To close out 2024, Brittany and friends are running through the best and worst pop culture moments of the past 365 days.
Whether you had the brat summer of your dreams, or spent the year following every jaw-dropping twists in this year's election season, it's time to wind down and reflect on the highs and lows of the year. On this episode of It's Been A Minute, Brittany Luse invites NPR's Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe and Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker to name winners and losers in this year's categories.
This year's awards categories and nominees are:
WORD OF THE YEAR
"Crash Out"
"Cutesy"
"Hawk Tuah"
THE LOUDEST GASP HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
Katt Williams on Club Shay Shay
Kendrick Lamar & Drake's Rap Beef
The response to the Trump assassination attempt
VILLAIN OF THE YEAR
Life
Willful Ignorance
Dr. Rachel Gunn (AKA Raygun)
BIGGEST FLOP OF THE YEAR
Tesla's Cybertrucks
Drake
Megalopolis
THE "WHO'S THIS DIVA?" AWARD
The extra special award for the diva you did not know before 2024 but whose name lives rent free in your head now.
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