Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast

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  • Are you ready to go back to the year 2000? Combining storytelling and commentary, this podcast returns to some of the noughties’ biggest cultural moments, trends and figures, and explores them with the added benefit of twenty years’ hindsight. The world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Simran Hans and Tara Joshi, two self-proclaimed fangirls who grew up on the internet. Film critic, Simran, and music critic, Tara, explore how it feels to return to the defining songs, shows and sleepover movies of their childhoods, and what they tell us about pop culture today. Special guests will be joining the hosts each month. Join us on a journey into the new millennium, a period of change and optimism, examining the surprising, funny and poignant parallels between then and now. Launching 6 October 2020 – new episodes available every Tuesday.
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  • Award Season: The best pop culture of the year 2000

    Award Season: The best pop culture of the year 2000
    Dec 1 2020
    Award Season is a highlight of the pop culture calendar. From MTV’s Video Music Awards in September through to the Academy Awards in March, we are treated to nearly six months of red carpet looks, tearful acceptance speeches and, if we’re lucky, a healthy dose of celeb drama. What better way to end the first season of Twenty Twenty than by looking at who won big in the year 2000, and dishing out some awards of our own. Let the show begin... This is our last episode of the series, and we want to hear your feedback! Fill in this survey by Tuesday 15th December to be in with a chance of winning a copy of Sylvia Patterson’s, ‘I’m not with the band’: https://forms.gle/s5XBbYu3YSadRhCV8 And keep in touch! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for updates on Twenty Twenty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 mins
  • Gilmore Girls: A roundtable with Anna Leszkiewicz and Zarina Muhammad

    Gilmore Girls: A roundtable with Anna Leszkiewicz and Zarina Muhammad
    Nov 24 2020
    This week we’re hosting a special roundtable on everyone’s favourite mother-daughter duo, The Gilmore Girls. We’re joined by critic Zarina Muhammad, who is one half of art collective The White Pube, and Anna Leszkiewicz, Culture Editor at the New Statesman.   Together we discuss Gilmore Girls’ timeless appeal and its second life as a streaming sensation. We’ll also look back at how the show was received at the time as well as the grittier themes of class and privilege tucked beneath its cozy exterior.   References  Gilmore Girls Review, Zarina Muhammad - The White Pube SRSLY Gilmore Girls Quiz SRSLY Gilmore Girls Special   Clips: Where You Lead I Will Follow (Gilmore Girls Theme), Carole King Opening Scene, S1EP1 Gilmore Girls Music - La La Song's Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    56 mins
  • Soundtracks: Coyote Ugly and the lost art of the movie single

    Soundtracks: Coyote Ugly and the lost art of the movie single
    Nov 17 2020
    Pure Shores by All Saints. Independent Women by Destiny’s Child. Can’t Fight the Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes. These chart-topping tracks are some of the year 2000’s most memorable pop hits — but none of them would exist if it weren’t for movies. Designed as marketing tie-ins for the original soundtracks to The Beach, Charlie’s Angels and Coyote Ugly, the legacies of these songs have outlasted the movies they were attached to. In this episode, we explore the increasingly entwined relationship between Hollywood, pop music and the hype machine and how it’s changed over the last 20 years. We talk to legendary music supervisor and record executive Kathy Nelson (Miami Vice, Pulp Fiction, Dangerous Minds, High Fidelity, and SO MANY MORE) who tells us the story behind Can’t Fight the Moonlight.  Got a favourite culture moment from 2000 you want us to talk about? Suggest an episode idea here.  You can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram References and Clips Kathy Nelson, IMDB The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon, Elizabeth Gilbert  Coolio, Gangsta’s Paradise Coyote Ugly (2000) Can’t Fight The Moonlight, LeAnn Rimes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    53 mins
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