I definitely know what I want played at my funeral
because I planned it.
And it's going to be ‘Take a Bow’ by Madonna.
She'll be there singing it live.
(upbeat music)
I am a disco queen, so in the morning,
first thing has to be disco music, something like Sylvester,
like bring the divas out gets me set up for the day.
Keeping on the disco theme,
I quite like Chic in the shower.
I might knock out ‘Le Freak’ or something like that.
Maybe even a Dimitri From Paris remix,
if I'm feeling like extra fruity.
For sort of a sexy moment I might put on
like a Róisín Murphy album, especially her latest album.
It's quite dark and thumping,
which sounds just like my sex life.
(laughing)
My first make out song was
probably something like ‘2 Become 1’ by the Spice Girls,
which has stood the test of time, and it's still amazing.
I was probably making out with my hand
or the pillow.
Pre-coming out Madonna's ‘Music’ album
and sort of post/during coming out
was Madonna's ‘American Life’ album.
I was a big Madonna fan at this stage.
So let's, let's go with like that sort of Madonna era
when she is working with like William Orbit and Mirwais
and just making amazing, amazing, amazing music.
Actually, probably the first podcast I ever listened
to was RuPaul and Michelle Visage's podcast which is called:
‘What's The Tee?’, and it's just sort of them having a chat.
if you go back to the really early episodes
before they started bringing in like big celebrity guests
and stuff, cause they now bring in all the people that are
on the, on the, on the American show.
But if you go right back to the beginning,
it's just Ru and Michelle just sort of chatting about
life in New York when they were 20,
or this film that they just saw.
And it's just like a chat between friends.
My first love probably, ‘Tragedy’ by Steps
by the Bee Gees let's go with the original.
Oh, I don't really have a breakup song.
I'm a bit too top for that, sorry.
(laughing)
I'm going to say mine: ‘Life of The Party’ by Jodie Harsh,
which is out now, season 2 coming soon.
And I think you'll love it.
And it's all about going out and partying,
which we will soon be doing.
I guess the fact that I used to listen to quite a lot
of rap music at one point.
Went through a bit of a rap phase some reason
like Eminem and stuff
but I still listen to a bit of Kanye West
and that kind thing.
‘I Can't Stand the Rain’, but the Tina Turner version.
Oh my God, it's one of the most awesome songs ever produced.
And it's a cover as well,
which was then later sampled by Missy Elliott.
But the Tina Turner version is like, the king.
I love this record called ‘Brighter Days’ by Cajmere
and it's, there's a Masters At Work remix as well,
which is phenomenal.
And it's just one of those old sort
of house anthems that just lifts you up.
It's good to listen to first thing in the morning.
I really enjoy 'Table Manners with Jessie Ware' and her mum,
and I'm actually dying to go on it. That's just super fun.
Her and her mum and a guest, talking about
food and restaurants and cooking and blah, blah, blah.
And it's quite gossipy and kind of fun
which is what you want from a podcast
when it's on in the background. So, 'Table Manners'.
Yeah, that's good.
I think I probably end up having to lip sync to ‘My House’
by me because that's like, I'm not a lip-sync queen.
That's not a thing that I can do,
and there really aren't that many lyrics in it.
So it would be kind of an easy choice.
The album that really changed my life is ‘World Clique’
by Deee-Lite. They are my favourite band of all time.
They came around in the early 90s in the New York club
scene when like RuPaul was starting out
and people like that.
And they performed Wigstock and all these queer events.
The music they were making was so awesome, so fun,
so celebratory, it was sort of,
its roots were in house music,
but there'd be sort of like hip hop beats and stuff as well.
I mean, we all know ‘Groove Is In The Heart’, ‘cause it's
like the ultimate wedding song but their album
‘World Clique’ is every single millimetre of it is just
interesting pop dance, perfection.
I definitely know what I want played at my funeral
because I planned it.
And it's going to be ‘Take a Bow’ by Madonna.
She'll be there singing it live.
The lyrics are just so sad.
Oh my God, it's... there won't be a dry eye in the house.
But also because it's Madonna, it's kind of fab
and everyone's going to be wearing multi-coloured clothes
no one is gonna be wearing black.
I'll be like audio-animatronic or something
like it's going to be like a super major.
I'm like lasers are like the theme of the funeral.
(laughing)
So dark.
My most played track when I'm DJing is there's this remix
of Róisín Murphy or Moloko actually mixed by Mousse T.
It's mixed with a baseline from Donna Summer,
‘I Feel Love’ and I used to always play it in a DJ set
and friends of mine would like take the piss and say like:
"Oh, Jodie's playing because we can hear that track".
I used to like open my sets with it and stuff
but I try to be a bit less predictable than that now
but definitely that, yeah.
It was the ‘Sing it Back’ meets ‘I Feel Love’ by Donna Summer.
Grace Jones just because she's the queen.
I listen to her most days actually
various points in the day. If I need a bit of a boost,
a little injection of Grace in your face.
Top 5 on my daily mix, surprise, surprise: Róisín Murphy.
Jessie Ware, quality.
Jodie Harsh, awkward.
Lady Gaga and
a bit of Jax Jones as well for some like fun dance.
It's quite a good... quite good selection I think.
Sounds like a party.
Jodie Harsh.
(laughing)
Done.
SG Lewis, who I think is just an awesome musician,
great songwriter, his album is fantastic.
He's got a track called ‘Chemicals’, which is so sick
and he's got features on the album from people like Robyn.
And I think he is sort of like, I think he's going to end
up being the Nile Rodgers of our gen.
I'm going to go, not so obvious for this one and go for
Crystal Waters just because bangers only, love her voice,
great songs and brings me back to like
an era of like the great diva house music
that I wasn't around for the first time.
I going to go for a really obvious one now
Lady Gaga, ‘Born This Way’.
More because it's so unashamedly
queer like literally mentions
like various people in the, in the spectrum
in the spoken part and stuff.
And most songs that come out that are regarded
as queer anthems when you look at them
content wise and the lyrics and stuff
they're kind of just not really that queer.
So I'm going to go with ‘Born This Way’, which is just all
about celebrating who you are, which I think is
what a queer anthem should be.
Last podcast I listened to is ‘Saving Sex in the City 3’
which is basically it's this screenwriter called Lara
and she's based in LA. She's like:
"Really LA, like, oh my God".
And she gets a different writer
or cultural personality in for each episode
and they essentially thrash out a treatment
and a script for Sex in the City 3,
the movie that never happened.
And it is so funny, like, you know, like we open with
with Samantha's funeral and then blah, blah, blah.
And this happens. And then, you know.
It's so funny. So, you've got to listen to it.
I've been Jodie Harsh.
Thank you so much for listening
to my favourite songs and podcasts today.
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And I'll see you on the dance floor very soon hopefully.
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