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On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, guest Chris Molanphy joins the gabbers to discuss the “Blurred Lines” court decision. Could the verdict set a troubling precedent for musicians? Next up, Snapchat Discover is a new media content platform from the wildly popular app Snapchat. Will Oremus joins to talk about whether it’s the future of news. Finally, the critics talk about what makes a good book, movie, or TV show title.

Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:

•  “Got to Give It Up” by Marvin Gaye
•  “Blurred Lines” by Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke
•  Growing Pains
•  “Lost Without U” by Robin Thicke
•  “Sex Therapy” by Robin Thicke
•  Keith Harris’ take on the “Blurred Lines” decision in the Guardian
•  “Stay With Me” by Sam Smith and “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty
•  “My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison and “He’s So Fine” by the Chiffons
•  “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana and “More Than a Feeling” by Boston
•  Loud Quiet Loud
•  Will Oremus’ piece in Slate on why Snapchat is misunderstood by “olds”
•  Willa Paskin’s piece in Slate on how Snapchat is restoring channel surfing
•  Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel on why Snapchat Discover will be good for news outlets
•  “What I Almost Called My Play” by Erik Piepenburg in the New York Times
•  There Will Be Blood
•  Oil! by Upton Sinclair
•  The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner
•  Jacob Rubin’s piece in Slate about the death of titles
•  Safe
•  Double Indemnity
•  Infinite Jest
•  A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
•  Kiss Me Deadly
•  Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
•  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
•  Casablanca
•  Chinatown
•  Bridge to Terabithia
•  Appointment in Samarra
•  Eyeless in Gaza
•  Hot Tub Time Machine
•  The Man With X-Ray Eyes
•  Sharknado
•  Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
•  Camel Spiders
•  Dinocroc, Supercroc, and Dinocroc vs. Supergator
•  Prep
•  20 Feet From Stardom

Endorsements:

Dana: The Wrecking Crew directed by Denny Tedesco

Jessica: “Where the Bodies are Buried” by Patrick Radden Keefe

Julia: Episode 207 of Looking, “Looking for a Plot”

Outro: “Friends and Lovers” by Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson

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