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Iconic or Ironic
by Cara Niehoff & Bailey Foster
Hi, we’re Bailey and Cara. Welcome to Iconic or Ironic. We’re 2 former superiority-complexed Zillennials who love to hear ourselves talk despite our respective monotone and speech impediment (or British accent). Tune in to hear our takes on the latest in pop culture and media, from astrology to our favorite blasts from the past (and by that we mean the early-aughts--don’t hate us). We have absolutely no authority on any of these topics besides being fans and stans, but we can spotlight what’s really iconic… or ironic.
Episodes
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SS26
Audrey and Phoebe and Gracie and Charli. Need we say more?
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you seem pretty ˙◠˙ for a girl so ᥫ᭡
Listen to us spend an inordinate amount of time discussing OR3 plus some sprinkles of The Royal Wedding, Cara's reality show-inspired summer reads, Bailey's (continued) rant on physical media supremacy, and our anticipation of Daughter from Hell.
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Welcome to New York🗽🏙️🍎🚕🍕🎭
Enjoy a special episode recapping our trip to NYC Mostly iconic but some ironic (and idiotic) experiences in that ginormous apple🍎🍎🍎 We ❤︎ NY༝༚༝༚
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The🥺Great🥺Divide🥺Recap🥺
Hopefully you like Bailey’s way too in depth track-by-track album analyses because we’re back with another for Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide—an album that can best be summed up with this emoji: 🥺. But that’s not all!! There’s also discussion of our perhaps problematic renaissance of Winnie the...
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Cry All The Time🥲 Disco, Occasionally🪩
Title really says it all. As medium-level Harry Styles’ fans (not quite Harries), we obviously had to do a track-by-track analysis of HS4. Bailey attempts (but fails) at a concise review of The Oscars. And Cara provides some slightly belated recs for Trans Rights Readathon! Now stop listening to...
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Is this a sports podcast now?🤨😦🤔
A little late on the Olympic drama (blame Bailey, as usual🙄) but oh, what a time for American patriotism🇺🇸🦅 No irony here at all!🙂↔️😉 (We do of course support the Team USA women carrying the medal count though—not surprising💪♀️⚡) The Olympics obviously call for a sports romance segment…
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The People Yearn for Blockbuster😫💔📼🍿🎬
New year, same pod (•̀⤙•́ ) Cara and Bailey are back to discuss only the least important things in in our society •𐃷• such as our collective obsession with the year 2016 (𖦹~𖦹)??, the newest GOT spinoff, Harry Styles’ new album😙🪩,Oscar nom predictions (sorry, Bailey took foreverrrr to edit...
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2025: Iconic or Ironic?🧐🤨🧐
Perhaps a bit idiotic🫠🥸😵💫but let’s not get into all that…Instead, Cara and Bailey recap 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ and dive into the Christmas season☃️❆🔔☃︎ Lots of wrapping in this episode! From discussing the iconic, underrated “Christmas Wrapping”(and other fav Christmas carols🎷🔔🎺🌟) to rehashing...
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November Is Still Fall Y'all🍁☕️🎞️🍂
Cara and Bailey prolong spooky season🐈⬛🕸️🦇(sorry Nov 1st Christmas observers!🙅🏻♀️🚫☃︎🎅) with their takes on the most iconic and ironic celebrity halloween costumes🧛♀️🧙♂️🧟♂️, Bailey’s review after finally seeing the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show👄👠🎶🏰, and a discussion of...
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TS12❤️🔥
Tune in to hear Cara and Bailey's deep dive into TS12: The Life of a Showgirl💃🪩💎🎩👠 They share their album release listening experience, initial and current thoughts on the album as a whole, and Bailey's thoughts on Party of a Showgirl🪩💲🎬 Lastly, they grace this lucky audience with a...
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🩵🎭The Life of a Podcaster🎭🧡
Taylor provided just a bit of news to inspire this episode’s content, and Bailey and Cara are obviously here to discuss the 🧡news🩵(spoiler alert: it is 💎iconic💎).Of equal importance, they’re here to rehash season 3 of tsitp…2 brothers🧍♂️🧍♂️1 Belly🧍♀️—what could go wrong ? In other...
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Another Pop🥤Girlie👯♀️Summer🌞
It may not be 🍏Brat Summer™ but rest assured, it’s another pop girlie summer💅Harry Styles is in his “wellness” era👀, Aquaman🌊is here (welcome back Ozzy Osbourne🙏), and Labubu world supremacy may be near👹Bailey and Cara recap the frightening millennial equivalents of Labubus (think: Furby)....
