Popular Music: The Podcast

Is this song REALLY about phones? Your hosts Omar and Analise get to the bottom of that sexy mystery in this week’s episode of Popular Music: The Podcast, when they talk all about Anita Ward’s “Ring My Bell.” You’ll also hear both hosts’ origin stories with disco, including the time Analise cried over it the lack of it in her life. Yes, that’s a thing that happened.       No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday.   Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/0X1IdZYXo6m1PVusRDR3Ec?si=R_0sAWQaTPizB3JbwbH-iQ       Additional Recommendations: KC and the Sunshine Band - “Keep It Coming Love” Lipps, Inc - “Funkytown” Donna Summer - “I Feel Love”

So go-hoo-on, go-HOO-onnnnn! It’s another smack in the face of nostalgia this week on Popular Music: The Podcast as your hosts Omar and Analise time travel back to talk about “Breathless” by The Corrs! There’s so much to uncover here - from the song’s similarities to a 90’s Shania hit to the band’s incredible underdog skyrocket rise to fame. Also, in usual Omar and Analise fashion, they talk about why this song sounds like springtime.        No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday.   Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/5meB5GzBPoxoiIr5aqbLm8?si=l4aZz8HvSjqtzNzSZKDH9A     Additional Recommendations: Shania Twain - “You’re Still The

We go on a lot of TANGENTS in this episode, but it’s OK because this is the band that made Calculus easy for everyone. 2gether or...2Ge+her or...2GET - ANYWAY, this song is fucking fire and Omar and Analise are here to tell you why. 2gether has made contributions to the medical community and also we talk about why Bach would be proud of this song's effortless modulations. That’s right, BACH.    No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday.   Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com    Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/1chVQwUDD41SFOIfjkTXNk?si=yrGwLbcFRuePucO3NxLEeA     Additional Recommendations:   WATCH THE U + Me = Us video HERE   Sev’ral Timez - “Cray Cray” - https://www.you

Sometimes you know “the charts” are off because Omar and Analise insist that every middle schooler in the WORLD listened to this song on endless repeat in 2001. That’s right, kids. We’re doing the Mandy Moore CULT CLASSIC, “In My Pocket.” Omar touches on which countries gave this song the most love, while Analise tries not to embarrass herself like she did fanning over Mandy Moore in the last episode. Spoiler alert: she fails.     No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/65qCmaoInMAvYswd2ZHtgq?si=Uh4aYDkxTruIuDMcrudf0w           Additional Recommendations: Vanessa Carlton - “Paint It Black” Mandy

If your St. Patrick’s Day mix DIDN’T include “Gotta Tell You,” you’re wrong. This week on Popular Music: The Podcast, Omar and Analise talk about one of our favorite Irish pop stars, the incredible, SAMANTHA MUMBA. This song is FULL of music theory tricks, Popettes. Tricky key signatures, deceptive cadences, PICARDY THIRDS. Analise explains it all and Omar reminds us all about Samantha Mumba’s history (as well as the movie she starred in with Guy Pearce.     No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/6S0zbxdvka0dNozTRIbPIJ?si=j106L0KIRi2O8VI54uCjIQ         Additional Recommendations: The Corrs - “B

Happy 3/11, Popettes! Obviously, we couldn’t let this day pass without us talking about 311, which Analise lovingly dubs as “underloved, like Smash Mouth.” “Amber” is the hit of choice and Omar and Analise talk about why this song is so gentle and earnest (which is probably why there are some insecure haters out there) and why it’s beautiful AF. Also this song was a formative queer song for Analise back in 2003, so there’s that.     No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/1gNWQf9PO2RawtTC2bhRPI?si=9BNS-ozUR0y6wlPgmWcbew         Additional Recommendations: Electric Guest - “Amber” Poolside - “Los

Charly Bliss has new music coming out this year and guest, Holland Farkas was so excited about it, she asked US if SHE could be on our podcast to talk about it. A friend asked to BE on a podcast! What?! But that’s how freaking good this song is, you guys! We break down the lyrics, talk about the new pop direction band is taking, and just love all over it. Plus, we get super personal, so feel free to just ditch your therapy appointment this week because this episode has you covered. That was a joke. No seriously, please go to therapy.     No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/2RgHIr2EdLfNuI8OmkHR

It’s like maaaaaagic! “Livin’ Thing”  is FULL of magic - so how appropriate that Omar and Analise are talking to Epic Space Synth Rock artist, Ihui Wu (aka Polartropica) to discuss what it is that makes ELO such a magical band (Ihui thinks it has something to do with the cinematic nature of their music), while Analise breaks down how this unusual little chord progression only adds to the out-of-this-world nature of the song! Also, the three of them just geek out about space...a lot.     No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/2bvPEyrxoFXJ2QA05PcHml?si=mWTInGaVTBaEAf0Y5xdEWg     Additional Recomm

