Mary, we've just been graced with a pink super moon and I have a really important question for you.

I'm listening as I often do in these openings. So I want you to think back on your personal

catalog and I would like you to be reflective for a moment about the first time that you heard

Rebecca Black's Friday. Were you thinking about JFK the first time you heard it? Did that come

for you later, etc? Yeah, always. I mean, the line sitting in the front seat, sitting in the back

when you're waiting at the bus stop, it's like it asks one of those great questions or mysteries

that never get solved. Like, why are you at the bus stop if you're going to be given a ride to

school on a car the whole time? You know what I mean? It's an intervention in a critical way.

I do also need to know, upon this 10 year anniversary, where were you the first time you heard

that there is a decade remix? I was in this chair two minutes ago when you dropped that on me.

Yeah, I did. I did. Wow. You also told me she was gay and I'm like, I'm shocked. I didn't know.

It's Friday. It's Friday. Wow. She's in love. I don't know.

I

welcome everyone to American Girls The Podcast. This is the podcast where we're reliving

the American Girl Series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm still Alison. Wow. Alison, like, you hit us with,

you know, one of, I don't know, she's one of the great American girls of the 21st century,

but she's an American girl of the 21st century. Yeah, I mean, how much her life has changed

and that gap between her debut as a 13-year-old to now her second debut as a 23-year-old? I think

she's wonderful. I think she's up to some good stuff. I actually like Friday's a song. I'm not

ashamed to admit that. And, you know, I just listened to the first 30 seconds of personal,

her new single. You and I both were dancing along to that right here. And, you know, now finding out

that she's a queer person, I feel compelled to support her whatever direction this is going in. But,

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