This Must Be Pop

PART 2 OF 2. Ana & Ceci are joined by friend Teena to break down the music and cultural influence of *NSYNC. In this episode, we discuss their albums "No Strings Attached", "Celebrity" and some of the songs from the "On the Line" soundtrack. *Warning: This episode leans VERY heavily on the musical abilities of JC Chasez, and also gives a lot of credit to the talents of Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bas...

PART 1 OF 2. Ana & Ceci are joined by friend Teena to break down the music and cultural influence of *NSYNC (Ana's favorite boyband). We start off discussing our *NSYNC origin stories as well as other pivotal moments in our lives associated with them; seeing them in concert,  waiting in line for their CDs, and watching their TV concert specials. We then do a deep dive into their self-titled 1998 a...

Ana interviews Erik Didriksen. Erik is a musician, songwriter and author of the book "Pop Sonnets", a book where he takes modern pop songs and reimagines them as Shakespearean sonnets. Erik recites three of his sonnets converted from the following songs:  "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys "Bye Bye Bye" by *NSYNC "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction.  Ana and Erik analyze the lyric...

This Must Be Pop! Today's debut episode is dedicated to discussing our backgrounds and music journeys in relation to boybands and pop artists. We also talk about how pop music and boyband music guided us through our adolescence and teenage years as well as the societal stigma felt when liking a boyband. Check out our Spotify Playlist of songs we discussed during this episode:https://open.spoti...

SPECIAL PREVIEW EPISODE Every decade spawns male vocal groups (i.e. "boybands") who capture the hearts and minds of their teen and pre-teen fans. This episode is setting the stage of our podcast by defining: What "pop music" means What a "boyband" means The history of boybands We also take the time to discuss what truly defines a boyband; why they are overlooked and why their cultural and societal...