L-A-T-E-R THAT WEEK. You can’t stop the bumrush, Popettes! Last week, we hung out with Charli and Troye in 1999, but THIS week, Omar and Analise travel back to 1999 for one of its GREATEST singles, Len’s “Steal My Sunshine.” Why is this song so fucking HAPPY? What are the lyrics even SAYING? We actually take a visit to songmeanings dot com to find the most insane interpretation. A hint for you: it involves the menstrual cycle.       No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/4Ktt3ZwpSCaNg7WWPNnOCR?si=bhtMIlubRXOc5eydaXlz-w       Additional Recommendations: New Radicals - “Mother We Just Can’t Get E

WE JUST WANT TO GO BACK - BACK TO 1999. This week, Omar and Analise delve into the retro-inspired Charli XCX and Troye Sivan collaboration, all with help from guest, retro synthpop artist, Lauren Kop aka Mini Bear! Lauren talks about her early love for rave music and how it spawned her work as a pop artist (as well as Charli’s!). Also, Omar and Analise have a music theory-related psychic connection to Charli. Seriously. It happens.   LISTEN TO MINI BEAR HERE   No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday.   Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/4MYbkPn7c9DOEz8PzAv0k9?si=HNBg3SsqQrS4tgzNcQfd5w       Additional Recommendations: S Club 7 - “

We’re giving you EVERYYYYTHING! It’s another Spice Girls episode, Popettes! Omar and Analise are obsessed with “Say You’ll Be There.” But, everyone is. PERIOD.       No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Omar Najam and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com     Get a Popular Music t-shirt!: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4134024-classic-pop-music-logo?store_id=205839   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/2LHxeekVblyxhe6lELTbZf?si=mNxL3qQITda-zchIpp_IaQ         Additional Recommendations: Spice Girls - “Stop” Spice Girls - “Do It” S Club 7 - “I’ll Be There” Spice Girls - “Viva Forever” She Moves - “Breaking All The Rules” S.O.A.P. - “This Is How We Party” Miike Snow - “Genghis Khan” Melanie C - “I Turn To You” Lisa Hannigan - “Ocean And A Rock”       Find us on all the socials!   twitter.com/po

All we want to get is a little bit closeeeeR! In episode ONE OH ONE of Popular Music: The Podcast, your hosts Analise and Omar talk about the Tegan and Sara jam of all JAMS - as well as their early days and why it was love at first listen for Omar!     No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/7tACTl9NaxG1XC1vIhGFta?si=3hzMAMW3TSqUrP1kJlIDXA         Additional Recommendations: Erasure - “A Little Respect” New Order - “Regret” A Flock Of Seagulls - “Space Age Love Song” MUNA - “Relief Next to Me” New Order - “Crystal” Blackway, Black Caviar - “What’s Up Danger”       Find us on all the socials!   twitter.com/popmusicpodcast instagram.com/popmusicpodcast facebook.com/popmusicpodcast   Follow Analise: twitt

IT IS THE ONE-HUNDREDTH EPISODE OF POPULAR MUSIC: THE PODCAST AND WE ARE YELLING BECAUSE WE ARE BOTH HAPPY AND SAD!  In this milestone episode, we sadly say goodbye to Steven - as it is his last as a co-host, but we welcome brand spanking (with consent) NEW co-host, Omar Najam (Sunnydale Study Group/Thank You For Questing/2 Broke Geeks)! We could think of no better way to celebrate the duality of this episode than to talk FOR TWO SOLID HOURS about the myriad of emotions on Carly Rae Jepsen’s touchstone album named, what else, EMOTION. It’s a full album review and I doubt you’ll find a more intense, joyous, attentive, and loving review of this album, Carly. PS. Come on the podcast.   No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/l

It’s the NINTY-NINTH EPISODE of Popular Music: The Podcast and we’re finally loving all over one of Steven’s all-time faves, Rihanna! After Steven and Analise settle the score on how to properly pronounce her name, they teach you all about the magic that went into the making of Rihanna’s hit from her album, ANTI, “Needed Me.”     No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/4Sc7H0S3g8j4wOYMkMtKgZ?si=JKxk98jsSCOlUxCSkmm4qQ         Additional Recommendations: Empress Of - “When I’m With Him” Disco Shrine - “Up In The Air” Carly Rae Jepsen - “Fever” Charli XCX - “You’re The One” Rihanna - “Desperado” Rihanna - “Same Ol’ Mistakes” Rihanna - “Never Ending” Rihanna - “Love On The Brain” Rihanna - “Higher” Rihanna

