HSBC Executive who wakes up at 5:30 to work out, always eats green and studies at Stanford in her spare time, what's on your iPod?

The Stairway To Heaven of annoying Day in the Life articles. What does she listen to in between her 7:30 am tennis game, catching up with friends on facetime, enjoying waterside views during lunch, getting her certificate in innovation and entrepreneurship, evening yoga, promoting women's empowerment in Papua New Guinea, or taking an evening walk with her boyfriend while reflecting on her key wins?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6jZgMaZk4

whatever is on the radio

While she's commuting, she listens to a podcast — her favorites include "The Pitch," "Dorm Room Tycoon," and "The Goop Podcast"

I don’t think these type of people listen to music. Was going to suggest perhaps there’s only business podcasts in there and guess what? They actually are.

They may sometimes tap their feet to coldplay.

I don’t know if I should feel like a slacker next to her but her life sounds miserable to me.

Because she's all about "female empowerment" despite directly and actively contributing to a system that oppresses the same people she is ostensibly trying to help, there'd definitely be some Beyoncè on there.

I feel like it's probably just this song on loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ht80uzIhNs

Because she's all about "female empowerment" despite directly and actively contributing to a system that oppresses the same people she is ostensibly trying to help, there'd definitely be some Beyoncè on there.

― triggercut

I like this double burn

I have never heard Imagine Dragons until now

FP'd you

Wait, you've never heard that ubiquitous, abysmal fucking song?

I haven't knowingly heard it and at this point I'm afraid to click on the video to check if I have.

This person can not be real.

I feel like it's in tons of movie trailers, commercials, probably wedding videos

I bit the bullet and am happy to report that I'd never heard it before. But then again, I don't watch TV and see no more than 4-5 films per year so that might explain it (I used to love film until I developed a weird phobia of it that I'm still struggling to shake off).

I go into multiplex theaters fifteen minutes after the start time at Regal, twenty minutes at AMC, and only twice at all in the last three months since Moviepass turned to crap. TV reception at mine is very bad, but I watch Jeopardy once or twice a month if I'm eating at home at 7:30 and it's working, and have hate-half-watched SNL twice this season. So maybe I've heard it in the background when I go to the kitchen during commercials.

the great thing about the woman in the article is that she seems to have a very busy job that doesn't entail actually doing anything

^^ wondered about that too

Idk if I've listened to "I Bet My Life" before either tbh, although it could have blended in with a bunch of other things from that time. I know "Radioactive", "Believer", and "Thunder" like the back of my hand, though. I actually didn't know they ever drew on twee/folk elements.

the great thing about the woman in the article is that she seems to have a very busy job that doesn't entail actually doing anything

With those 90 minute lunches

90 minute lunches followed by hour midday train rides.

"Tonight I Fancy Myself"

Anyway, the correct answer is obviously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfWMv8Y1V5E

are there ASMR podcasts? if so, they are on that iPod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEP0Gi8kZhg

These types of people never listen to music, only content.

haha Tycho is totally it*

*i ashamedly kinda like tycho

Kinda ?? to be ripping on this person from a dumb clickbait feature?

She's on LinkedIn, you could just message her and ask what she listens to (maybe she'll respond): https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniaedwards/

Messaging her after a clickbait feature honestly seems more ?? than jokingly speculating about it on a message board.

Yeah I guess I was more trying to subtly make the point that she's a real person

is this your first "what's on your ipod?" thread morris?

I'm usually big on privacy but I guess this thread doesn't seem that harsh to me. Afaict, she's a wealthy and powerful person who agreed to have a clickbait article written about her comfortable and privileged lifestyle. She had to know that people would discuss it and it could get a lot worse than "lol I bet she likes Imagine Dragons".

in all honesty she seems like she probably listens to endless recordings of living things being mutilated. just lots of bones being crunched, flesh being shredded, agonizing screams, etc.

Indeed, it could get a lot snarkier and it has (see Twitter).

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xp aka the Goop Podcast

I'll leave you guys to it, then. Seems like she's essentially a business development exec, and I assume the feature in fluffcore Business Insider was placed as exposure for HSBC; guess it served its purpose.

in all honesty she seems like she probably listens to endless recordings of living things being mutilated.

I think that's strictly her meditation soundtrack

Another good profile on banking sector movers and shakers!

https://dealbreaker.com/2018/10/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-morgan-stanley-first-year-analyst-who-wakes-up-at-3-a-m-covered-in-his-own-sweat-and-fear-eats-when-hes-allowed-cries-alone-in-elevators-and-fantasizes-every-day-about-run/

Lol, that made my morning. I like to think there's some late Schnittke and DSBM on his iPod.

The secret Wu Tang album
Joey Bada$$
Money by Pink Floyd
Get Rich or die tryin by 50 cent
Money money money by Abba
Gold digger by Kanye West
The theme tune to Only Fools and Horses
Pat Cash
Johnny Cash
Money for nothing by Dire Straits
Got your money by ODB
P Money
Eddie Money
MONEY
Money and the Power by Kid ink
Rich as fuck by Lil Wayne
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24 different Business related podcasts

That dealbreaker article with those Bosch paintings is hilarious.

The paintings really clinch it. Speaking of which, this is as appropriate a moment as any to point out that David Ryckaert III's take on Dulle Griet (Mad Meg from Flemish folklore) makes for an underrated alternative.

Of course, this can only mean that Giovanni Verrando's Dulle Griet is also on his iPod.

24 different Business related podcasts

when she found out I like podcasts, a co-worker of mine asked me for recommendations for "business podcasts" to listen to in her spare time and I almost died