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Lorraine Ali is an Iraqi-American journalist who serves as a culture writer and a TV critic. She is a juror for the George Foster Peabody Awards. Lorraine works for the LA Times, where she was previously a senior writer and music editor. Her work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, the New York Times, GQ, and Newsweek. Listen to Lorraine and I talk about her career as a real-life influencer, as her job entails critiquing the work made for us to culturally consume. And get a tidbit into an unexpected and shared experience that Lorraine and I had nearly a decade ago.   Follow Lorraine on Twitter and check out her work at LA Times.  Follow the pod @MuslimsDoingThings on IG and the me @laylool on IG       Photo from LA Times   ---   Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/laylool/message

Lorraine Ali is an Iraqi-American journalist who serves as a culture writer and a TV critic. She is a juror for the George Foster Peabody Awards. Lorraine works for the LA Times, where she was previously a senior writer and music editor. Her work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, the New York Times, GQ, and Newsweek. Listen to Lorraine and I talk about her career as a real-life influencer, as her job entails critiquing the work made for us to culturally consume. And get a tidbit into an unexpected and shared experience that Lorraine and I had nearly a decade ago.   Follow Lorraine on <a href="https://twitter.com/LorraineAli?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and check out her work at <a href="https://www.latimes.com/people/lorraine-ali" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LA Times</a>. Follow the pod <a href="https://www.instagram.com/muslimsdoingthings/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@MuslimsDoingThings</a> on IG and the me <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laylool/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@laylool</a> on IG      Photo from LA Times  --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/laylool/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/laylool/message</a>

Lorraine Ali is a TV critic and a culture writer 

Jeff Jones

Marcy Carsey

First off, we hope each and every one of you are staying safe, washing your hands, and keeping somewhat sane during the Coronavirus outbreak of 2020.  We are holding steady and continuing to record the podcast (remotely … so basically we don’t see each other except on computer screens, but thankfully technology has come in handy).  We recorded this one on March 10th before things really went down and USC became a remote campus (we miss the Media Center, but it is necessary for our team to stay away).  This week we bring you a special episode about The Peabody Awards!  Henry has been a juror since 2013 and invited several of his fellow “Peabuddies” to USC for a discussion about the importance of the awards and how they are different from the Emmy, Grammy or Academy Awards.  Henry’s “Peabuddies” are Jeffrey P. Jones, the Director of the Peabody Awards, Marcy Carsey, longtime television producer of shows like Roseanne and That 70’s Show, and Lorraine Ali, TV, Culture, and Media Critic at the LA Times.  Henry and Colin dive deep into the gravitas of the awards which recognize “stories that matter” through a mix of artistic achievement and social impact.  Listen in as Henry, Colin and the rest of the “Peabuddies” consider how race, industry backgrounds, and diversity of the judges can have an impact on The Peabody Awards.  They talk about how TV can pivot faster towards cultural movements which has created an exciting “firehose” of content.  Looking for podcasts, TV shows, and other things to binge during your period of self-isolation?  Check out the episode notes below for some suggestions!

Inside the Peabody Awards with Jeff Jones, Lorraine Ali and Marcy Carsey

The Album: M.I.A. Kala (2007) In 2005, when M.I.A. dropped onto the pop scene with her debut, Arular, heads weren’t quite ready. It was like she brought the full force of Global South dance culture in with her — gloriously bombastic — and the Sri Lankan/British singer/rapper simply didn’t sound like anyone else on the charts. For her follow-up, the idea on paper seemed smart: why not pair M.I.A. with one of the most innovative American producers of that era: Timbaland. Alas, in a post-9/11 world, Homeland Security deemed M.I.A. a threat to national security and refused to give her the necessary visa to come work in the U.S. Undaunted, M.I.A. and producer Switch jumped around the world, recording parts of what would eventually become Kala in cities across South America, Africa and Asia. The resulting masterpiece, propelled on the strength of the eventual mega-smash “Paper Planes,” all but established M.I.A. as a key voice in a different kind of new world order, one in which the borders of nationalism and colonialism were imploding and emergent movements and calls to action were part of that destabilization. As it turned out, M.I.A. didn’t need to come to the U.S. to help invade it with her sound. Kala was the album pick of this week’s guest, Lorraine Ali who currently writes about television for the Los Angeles Times but also got her start as a music critic. As one of the few Muslim American culture critics out there, Lorraine connected heavily with who and what M.I.A. represented and during the course of our conversation, we got into what it was like to listen to Kala in the wake of the second Gulf War, burgeoning refugee crises and the shifting geo-political map in which the music of the Global South could be heard as a subversive force, bamboo bangas and all. More on Lorraine Ali  Her 2008 cover story on M.I.A. for Spin Her LA Times archive Website | Twitter  More on Kala  Oliver's original 2007 NPR review  Kala Turns 10 (Stereogum)  Looking Back at the Passion and Politics of M.I.A.'s Kala (Dazed)  Show Tracklisting (all songs from Kala unless indicated otherwise):  Paper Planes M.I.A.: Galang XR2 Come Around Bird Flu 20 Dollar The Turn Mango Pickle Down River M.I.A.: Bad Girls Boyz World Town Jimmy Paper Planes The Clash: Straight To Hell Hussel Bamboo Banga Paper Planes Diga Rhythm Band: Razooli Mohammad Rafi and Kishore Kumar: Humko Tumse Ho Gaya Hai Pyar  Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find there If you're not already subscribed to Heat Rocks in Apple Podcasts, do it here!

