Podcasts about water me

Léchelle and Steve are finally back and they start off by sharing the reasons for the hiatus and all the new life changes they have received.  The couple then breakdown a life lesson they learned that helped them in their relationship. Lastly, Léchelle and Steve end off with their 'Water Me" segment. 

Marko Monroe didn’t intend to become a celebrity stylist. Before he started making a living pulling sequin bodysuits and feather coats for Lizzo, he was mostly preoccupied with livening up the nightlife in Arkansas, where he lived. “There wasn't really a queer scene — [there was] one gay bar in Little Rock,” he recalls. “It just needed some youth.” Monroe and his pals decided to start throwing parties — he was charged with building sets, decorating, and making clothes — and soon, the bashes grew big enough to move them into a club. “Once we saw other groups of friends coming together and making their own families, we were like, ‘OK, we've done our job,’” he says. So in 2017, he felt the time was right to move to Los Angeles, which had a drag scene that intrigued him. His proverbial big break came shortly after the move west, when a friend brought him on to create Lizzo’s looks for her “Water Me” music video. The rest, as they say, is history. The 30-year-old is now the three-time Grammy winner’s go-to stylist, known for creating whimsical looks that regularly go viral. Lately, the pair have taken her wardrobe beyond whimsy, using it as a vehicle to deliver messages about civic engagement before the 2020 election. After Monroe gets a concept approved, he starts figuring out how to create the design — sketching on his iPad, creating mood boards, collecting materials, and reaching out to designers to reimagine pieces for Lizzo — rather than merely recreate a runway look. "It’s like, how can we make this fit her body well?” he says. “How can you make it look even better than just what's on the runway?” Monroe draws on the past, particularly the early ’80s, to get his best ideas. “That whole scene [with] Keith Haring, Basquiat, Madonna, Andy Warhol, just at the tail end of Studio 54 into the early ’80s. It got all turned upside-down with the AIDS crisis, but right before then, it was a really magical time for artists,” he says. “It's so hypnotizing that all these people were just hanging out and doing similar things that I would want to do with my friends. They were making stuff and doing it and not thinking about it, and there was no pressure to fit a certain standard.” As Lizzo gets more and more famous, it’s become easier to find collaborators to bring her looks to life, but it’s still not as simple as it should be. “It's weird cause [some designers will] say little snide things that I'll catch, like about [Lizzo] being 'healthy' or whatever. I'm like, ‘What? She works out every day. She does an hour-and-a-half set on tour every day for six months. She is healthy!’ And I can't react in the moment to things like that, but I'm just like, ‘Oh my God’ and do an eye roll,” he says. “A lot of times when that happens, I don't end up following through with these people.” Still, Monroe’s hopeful about the future of plus-size red carpet fashion. “I see so many curvy women being showcased on style blogs and being represented in the industry as a whole. I think Lizzo played a huge role in that and others before her, like Beth Ditto,” he says. In the meantime, Monroe isn’t letting antiquated ideas deter him — and in fact, Lizzo is getting looks created by the biggest names in fashion, including Christian Siriano, Moschino, Valentino, and Marc Jacobs. Her 2019 Met Gala look, designed by Marc Jacobs, is one of Monroe’s favorites, partially due to the viral responses it generated after the star wore the pink feathery coat through airport security. “We kept the coat and were like, ‘We'll send it back later,’ and then we were like, ‘How are we going to transfer it?’” he says. “I wanted her to wear it for the next performance in Nashville as an opener, and so she just wore it in the airport — I wasn't going to put it under [the plane]!” Ahead of the 2020 election, Lizzo’s outfits began to take on political significance. The star posted several voter-inspired looks to Instagram, including an “Auntie Sam” American flag corset and a Christian Siriano "vote" dress. “The whole concept was developed after Lizzo discovered how many people didn’t participate in the last election,” says Monroe. “Forty percent of the population did not vote. That all had us in shock, and we used that as a jumping off point.” In one photo, Lizzo poses with one side of her body covered in an American flag jumpsuit and the other half completely bare. The half-outfit styling was intentional to reframe the discussion about patriotism and who is “allowed” to call themselves an American citizen. “We all felt a little uncomfortable when we saw the U.S. flag because of what the Trump administration had attributed to their idea of patriotism,” says Monroe. “But I wanted to help reclaim that symbolism because the American flag represents so much more than what the Trumpers want to claim... but what does 40% of the flag look like? It seems incomplete and like it’s missing something, which we thought would be a poetic way of pushing the campaign of unity, participation, and the civil liberty of voting.” Monroe also worked with Siriano to customize the "vote" dress that Lizzo wore to the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. The look complemented Lizzo’s politically charged award acceptance speech, in which she said, “Would I be standing here right now if it weren’t for the big Black women who refused to have their voices suppressed?” Then there was Lizzo twerking in a red top hat, an American flag corset, a white dress shirt, and a blazer as the country’s very own “Auntie Sam.” “The Uncle Sam propaganda for the military is easily identifiable, but what if it was turned around and replaced with her message, ‘I want you to vote’?” says Monroe. “It was just the perfect sort of symbolism that’s Americana but playful and completely enhances her voting campaign. Plus, I finally got to pay homage to the image of Naomi Campbell, who did a similar thing in the ’90s.” Monroe is looking forward to more sartorial moments with Lizzo that make a powerful statement. “When you have the opportunity to be in front of a lot of people, and because of who you are, they already pay attention to what you wear, it just makes sense to use it as another vehicle to relay a message of great importance.” Overall, Monroe’s No. 1 priority is simply making Lizzo look like she feels: good as hell. “It's always a matter of the sexiest top for a reveal, or she's like, ‘You know me, I don't mind being thot-y!’” he says. “At the core of everything, she’s always got to be sexy — and she is sexy, period. She's sexy, and people need to know it.”