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From Camp Rock to Kink Pop🎤🫦
Taylor owns her masters✅ Sabrina owns the male gaze✅ Addison Rae owns a mic❓ Bailey and Cara ask the only question that matters: is it iconic or ironic? This episode’s Celebrity Spotlight goes to the Dakota Johnson✨Nepo baby supreme, Razzie winner, shit-shipper, and unexpected literary girlie📖.…
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27 years old✅ No money✅ No prospects✅ Burden to parents✅ Frightened✅
Brought together to witness the angelic🪽music of Lucy Dacus and Katie Gavin, Bailey and Cara reunite in Chicago for a special episode⚡️🕺They reflect on the 20th anniversary* of the Pride and Prejudice film adaption before revisiting it in theaters🎥 (the Keira Knightley version, of course…
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I May Be Cringe🥴 But I Am Free🤯
Welcome back to another episode where you favorite hosts share the hot🥵 takes no one asked for🤭 We yap about the Oscars, Harry running a whole marathon rather than drop new music, and the microcelebrities we’re oh so proud of (and no, we won’t call them influencers). We stan animated movies…
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Welcome to 2025…🫨🫦🫢
Happy 2025!🥳🕺Or is it…Well, we’ll try our best to provide some light in this dystopian world🌎We obviously discuss the “ban” of TikTok (note: this was recorded on 1/18👀) as well as our thoughts on social media overall (spoiler alert: Bailey did delete all her social media👀but you can still...
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Holding Space for Defying Gravity💚🩷
Obviously we had to dedicate basically an entire episode to Wicked’s film adaptation💚🩷 (plus Cara’s Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 coverage📚and our Spotify Wrapped recaps🎧). Tune in for our takes—besides being completely obsessed with it including, of course, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s...
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Talk Turkey to Me😦🦃🤯
Get ready for a 🦃buffet🦃 of topics on this week’s Iconic or Ironic! For this Thanksgiving episode, we’re serving up Grammy predictions, regency romance, a Macaulay Culkin deep dive, and more. Grab your plate, it’s time to dig in🫡🍽️🤤
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Spooky Season Remix🌚🌝
We're back and bringing seasonal vibes as always🍂🕷 🎃What's October for if not spooky reads, Stephen King appreciation, hyperpop remixes, and 2000s computer game nostalgia? All that and more on this episode of Iconic or Ironic🌚🌝
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Midwest Princesses🌽✨👑
after ghosting y’all for a bit, we’re back with another episode🫡 we’ve been deep in olympic replays and new girl binges, but now we’re ready to spill on demure tiktok, influencer memoirs, and why artists keep dropping a million album versions (taylor, we’re looking at you👀). we’re shining our...
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Brat Summer💚🪩
After our latest month-long hiatus, we're back and ready to discuss all of the amazing music our pop girlies have blessed us with this summer😇 From Brat to The Secret of Us, we've been busy😌 Tune in to also hear us decode Bridgerton characters' zodiac signs, spotlight our pop queens Sabrina and...
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The Tortured Poets Department Part 2
We're back with part two of our song-by-song analysis of TS11! This time diving into The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Wondering How Did It End? Tune in to find out.
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The Tortured Poets Department Part 1
We've had 3+ weeks to process, and now it's time we share our thoughts on the long awaited TTPD with all our fellow Swiftie listeners🤍 Tune in to hear our overall reactions plus a song-by-song analysis...of the first half of the double album. We had so much to say that we'll be releasing a Part…
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Country Skies and Super Bowl Highs
From the buzz around the new Fantastic Four cast to our current reads, we're back with all the hot takes. We dive into the best Super Bowl ads, make Love Island predictions based on zodiac signs, and shine a spotlight on Usher's career. But most importantly, we discuss the maybe nonexistent love...
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2024 Gonna Give Us Some More😩🫶✨
Welcome back after our unintentional 2-month hiatus! Tune in for a recap of 2023 including...some of our own highlights, top celebrity moments, and our Spotfiy Wrapped. We celebrate 20 years of Mean Girls and share the 2024 release each zodiac should look out for, plus some pop culture…
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I Wake Up and It's October✨🍂🕯🎃🌙
Covering all things important to October: our favorite spooky movies, the cramming before the end of Spotify Wrapped, this year's go-to Halloween costumes, and in case none of that scares you—the horror of an imperfect female protagonist😱😱
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Forever Summer in Margaritaville💚🌴🍹
Although we may be ready for fall, we know we can always escape to the islands, courtesy of Jimmy Buffett's discography. In this episode's Celebrity Spotlight, we celebrate the icon's life, music, and legacy. We also discuss the once-forgotten genre of the concert movie, the Disney Channel…
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Girl Summer🫶
Hi Barbie! This episode is devoted to the two cornerstones of girl summer: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Taylor Swift’s Era’s Tour—both of which we’ve had the pleasure of experiencing since our last recording💖 We talk all things Barbie—including Barbenheimer, the Barbie dolls as zodiac signs (and…
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Iconic or Iconic: Pride Episode🌈
Happy Pride Month! In this episode, we talk all things pride related. See the links below for content referenced!🌈 Block Club: Proud City: Block Club's LGBTQ+ News Hub Insider: "259 LGBTQ characters in cartoons that bust the myth that kids can't handle inclusion" Goodreads: "New and Upcoming…
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1 Year of Being Iconic, Ironic, and Sometimes Idiotic💖
It's a very special episode as we're celebrating ONE YEAR of Iconic or Ironic with a live, in-person episode🥳 We're also celebrating the start of Pride month by highlighting some iconic Pride brand campaigns we've seen🌈 In this episode, we give our ill-informed take on Succession, our very...
