2000 D'Angelo: Vintage Almost-Pop Stardom (with Craig Jenkins)
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Show Notes
In 2000, D'Angelo was leveling up from R&B phenomenon to full-fledged crossover superstar, with a chart-topping album and a MTV-dominating video — but nearing pop stardom might quickly proved not the best thing for his art or for his spirit. In this third episode of our Vintage Almost-Pop Stardom mini-series — a spin on our usual Vintage Pop Stardom, with four episodes this month looking at close-but-not-quite pop stars during their biggest years — Vulture's Craig Jenkins helps us look back at the late great D'Angelo during the era of 'Voodoo' and "Untitled (How Does It Feel)," and how he helped briefly define the mainstream before pushing away from it to a degree no one could have quite anticipated.
2000 D'Angelo:
In 2011, the worlds of indie and pop were starting to overlap in new and interesting ways — and one of the biggest beneficiaries of the merging universes was Justin Vernon, otherwise known as alt-folk cult phenomenon Bon Iver. In this third episode of our Vintage Almost-Pop Stardom mini-series — a spin on our usual Vintage Pop Stardom, with four episodes this month looking at close-but-not-quite pop stars during their biggest years — Billboard's Kristin Robinson (of the excellent new Billboard on the Record podcast) looks back at Eau Claire's finest during the year when he brushed against pop stardom, both as one of Kanye West's go-to collaborators, and as one of the most-acclaimed, best-selling and most culturally unavoidable artists in all of indie.
2000 D'Angelo Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwFs58D1XAMaFV5ppR8JEQ8z5zPiw5X7I&si=N-RxPcxN65_r9oPD
Read Craig's D'Angelo rememberance on Vulture:
https://www.vulture.com/article/dangelo-obit.html
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