? Harry Styles? Bad Bunny? (Kate Bush?) Or all and none of the above?
  12. Sydney Sweeney Is Getting Peak-TV Exposure, but the Hustle ContinuesThe Euphoria star is part of a generation of actors navigating a Hollywood economy increasingly stacked against them.
  13. Yellowstone’s Brand of White Grievance Is Free-Range and OrganicA talk with Tressie McMillan Cottom about the blockbuster show’s soft politics, and whether Taylor Sheridan is “the white person’s Tyler Perry.â€
  14. Damon Lindelof Knows When to Wrap Up the Party“People don’t want things to end,†says the Lost and Watchmen showrunner. “I do.â€
  15. What Kelis’s ‘Milkshake’ Was Bringing to Beyoncé’s ‘Energy’A musicological breakdown of Renaissance’s most controversial sample.
  16. Sam Sanders Picks His Favorite PodcastsThe Into It host on Las Culturistas, The Read, and more.
  17. A24 Knows How to Get People to Watch Its FilmsThe studio’s taste has made it successful, but its marketing is why it’s thriving.
  18. Beyoncé Really Did Change the Game With That Digital DropThe tectonic shifts initiated by her 2013 self-titled album are still reverberating, music journalist Danyel Smith explains.
  19. It’s Time to Clear Your Podcast QueueVulture’s launching Into It — an exciting new culture show hosted by Sam Sanders.