{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/35669120-6056-4c38-8f33-80df7112e8df/65a6b14642280b0017670eab?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"How Mean Girls made ‘fetch’ happen","description":"<p>Twenty years after Mean Girls introduced Regina George and her pink-clad Plastics to cinema screens, the high-school Queen Bee is back in a new musical film and a West End stage musical. So why is a film for teenage girls still so popular two decades later? And what did it expose about the complicated politics of girl world?</p><p><em>This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.</em></p><p><strong>Guest</strong>: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, pop culture historian and author of <a href=\"https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/so-fetch-the-making-of-mean-girls-and-why-were-still-so-obsessed-with-it-jennifer-keishin-armstrong?variant=40282443317326\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We’re Still So Obsessed With It)</a>.</p><p><strong>Host</strong>: Manveen Rana.</p><p><strong>Clips</strong>: Mean Girls (2004)/Paramount Pictures, CBS Sunday Morning, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien/NBC, The Breakfast Club/Universal Pictures, Clueless/Paramount Pictures, Rosalind Wiseman/The Empower Program, Mean Girls (2024)/Paramount Pictures, Apex Predator/Barrett Wilbert Weed, Erika Henningsen/Mean Girls (Original Broadway Cast Recording).</p><p><strong>Read more:</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-enduring-cult-of-mean-girls-mx39hvvpc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The enduring cult of Mean Girls</a> </li><li><a href=\"https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mean-girls-musical-renee-rapp-interview-qhrj6sx8b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">That is so fetch! Reneé Rapp, the star of the new Mean Girls movie</a></li></ul><p><strong>Email us: </strong>storiesofourtimes@thetimes.co.uk</p><p><strong>Find out more about our bonus series for Times subscribers: </strong><a href=\"https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-subscription-bonus-content-apple-podcasts-gdrm5k6cz\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">'Inside the newsroom'</a></p>","author_name":"The Times"}