Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Flip It and Reverse It Part 1
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🗓️ 21 May 2022
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Summary
What was in the water in Virginia Beach? Starting in the ’90s and peaking in the ’00s, Pharrell Williams, Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley and Missy Elliott—friends and family from the Tidewater Region—made nerdy pop normal on the charts. Their productions whirred, gurgled, pinged and rumbled—the handiwork of studio geeks—while their lyrics embraced the freaky: Missy demanding that you work it…Pharrell declaring he’s a hustler, baby…Timbaland bringing sexy back.
Join host Chris Molanphy as he explains how these three supa-dupa fly Virginia Beach geniuses helped us get our freak on. For over two decades, they never left you without a dope beat to step to.
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| 0:03.3 | Hey there, hit parade listeners. |
| 0:06.2 | What you're about to hear is part one of this episode. |
| 0:10.6 | Part two will arrive in your podcast feed at the end of the month. |
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| 0:59.3 | Thanks. And now, please enjoy part one of this hit parade episode. |
| 1:05.4 | It's just testing. |
| 1:07.7 | Feel good, right? |
| 1:24.3 | Listen. Listen. Welcome to hit part Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine. |
| 1:26.8 | About the hits from coast to coast. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, |
| 1:37.7 | and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series? On today's show, 20 years ago, in the summer of 2002, major label Jive Records, was setting up the debut album from a very high-priority new solo artist, |
| 1:47.5 | who had just emerged from a blockbuster boy band. And they needed to give this young man, |
| 1:54.3 | Justin Timberlake, his own bespoke adult sound. For the first single, they went with a track that had the vibe of a young Michael Jackson. |
| 2:04.1 | But the song, Like I Love You, was much quirkier than that, as if a lush 80s Jackson song |
| 2:13.4 | had been deconstructed and stripped for parts. |
| 2:26.2 | No. had been deconstructed and stripped for parts. This skeletal song's masterminds were from Virginia Beach, Virginia, a pair who called themselves |
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