Brittany Spanos

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Brittany Spanos is an American music journalist. Spanos is a senior writer at Rolling Stone . As well as writing for the magazine, she hosts two podcasts: Don't Let This Flop and 500 Greatest Albums. She is also an adjunct instructor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. [1]

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Life and career

Spanos grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago before moving to New York to study at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She became Clubs Editor at the Village Voice and freelanced for magazines including Rookie , Cosmo , Vulture , The Hairpin and SPIN before joining Rolling Stone as a staff writer in 2015. [2] [3] [4] Her work has also been published in Smithsonian Magazine , Slate magazine , and she has worked as a consultant for MTV. [5] [6] [4]

In 2018 Spanos interviewed Janelle Monáe, providing Monáe with an opportunity to give the first extended discussion of her queer identity politics. [7]

Since 2020 she has been the host of a weekly podcast called Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, which, according to magazine, is based on an "updated version of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums list". [8] [9] [10]

In 2022, Spanos taught a class on Taylor Swift at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] In February 2024, she delivered the keynote introductory address to Swiftposium, a 2-day symposium on Swift at Melbourne University. [16]

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