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Pop Essays #38: Texas, ‘I’ll See It Through’

Mar 14, 2024Apr 26, 2024 ~ Alex the Pensmith ~ Leave a comment

Texas appeared on the soundtrack to the Richard Curtis blockbuster Love Actually in 2003 - something most people have forgotten until now.

The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 29)

Jul 20, 2023Apr 27, 2024 ~ Alex the Pensmith ~ Leave a comment

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)

May 11, 2023Mar 29, 2025 ~ Alex the Pensmith ~ Leave a comment

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)

Feb 16, 2023Apr 27, 2024 ~ Alex the Pensmith ~ 2 Comments

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)

Dec 8, 2022Oct 25, 2024 ~ Alex the Pensmith ~ Leave a comment

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)

Apr 7, 2022Nov 13, 2024 ~ Alex the Pensmith ~ Leave a comment

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)

Mar 17, 2022Nov 13, 2024 ~ Alex the Pensmith ~ Leave a comment

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...

The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 48)

Nov 26, 2020Nov 28, 2020 ~ Alex the Pensmith ~ Leave a comment

It's Thursday, and midday, and thus time to bring you another golden nugget of pop goodness from Y2K with The Story of Pop: 2000. And once again this week, it's another number one from a hit movie soundtrack... 2000 had been a year of mixed blessings for Destiny's Child. On the one hand, there was … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 48)

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