What happens when a French Armenian guy and an Aussie gal get together to discuss their favourite topic? They drop it like it's pop!
Join best friends Vicken and Georgie as they bring their own lens of journalism (Vicken) and PR (Georgie) to some of the biggest stories and names in pop culture (and maybe some not so well known stories).
While we can't guarantee they will always agree, we can guarantee they will put their heart and soul into each conversation.
Expect some 'robust' conversations, polite disagreements, old school throwbacks and references and lots of laughs along the way.
We are unfiltered, unedited, raw and ready for any topic!
Follow us at @droplikeitspop on instagram.
It won't be a matter of where they are, but of when they are. In this very special season finale, join Georgie in Melbourne and Vicken in France as the DILIP duo stand on different sides of the stroke of midnight on New Year's eve. While time stands still and the time zones between them bid 2025 farewell, our favourite media specialists will revisit the past year's most significant moments in pop culture and look ahead to what the next twelve months have in store, in what promises to be...
12 Dec 2025
A matter of frequency: when your voice says it all
It's not what you say, it's how you say it... is the old adage we've all heard time and time again. One of life's most important communication tools, our speaking voice can quite simply make or break how we pass on information and opinion. From tone to flow, from Ariana and J. Law to David Beckham to the latest courtroom dramas, join Georgie and Vicken as they look into one of pop culture's most essential instruments. Get in touch with us
9 Nov 2025
90s' nostalgia: a decade redeemed
Join the DILIP duo as they revisit the once much-maligned decade that brought us Brit Pop, Madonna's most radical reinventions, 90210-mania and so much more. Hot off the heels of Oasis's Melbourne shows, hear Georgie and Vicken question the concept of nostalgia, from personal reminiscence and collective rediscovery to intergenerational reconnection. Get in touch with us
23 Oct 2025
Taylor remade: the marketing of happiness
As The Life of a Showgirl takes the world by storm, Georgie and Vicken discuss Taylor Swift's latest era and the mechanisms at play in marketing the singer's sentimental bliss. Is happy the new tortured? Can there be too much of a good thing? Are Swifties ready to CANCEL the melancholy? Join our duo as they look into the fate of this year's biggest musical moment and pop culture phenom. Get in touch with us
13 Oct 2025
A swinging reunion: the London episode
In this very special episode, join Georgie and Vicken in one of their favourite cities in the world, London, as they catch up in person for the first time in seven years! As emotions run high in their hotel bow-window turned improvised studio, an over-excited Vicken high-jacks the conversation and grills Georgie on personal social media narratives and the concept of over-sharing in the world of pop. Then London takes center-stage as Georgie shares her insights on what makes the city suc...
21 Jul 2025
Families in the media: bursting our closest bubble
Family. A single word carrying so many of the aspirations and pressures of just being, and a concept that's always been at the heart of popular culture and public scrutiny, in fiction, reality and reality television. Join Georgie and Vicken as they break down representations of family in the media, from the core values it embodies to the ever-changing bubble it stands as, that somehow never bursts. Get in touch with us
5 Jun 2025
Jumping the shark: when the story goes too far
Hosts Georgie and Vicken analyze fictional and real-life narratives that stretch plausibility, exploring how genre, format, culture, and audience loyalty impact storytelling.
26 May 2025
The Culture We Inherit: A Pop Tribute to Dad
Hosts Georgie Stayches and Vicken Couligian explore how loved ones shape our cultural perspectives, discussing the pop culture legacy of family and community in this personal episode.
8 Jun 2024
The pressure to answer: questioning the interview
Singers in tears, actors confronting inappropriate questions…
Some pop culture Q&As have left a lasting, indelible mark in the media landscape. As the past few years seem to have brought about a softer approach to getting answers, Georgie and Vicken take a hard look at one of the cornerstones of PR and journalism: the interview.
From light-hearted conversations to blatant, plain bullying, the DILIP media specialists revisit, decipher, praise or, yes, call out, the good, the bad, and the ugly behind the question mark.
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1 Jun 2024
Bonjour mate: Down under and the French connection
Friendships are often born out of shared interests, passions, and experiences.
But what do Melbourne gal Georgie and Frenchman Vicken have in common that has resulted in such a special bond? Among other things, a love of each other’s country.
Join our two media specialists as they share their very special take on how France sees Australia and vice versa.
From iconic films to news coverage, to music, TV, fashion and gastronomy, the DILIP duo takes a hard look at soft power and pays homage to the greats of pop culture from Down Under and The Hexagon (and the glue that binds them all, Tina Arena).
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15 May 2024
Taking in the Feuds
Picking sides is sometimes hard.
In this episode, Georgie and Vicken’s friendship is put to the test as they analyze pop culture’s most notorious recent feuds in disagreement.
Besties turned frenemies, iconic casts that could not stand each other, lovers’ spats, and siblings wars: no feud is too complex for our media specialists to take on.
And from the PR-orchestrated kiss and make-ups to podcasts as the ultimate truth vehicles, the DILIP duo reveal all the media mechanisms at play when things in pop get ugly.
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4 May 2024
Comedy: the pressure to be funny
Is there anything more ubiquitous in pop culture today than comedy?
From comic relief to formal roasting, from talk shows to awards ceremonies, it’s everywhere, a language all its own, and with it comes the permanent pressure to be funny.
Join communications specialists Georgie and Vicken for their longest episode yet, as they look into the mechanisms of stand-up comedy, its presence in the media and how a bad joke can send even the most apt PR specialists into a spinning frenzy.
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1 May 2024
Comedy: the injunction to laugh
Has anything changed more in the cultural landscape of the past two decades than the comedy that makes us laugh?
Join Seinfeld-fan Georgie and forever Friends-fan Vicken as they jokingly confront their very different views on comedy.
From the pressure put on audiences to LOL on cue to the greatly varying senses of humour differences in culture can create, no topic is off-limits for the media-savvy Drop it Like It’s Pop duo.
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24 Apr 2024
Crossover albums: the new Renaissance
As Beyoncé’s Renaissance Act II: Cowboy Carter takes the world by storm, Drop it Like It’s Pop dives into the concept of crossover in pop culture.
Fun fact: Renaissance means to be born again. But Queen Bey’s refusal to define her latest project as anything other than a Beyoncé record has the world wondering where one genre stops, and another begins...
Join Georgie and Vicken as they take a closer look at the media and PR mechanisms at play in artists reinventing themselves.
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17 Apr 2024
Taylor -Made: A new era in narrative and media discourse
In this launch episode, Vicken and Georgie talk about someone the world's been obsessed with for years, and never more than in 2023 & 2024 - Taylor Swift.
And if the first part of 2024 is any indication, there is no sign of people's interest waning in any way.
In this pilot episode, Taylor-Made, they discuss a new era in narrative and media discourse - and go on some side quests along the way.
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