Tag: 2000s
131: “This Must Be Pop” – *NSYNC
Following the breakout success of the Backstreet Boys in the mid-to-late 90s, a wave of warbling wannabes took to the airwaves, all vying for coveted poster space on the walls of teenagers across the globe. For many 90s kids, the latter half of the decade is best remembered as a hunky blur of chiseled abs,…
130: “Oh My God, We’re Back Again” – Backstreet Boys
Are they original? Not a bit. Are they the only one? Certainly not. Are they sexual? Well, that’s up for debate! The When We Were Young podcast dives into all these questions and more as we discuss the Backstreet Boys, pioneers in the bubblegum pop craze that was larger than life in the late 1990s…
129: “I Guess I’m A Pretty Sick Guy” – American Psycho
New Year, new you? Who better to turn to for inspiration than a good-looking, well-educated, wealthy New York City investment banker with a razor sharp wit and killer taste in music? Patrick Bateman has a flawless skin care routine, does one thousand crunches per day, stays up to date on the latest in fashion and…
92: “You’ll Be Dumb With Wonderment” – Moulin Rouge!
If ever a movie earned its exclamation point, it’s MOULIN ROUGE! In Part 2 of our Baz Luhrmann Spectacular Spectacular, we revisit the scintillating (and over-stimulating) 2001 musical that saw the likes of Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor belting out pop music’s greatest love songs. Though the film earned several Oscar nominations (and two wins),…
84: “In the End It’s All Nice” – Requiem For A Dream
As if 2020 couldn’t get any more dismal, we sat down to rewatch Darren Aronofsky’s REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, a movie so depressing that many of its viewers refuse to ever watch it again. Released in the year 2000 to positive reviews and horrified audiences, Aronofsky’s film about drug addiction and the depths people will…