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Furby vs. Robodog
What would an episode of IoI be without 13+ mentions of TS? And yes, it is quite the time for annoying people as Matty Healy has now entered the chat. We love random years in the late 20th century prior to our existence. Cara guides you to your perfect summer romance read (as told by the stars…
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Lucky Episode 13💜
In honor of lucky episode number 13, we debrief our Eras era as well as discuss some other characters in the Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe (Jack, Lana, etc.). We also cover the music that has been blessing our ears from some of our other fav queens—the icons of boygenius. We dive into the…
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Rihanna Wins Super Bowl LVII💎🏈
We know you were just as impatient for this episode as for Rihanna's first live performance in five years. But wait no more (for Iconic or Ironic—we won't attempt to predict Bad Girl Ri Ri's next return to the stage (well, we will but are undoubtedly wrong)). Also, enjoy our takes on the best…
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2022 Wrapped
We know you all are absolutely dying to hear our hot takes of 2022, but the wait is over! Tune in to hear our favorites of last year and predictions for 2023. We also share our pop culture-related resolutions for the new year—both for ourselves and the pod. Cheers to 2023! New year, same pod.
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'Tis the Damn Season
'Tis the damn season to hear even more about our Spotify Wrapped (in case you didn't get enough from our insta stories), Bailey's tirade against the patriarchy in the 1964 claymation classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and a dedication to the tumblr god himself, Matty Healy. Featuring a show…
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Spooky Szn Recap
Blaming the Eras tour announcement for the lag in publishing this...but in case you're also not quite ready to switch seasonal mentalities and want a little more spooky season content, you're in the right place :) OR, if you listened to our Midnights special ep and are doubting some of our…
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The Sound Presents: Midnights (8am Edition)🕛🕛🕛
We love any excuse to talk nonstop tswift for an hour, and we know you’ve been impatiently waiting to hear the oh so hot takes of the experts (us). Enjoy this special edition pod exclusively devoted to TS10 :) and continue falling in love with Midnights🕛🕛🕛
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Sad Girl Fall
It's the moment we've all been waiting for but now that it's here remember the associated seasonal depression: welcome to fall. We cover all the highs (Gilmore Girls rewatch season, the abundance of fall playlists, autumnal rom-coms) and lows (optional: take a shot every time we say seasonal...
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Swifties
Disclaimer: Blame Bailey if this content seems 1.5 weeks old (because it is). You're of course a fellow Swiftie if you listen to this, so it comes as no surprise that we're doing a deep dive into Midnights (if this is the content we can get from a mere announcement just wait till the actual album...
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Tumblr Girls at Heart♡
We’re back! After a brief hiatus due to Bailey’s European travels (yes, she was one of those annoying Insta follows of the summer—don’t judge), we return to discuss the latest including the Kim K/Pete breakup (but more importantly the mastermind that is Kris Jenner), Jennette McCurdy’s iconic new...
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She's a 10. But She Has a Podcast
The listeners spoke, and we’re back 2 weeks early :) because we know you need the content :)) In episode 4, we talk the friends to lovers trope of the youth (aka the love lives we didn’t have in high school—can you tell??). We talk hats. Both bucket and of the crazy funky junky variety. We talk…
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Side Character Energy
We’re baaaack and better than ever :) If you’ve stuck around with us this long, ty (all 5 of you). This week we have even more Croc content, a deep dive into the still-vibrant American Girl doll world (especially among Zoomers), and lots of probably not-so-hot Twitter takes. We discuss some...
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Bicoastal Grandmother Summer
Welcome back to Iconic or Ironic! It’s Memorial Day weekend, and you know what that means…the official start of bicoastal grandmother summer👵🏻🔥 Forget hot girl summer, we’re ready for those blue and white linens that blur the lines between 24 and 74. The aesthetic pairs perfectly with Harry’s...
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Take 1
Welcome to Iconic or Ironic! Listen to our first episode before you decide which category our pod falls into (pls)…We’ll hit on all aspects of the Zillennial zeitgeist with a focus on this past week(ish). Featuring…music festivals as zodiac signs, a reflection on DCOMs, a sneak peak into what our...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hi, we’re Bailey and Cara. Welcome to Iconic or Ironic. We’re 2 former superiority-complexed Zillennials who love to hear ourselves talk despite our respective monotone and speech impediment (or British accent). Tune in to hear our takes on the latest in pop culture and media, from astrology to our favorite blasts from the past (and by that we mean the early-aughts--don’t hate us). We have absolutely no authority on any of these topics besides being fans and stans, but we can spotlight what’s really iconic… or ironic.
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