135. Black & Blue Album review with When They Popped
Nostalgia & Now
Kelli Williams
4.8 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week Kelli is joined by Mary and Kelsey from the podcast When They Popped! They show you the shape of their heart with a full track by track dive into Black & Blue, breaking down one of the best selling albums of the 2000s. From the undeniable pull of The Call to the emotional highs that still hit just as hard today, your hosts are all in on this one. So quit playin’ games and hit play… because the answer to why this album still matters might be callin’ your name.
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| 0:00.0 | You're gonna dance like it's 2005. Come on, get up. |
| 0:04.8 | What a time to feel. |
| 0:07.2 | Talking nostalgia now, the biggest fan in the crowd. |
| 0:11.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:12.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the gonna be itch. |
| 0:17.0 | You guys, welcome to another episode of nostalgia in now. |
| 0:20.0 | As always, it's me, Kelly Williams, |
| 0:22.0 | and I am joined by two of my favorite internet friends, if I'm being honest, Mary and Kelsey |
| 0:26.9 | from when they popped. If you guys haven't checked out their podcast, you simply have to. |
| 0:31.7 | They've had Clay Aiken on. They've had Cheyenne Kimball on. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. They're so amazing. So if you haven't listened, make sure to check them out. But Mary and Kelsey, thank you so much for coming on the pod. Wow. Honored to be two of your favorite internet friends. What a title. I know. Oh, my gosh. If I meet people who I can truly, like, fan out with, it's a different kind of |
| 0:55.5 | connection. That means so much to us, because that is our whole thing, being fan girls and being |
| 1:00.6 | unashamed of embracing that inner fan girl into our mid-30s. It's beautiful. When they popped |
| 1:08.6 | is that. So make sure to listen to it, everybody. So we'll start |
| 1:12.5 | with Mary. Mary, we are covering black and blue. What is your relationship to this album? Do you |
| 1:18.5 | remember when it came out? Anything like that? I remember having a distinct and newfound interest |
| 1:25.0 | in leather and dark, just seemingly out of nowhere to my poor |
| 1:31.4 | parents. No, I just felt like this was their Britney moment from going to like a girl to a woman. |
| 1:41.2 | This was like them going from boys to men. These were some grown-ass men now, |
| 1:47.3 | even though we all know they were like what in their early 20s, like they were still babies. But |
| 1:51.6 | to me, they just, this was them growing up and taking their sound in a different-ish direction. |
| 1:59.5 | Did you get to go to the tour at all? I didn't, but I know Kelsey has a good story about this tour. First of all, this album, like all of us, it felt like it came so soon after Millennium. So I was like, hell yeah, like keep it coming. Like, I thought that was normal for fans to get a new album. Like, what was it, like six |
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