Seeing Double, S Club's debut and only big screen jaunt, may have been marred in its execution, but one of its songs proved they were still at the top of their game musically prior to their split...
Pop Essays #56: S Club, ‘Who Do You Think You Are’
Category: Film
Pop Essays #38: Texas, ‘I’ll See It Through’
Texas appeared on the soundtrack to the Richard Curtis blockbuster Love Actually in 2003 - something most people have forgotten until now.
Burning the God damn house right down: why Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Saltburn inspired renaissance is a very good thing
It was just shy of two years ago on this here corner of the web that I was writing and enthusing about the 2020s renaissance that Kate Bush was enjoying at the hands of her song, "Running Up That Hill", being used in the Netflix supernatural drama series, Stranger Things.Little could I have foreseen then, … Continue reading Burning the God damn house right down: why Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Saltburn inspired renaissance is a very good thing
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 29)
Jamiroquai had gone six years deep into their career without earning a number one single. It took a film of monster proportions to do so...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 19)
Even as they played to expected form by slowing things down for their third single, even this was not approached from a conventional angle by Aqua...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 7)
Multi Academy Award winning and box office record breaking, James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic had a ballad for the theme song equally as gigantic as the film's subject...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 49)
Making his movie debut as a struggling rapper in the Oscar nominated 8 Mile also provided Eminem with one of his biggest hits and a fourth UK chart topper to boot...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 14)
The signature tune from her big screen debut in the movie Crossroads, "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" also found Britney Spears at her own personal crossroads as she navigated her journey into womanhood...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 11)
Sacha Baron Cohen's best known comic creation made the potentially rocky leap from the small screen to the big one with Ali G Indahouse, thanks to help from Mr Lover Lover himself on the film's theme song...
JLS: Eyes Wide Open – the 10th anniversary of an intimate 21st century pop film
When pop bands get to a certain level of success - hit singles and albums, stacks of awards and sellout tours, it's safe to say they've reached national ubiquity and adoration. It is therefore not out the question, then, to mark this transition into absolute phenomenon via their first big screen outing. But it's a … Continue reading JLS: Eyes Wide Open – the 10th anniversary of an intimate 21st century pop film
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