Quantum Baby

And she wants to be talented.

album name drop a pop star um and i think with like so she's always been capable of producing excellent singles like bouncing is one of my favorite songs ever i fucking love that song two on famously one of the the best like r&b hip-hop pop songs that there is everybody loves that song but usually the full album is kind of lacking something For me, and I think especially Quantum Baby is like, I'm never offended by it, but I don't really want to listen to anything independently.

Whereas this is just like straight through, like fucking tune after tune after tune.

Yes.

I love Tinashe so much.

I became a fan after BB Angel, which was in 2023, and then last year Quantum Baby came out and that was...

Quantum Baby was meh, you know.

I've seen a lot of potential in Tinashe for a long time.

Um, because I, I feel like-

She is deep into a discography, and it is a good one.

This is the final in a trilogy that also includes 2023's Baby Angel, 2024's Quantum Baby.

Quantum Baby produced a big viral moment for Tinashe with the song Nasty.

It was one of the pre-release singles.

She also got a return to the charts with a remix of one of the songs from that record, No Broke Boys, just as for the original, that should've been the one-

Dave here with a review of Tinashe's eighth album, Pop Star.

I'm so excited for Tinashe to be back because back in 2024, her most recent album, Quantum Baby, of course, was preceded by two of the biggest hits of Tinashe's career.

Of course, Nasty had a huge viral tail to it, really taking off as a TikTok song.

And then more belatedly post-album, No Broke Boys really took off as well, aided in part by a DJ remix.

Very laid back energy, which I love that like contrast there.

And it was the last record that we made for the project Quantum Baby.

And so, you know, we had already made Nasty had already kind of like taken off at the time.

And we're like, I feel like there's one song missing.

Tinashe has a new record, Pop Star, dropping in a few days on September 25th.

So we thought it'd be fun to re-up on our episode on Tinashe with The Cut's Kat Zang from all the way back in 2024, just in case you wanted a little refresher on Tinashe's career up to this point while you get ready to listen to her new album.

So hope you enjoy this episode, and we will be back tomorrow with another new one.

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We kind of conceptualized it as a duo.

It's obviously, like, a fascination we share with this particular generation of pop divas, and so I just wanted to bring Russ on here quickly to talk about how we put this show together and just, like, why we're so, so excited about it.

I mean, I just wanted to say that the journey with Katy's album has really, like, brought up some, like, interesting feelings within me personally because I know that, like, we were young at the peak of their careers when they seemed so invincible and, like, they were gonna be superstars forever, and so it's actually kind of been, like, a weirdly, like, existential crisis on my part, watching them navigate this part of their career where they're, like, a- again, like, not quite legacy acts but also not, like, super zeitgeisty, and, you know, you and I were talking about that a lot, and that's kind of how the idea for this show came up, essentially.

Yeah.