Brad and Barry discuss all things Lizzo and we have an added bonus with Brad's interview with the rising superstar back in May. Intro Music: "Water Me" by Lizzo

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It’s a new week and its time for a new episode of Back 2 BESA Podcast. This time around I get to know Seattle R&B artist ParisAlexa!I found out about ParisAlexa during my interview with Lilly Million, and when I seen her music video for “Water Me,” it was a MUST to have her on the show.We talk about blogs only sharing negative news vs the positive things celebrities do. Remy Ma vs Brittany Taylor. What it’s like to be a Black female artist in Seattle, her experience on the new up and coming reality show Songland, people who try to put her in a box and so much more!Follow us on Instagram:@Naybesa@ParisAlexaMusic

It’s a live streaming Pride48 event. The gang records the episode live on pride48.com while the listeners respond by the chatroom. Bash is in San Francisco Pride, so Jesse from Finest City Improve joins us again. We talk about their upcoming "Impride: Lip Synch Battle Brunch" on July 8, hosted by podcast favorite Mariam T! If you are in San Diego, be sure to check it out. Visit https://www.finestcityimprov.com/upcoming-shows/ for info and contact Finest City Improv, if you want to compete in the Lip Sync battle! Also on this episode, we play a round of Would You Rather, talk about the almost-dead movie genre of RomCom's and a lot more. Anything can happen on live recording, and with this gang it usually does! Our band pick this week is the American alternative hip-hop artist, Lizzo, and her song “Water Me.“ Theme music: “Around the Bend” by Evan Schaeffer  http://soundcloud.com/evanschaeffer. The Click: Tony’s Click this week is a San Diego staple, Glitz Glam, who has been serving gender-bending, raunchy fierceness since 1997!  https://www.instagram.com/jesse_glam/?hl=en Megan’s Click this week is San Diego’s very own Major League Rugby team SAN DIEGO LEGION https://www.instagram.com/sdlegion/?hl=en Jesse’s Click is his own Finest City Improv! https://www.finestcityimprov.com Thirst Trap!Tony’s Thirst Trap this week is the very sexy Country Singer/Songwriter, Mat Slovacek. Follow him on instagram https://www.instagram.com/bigcountry_fit/?hl=en Megan’s Thirst Trap is ANY rugby man! LOL she loves her Rugby! Jesse’s Thirst Trap is the guys from the Instagram account Noodlesandbeef. If you like beef, check them out! https://www.instagram.com/noodlesandbeef/?hl=en

