Desperate For Attention

About Desperate For Attention

Each week, Leslie Simon discusses the latest pop-culture headlines hitting her social feed, lovingly dissects the current state of music, revisits delicious watercooler moments from the early aughts, and examines the life and times of the scene's biggest bands.

Publisher

Leslie Simon

Category

music · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

30 Oct 2024

Latest episode

3 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Sept 2025

   Emo Isn't Dead (And It Never Was)

   While music journalists spent two decades writing obituaries for a genre that never actually died, emo quietly executed the most successful cultural infiltration in modern music history.

2. 

   27 Aug 2025

   Playlist Paralysis: Why 2025 Sounds Like Everything - Part 2

   From teens developing fake nostalgia in real-time to the underground rebellion against Spotify’s mind control, this episode explores how we’re all just winging it in the broken time machine.

3. 

   20 Aug 2025

   Playlist Paralysis: Why 2025 Sounds Like Everything - Part 1

   This week, host Leslie Simon investigates the death of the 20-year nostalgia cycle and tries to answer why streaming algorithms have left us culturally unmoored.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

77,979

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

45

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

51