Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Music Trivia: The Christmas Music Edition
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🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Think you know music? Quiz yourself with the latest episode of Hit Parade: The Bridge.
This month, Host Chris Molanphy is joined by Jessica Goldstein, the culture editor at ThinkProgress and a journalist whose work has appeared in Vulture and The Washington Post, among other places. Her October article in Entertainment Weekly, “Britney Spears wanted to be a star: An oral history of '...Baby One More Time,'” was an inspiration for the November episode of Hit Parade.
Chris is also joined by one listener contestant to play some music trivia, which is all about holiday music.
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Podcast production by T. J. Raphael. Additional support for this episode comes from Danielle Hewitt and Merritt Jacob.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:11.4 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:12.7 | This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Chart History. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to The Bridge. |
| 0:19.6 | Oh, it's a beautiful life. Oh, oh, oh, it's of Pop Chart History. Welcome to The Bridge. |
| 0:31.6 | That's Beautiful Life, a 195 hit single by Swedish pop group Ace of Bass, taken from their second album, |
| 0:39.1 | called, appropriately enough, |
| 0:44.3 | The Bridge. We're playing this song to close the book on our last hit parade episode, |
| 0:50.6 | which was about late 90s teen pop and the Swedish craftsmen who were behind the Britney Spears, |
| 0:56.4 | Backstreet Boys, Insink, and Robin, you recall from the MTV TRL days. |
| 1:00.6 | Ace of Bass were a precursor to that whole teen pop wave. |
| 1:07.5 | Beautiful Life was the first American Top 40 hit for producer, songwriter, and pop mastermind, Max Martin. |
| 1:10.1 | He would go on to score dozens more. |
| 1:13.7 | This relentlessly chipper song would serve as a bridge between the early 90s era of grunge and gangster rap and the late 90s era of boy bands and |
| 1:20.2 | bling-bling. And as always, these mini episodes bridge our full-length monthly episodes and |
| 1:25.2 | give us a chance to catch up with listeners and enjoy some trivia. |
| 1:29.0 | This month, we have a very special guest. |
| 1:31.7 | Jessica Goldstein is the culture editor at Think Progress and a journalist whose work has appeared in Vulture and the Washington Post, among other places. |
| 1:41.0 | Her October article for Entertainment Weekly, Britney Spears wanted to be a star, |
| 1:46.6 | an oral history of Baby One More Time, was an inspiration for my November episode of Hit Parade. |
| 1:52.9 | Jessica even interviewed me for the piece, and I am now returning the favor by having her on |
| 1:57.5 | our December episode of Hit Parade The Bridge. Hello, Jessica. Hello. So Jessica, |
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