This week we were joined by US activists Tamika Mallory and Breanne Butler from the Women's March on Washington. Tamika is in town for her talk at Antidote on September 3. Go Home, Everything Is Terrible: Schoolgirls staged a walkout on Clementine Ford after she refused to take questions from male students at exclusive Aquinas College in Melbourne. Scott McGehee and David Siegel will write and direct an all-female adaption of "Lord Of The Flies," based on the iconic 1954 William Golding novel about a group of boys stranded on a deserted island. Video clips out this week:  Taylor Swift's video for Look What You Made Me Do raises questions about what Trump-era pop culture looks like and Swift's political silence. Katy Perry has released what looks like a bad Space Jam remake for Swish Bish, believed to be a response to Taylor Swift’s 2014 kiss-off anthem “Bad Blood." Lizzo’s amazing new clip for Water Me was directed by Quinn Wilson and Asha Efia. The stunning optics speaks to the importance of self-care and support, and its also just such a banger of a track.

The Soul Parlour Radio Show #46 Join Mr Tay and Brotha Reese in the Soul Parlour where we help you get your soul right. The Soul Parlour plays Neo Soul and R&B with a splash of progressive Hip Hop and Jazz. Listen to the Soul Parlour online --------------------------- LIVE WEBCAST Every Tuesday 7-9pm PST www.thesoulparlour.com Join our Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/thesoulparlour Playlist 1.Intro by Mr Tay & Brotha Reese 2.Long Way From Here (feat Sangin Sara)b - Mike Blankenship 3.Troubles Of The Past - Nieve 4.Look At Me - Prince 5.Pushin - Society of Soul 6.Drifting In A Daydream - SoulChef 7.Only Love - Andra Day 8.Complicated - Tess Henley 9.Water Me ft Leon Ware - Theophilus London 10.Everyday - Gerald Levert 11.Concrete Jungle - Hil St Soul 12.Twuneanunda - Dwele 13.We Were In Love - Hil St Soul 14.Persevere (feat Snoop Dogg) - Robert Glasper Experiment 15.My Life (album version) - Erykah Badu 16.Get Away (feat Gordon Chambers) - Angela Johnson 17.Salvador - Beverly Knight 18.If There Was A Love - Thief 19.Heartbreaks & Setbacks - Thundercat 20.Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas 21.Time For Love - Toni Redd 22.Let Me Sing - Tracy Cruz 23.Take Me - Tracy Cruz 24.Beautiful Contradiction ft Musiq Souldchild - Beverly Knight 25.Unconditional Eyes - Amp Fiddler 26.Fire - Green Tea 27.Tonight - Impromp2 28.Beautiful Fantasy - Gwendolyn Collins 29.Aftermath (Taken From A Brighter Day) - Ronny Jordan

Today’s episode dives head-first into Heavey’s fourth pillar of health- Nutrition. Heavey breaks down the world of protein, vegetarian thoughts, and hydration while Grant grills him on veggie, nut, and fruit myths. All of this while enjoying a pour of Glenfarclas 25 Year Old Scotch. [1:33] Pillar O’ Nutrition [2:30] Diet is a 4 Letter Word [4:20] The Priority [5:30] Not All Protein is Created Equal [6:10] Change Your Shit [8:05] Why is Protein Important [9:10] Protein Intake Goals [9:25] I’m Not a Doctor, but that’s Not True [11:00] Breakfast [11:30] Water Me [12:08] Water Math [13:00] Could That Be Why I Fart So Much? [14:55] Food Quality- the Grocery Store Perimeter [16:20] Steve Jobs the Fruitarian [17:20] Shut Up [19:05] Heavey Hates Cauliflower [19:30] Salty Nuts [21:30] Drawing Pillars and Pyramids [21:50] Carbohydrates [23:10] Shirts! [23:50] Gluten is silly [24:30] Scotch is Gluten Free- It’s Science [25:10] A Special Scotch- Glenfarclas 25 Year Old