The Curious Return of 2000s Music

Culture Study Podcast

Anne Helen Petersen

Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Arts

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

At some point in the last year I looked around and realized… 2000s music was EVERYWHERE. Nelly Furtado. Timbaland. Eminem. 50 Cent. MGMT. In Bama Rush videos. At sports games. In the background of TikToks of teens plaintively yearning to be 2000s teens. In weird animation videos meant for seven-year-old boys. Why THIS music, and why RIGHT NOW? Musicologist Nate Sloan— co-host of one of my favorite podcasts, Switched on Pop— has all the answers, or at least most of them.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Anne.
0:02.7	We're making today's full episode totally free for everyone.
0:06.8	You'll get the bonus segment to ask Anne anything and a very fun set of show notes
0:11.1	that should send you down a real rabbit hole or memory lane depending on when you were born.
0:17.3	If you want to join the ranks of paid subscribers so you always get the the full episode, head to culturestudepod.substack.com.
0:25.7	Okay, on with the show.
0:29.5	Okay, I'm sending the chat, and I've watched this many times, so I'm mostly like just eager to watch your reaction.
0:37.6	So whenever you are ready. I'm mostly like just eager to watch your reaction. So whenever you are ready.
0:40.6	I'm watching the film.
0:42.3	Film is a great way to put it.
0:44.1	And if you can describe it for us as you're watching it, that would be amazing.
0:52.0	Okay, it's like a crude animation of a bathroom, a men's bathroom, because they're urinals,
1:00.8	and inside the urinals are a man's face, singing a song, popping out of the urinal, singing
1:08.2	together.
1:09.7	Now we're on the street.
1:12.1	There's a giant toilet.
1:13.8	There's so many toilets.
1:15.2	Sort of looming over the city, right, flanked by smaller toilets, all with the man's head
1:21.6	inside of it.
1:22.9	Oh my God, it's like, it's getting progressively stranger.
1:26.5	The faces are sort of melting.
1:30.7	The toilet is getting bigger.
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