The Album: M.I.A. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VAHFCK?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=oliverwang-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=B000VAHFCK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kala </a>(2007) In 2005, when M.I.A. dropped onto the pop scene with her debut, Arular, heads weren’t quite ready. It was like she brought the full force of Global South dance culture in with her — gloriously bombastic — and the Sri Lankan/British singer/rapper simply didn’t sound like anyone else on the charts. For her follow-up, the idea on paper seemed smart: why not pair M.I.A. with one of the most innovative American producers of that era: Timbaland. Alas, in a post-9/11 world, Homeland Security deemed M.I.A. a threat to national security and refused to give her the necessary visa to come work in the U.S. Undaunted, M.I.A. and producer Switch jumped around the world, recording parts of what would eventually become Kala in cities across South America, Africa and Asia. The resulting masterpiece, propelled on the strength of the eventual mega-smash “Paper Planes,” all but established M.I.A. as a key voice in a different kind of new world order, one in which the borders of nationalism and colonialism were imploding and emergent movements and calls to action were part of that destabilization. As it turned out, M.I.A. didn’t need to come to the U.S. to help invade it with her sound. Kala was the album pick of this week’s guest, Lorraine Ali who currently writes about television for the Los Angeles Times but also got her start as a music critic. As one of the few Muslim American culture critics out there, Lorraine connected heavily with who and what M.I.A. represented and during the course of our conversation, we got into what it was like to listen to Kala in the wake of the second Gulf War, burgeoning refugee crises and the shifting geo-political map in which the music of the Global South could be heard as a subversive force, bamboo bangas and all. More on Lorraine Ali <ul> <li>Her <a href="https://www.spin.com/featured/spin-cover-story-m-i-a-pow/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2008 cover story</a> on M.I.A. for Spin</li> <li>Her LA Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-bio-lorraine-ali-staff.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">archive</a></li> <li><a href="http://lorraineali.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/LorraineAli" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li> </ul> More on Kala <ul> <li>Oliver's original <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13831187" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2007 NPR review</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.stereogum.com/1955775/kala-turns-10/franchises/the-anniversary/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Kala Turns 10</a> (Stereogum)</li> <li><a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/37006/1/mia-kala-10-year-retrospective" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Looking Back at the Passion and Politics of M.I.A.'s Kala</a> (Dazed)</li> </ul> Show Tracklisting (all songs from Kala unless indicated otherwise): <ul> <li>Paper Planes</li> <li>M.I.A.: Galang</li> <li>XR2</li> <li>Come Around</li> <li>Bird Flu</li> <li>20 Dollar</li> <li>The Turn</li> <li>Mango Pickle Down River</li> <li>M.I.A.: Bad Girls</li> <li>Boyz</li> <li>World Town</li> <li>Jimmy</li> <li>Paper Planes</li> <li>The Clash: Straight To Hell</li> <li>Hussel</li> <li>Bamboo Banga</li> <li>Paper Planes</li> <li>Diga Rhythm Band: Razooli</li> <li>Mohammad Rafi and Kishore Kumar: Humko Tumse Ho Gaya Hai Pyar</li> </ul> Here is the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1L35kScId9ID0XFFCn4CWj?si=YrvalVHpR2SenQai8Bs7Eg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify playlist</a> of as many songs as we can find there If you're not already subscribed to Heat Rocks in Apple Podcasts, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/heat-rocks/id1290971833?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">do it here!</a>

Lorraine Ali on M.I.A's "Kala" (2007)