Hey! Don’t write yourself off yet, Popettes. You too will find that special someone who isn’t naked at the party! On this week’s NINETY-EIGHTH episode of Popular Music: The Podcast, Steven and Analise are joined by Steven’s a-meow-zing Purrrcast co-host, Sara Iyer to talk about the 2001 Jimmy Eat World hit, “The Middle.” Steven will tell you all about the band’s early years getting a foot in fame, and the group will discuss why this song is just so damn precious and why the world needs Jimmy Eat World NOW more than ever!   No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6SDWICLEHvWhxuMDPDtzSn?si=q3-JFRdvSEyQ2KrWbd1t_Q       Additional Recommendations: Jimmy Eat World - “Get It Faster” All-American Rejects - “Swing Swing” Blink-

                         heat I wanna feel the        with somebody! Popettes! In our very last episode of 2018, Steven and Analise dissect the brilliance behind Whitney Houston’s 1987 classic. From her shot up to stardom to the song’s lasting legacy. They also make you a pretty damn good New Year’s Eve playlist.       No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/0sxTSSgvoTFxv69VHRrgZk?si=jNAwrXmnTvyfW8n0SJkq8w         Additional Recommendations: Madonna - “Into The Groove” David Bowie - “Let’s Dance” Chic - “Everybody Dance” Re-flex - “The Politics of Dancing” Steve Winwood - “Higher Love” Whitney Houston - “Love Is A Contact Sport” Whitney Houston - “I’m Your Baby Tonight” Grimes - “California”       Find

MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAP-PY HOLLLI-DAYYYYYYS, Popettes! In this NINETY-SIXTH episode of Popular Music: The Podcast, Steven and Analise are joined by Brenna White to discuss the classic of all classic by *NSYNC! Brenna shares her personal tales of seeing the band live (and mishearing a lyric as something MUCH naughtier), while Steven and Analise break down what has made this song stand the test of TWENTY YEARS TIME!   No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/5icxrCuHEnfA0pLoeYbvjL?si=jidVqrcbQ6GBsxVb_FN4oQ         Additional Recommendations: Ariana Grande - “Winter Things” Britney Spears - “My Only Wish (This Year)” Kylie Minogue - “Christmas Wrapping” feat. Iggy Pop Mariah Carey - “Oh Santa!” *NSYNC - “Home

Why is this song so sexy? Should songs about Santa be sexy? GODDESS EARTHA KITT THINKS SO AND SO DO WE here at Popular Music: The Podcast. And in this NINETY-FIFTH episode, Steven and Analise talk all about this sassier than-all-get-out song (“I don’t mean on the phone” anyone?) and muse on questions like...is there Santa smut on Tumblr?       No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/lalalanalise/playlist/67Fo4jdWveOKA7kNKuTqFi?si=e4NMqFxsT3KDNIOZNwsNFQ         Additional Recommendations: Ralph Marterie & His Orchestra - “Dig That Crazy Santa Claus” The Enchanters - “Mambo Santa Mambo” Louis Armstrong, The Commanders - “‘Zat You, Santa Claus?” The Moonglows - “Hey Santa Claus” Ariana Grande - “Santa Tell Me” Judy Garland

POUR YOUR MISERY DOWN. AH, it feels so good to be talking about Garbage’s 1995 hit, “Only Happy When It Rains,” Popettes. In this NINETY-FOURTH episode of Popular Music: The Podcast, Steven will recount the insanely serendipitous way that Garbage came to be a band, how they created the distinct, cacophonous sound of this song, and Analise will tell you about her Garbage tattoo and the TWO times she met her idol, Shirley Ann Manson.   No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/   This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/1239070814/playlist/1k4UPBBjKBI5aUIDZFtQom?si=cGM7uLRKSPKVETA7SgoWmw    Additional Recommendations: Gorillaz - “Last Living Souls” Silversun Pickups - “Kissing Families” Skating Polly - “Hail Mary (feat. Louise Post & Nina Gordon” The Cranberries - “Dre

You. Make. Me. Feel-like-I’m-listening-to. EPISODE NINETY-THREE (of Popular Music: The Podcast), in which Steven and Analise finally cover Katy Perry’s 2010 smash, “Teenage Dream!” You’ll hear about how Katy got her start as a gospel singer who wanted to be Alanis Morissette, as well as why this song just SCREAMS teenage yearning in the chord structure.     No guilt. Only pleasure. Popular Music is a pop music podcast hosted by Steven Ray Morris and Analise Nelson. New episodes every Monday. Email us: popmusicpodcast@gmail.com   Chat pop music with us in our Facebook group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/647416295647220/     This week's Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/1239070814/playlist/4adAQAtcsD6G05G84YWLkp?si=sCxB1WcdRgWgCYmpIhb7eQ         Additional Recommendations: Katy Perry - One of the Boys Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (MTV Unplugged) Katy Perry - Peacock Katy Perry - Circle The Drain Katy Perry - Legendary Lovers Bonnie McKee - Thorns Bonnie McKee - Wasted Youth Bonnie McKee - Easy Kat