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aimmyarrowshigh · 8 months ago

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I don’t have any idea what you’re referring to with your 2001 bubblegum pop post BUT I genuinely unironically think you’re so cool for knowing so much about that era! Every time it comes up I get jealous of how knowledgeable and passionate you are.

LOL it's purposely incomprehensible. I just saw a Bad Take and was compelled by obsession to be angry about it in a vague way.

HOWEVER, I have to say! 2001 teenipop/bubblegum pop is an amazing genre and it's super fun to get into, at least on a surface level (listening to it and jamming out)!*

*Don't necessarily dig under the Y2K chrome surfaces, though, because like anything having to do with the entertainment industry prior to #metoo and especially regarding child- and teen stars, it gets... so depressing so fast.

**BUT YOU CAN IGNORE THAT PART WHILE CHEWING ON SOME TASTY SWEDISH-INFLUENCED BEATS AND YOU SHOULD!

And I like to pride myself on being Extremely Learnèd in its glittery pink ways, but I will only ever be but a humble student of the two true masters of the genre: Tommy2 Ramirez (although he's stopped popblogging and started, ugh, runner-blogging, RIP t2.net the GOAT) and Mariel Talks Pop.

(I am prolly the 3rd highest ranking sorcerer of teenipop, though. Just saying. But Mariel is the Sorcerer Supreme and Tommy2 is the Wong.)

Mariel is basically the sole reason that 90% of teenipop/2001-era bubblegum pop albums and music videos have survived the physical to digital media transition. She ran a blogspot for years in the Dark Days of the Mid-Aughts and Early-Tennies where she doggedly wrote bios and uploaded full album rips with metadata of every album whose label had died before the big digital push and thus have never been made available on YouTube, Spotify, or iTunes. She is truly a godsend. She doesn't do that anymore and a lot of the links have gone down as sharing sites have been taken offline, but the bios alone are doing the lions' share of keeping ANY record of a LOT of bubblegum pop artists. She also focuses way more on the full global contingent of pop than I ever have, so I get to discover new-defunct artists through her page(s) all the time, too!

And Tommy2.net was like. The Rolling Stone of bubblegum pop. I wrote for it for a while after college and got to do some fun interviews and get some show screeners (like Glee). The fact that it is now offline makes me genuinely really sad, especially because it existed for so long before tagging posts was a thing that websites could do, so even if it gets pulled up on the Wayback Machine, it is fucking impossible to navigate easily. I wish that it could have transitioned to an archive, but I get that hosting that much media for the four weirdos who ever are like, "Wait, I need to know exactly what pureNRG said in that interview in 2007!!!" (aka Me, Mariel, and like, two bots probably?) wasn't feasible.

Anyway, all that to say, archival fans are so important and I love them forever.

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imetyouonljpodcast · 4 years ago

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Episode #026: The Skeptic & The Believer

We’ve connected the dots, and we want to believe! Join Maggie and V as they explore the spooky world of opposites-attract pairings with The X Files and Buzzfeed Unsolved. They discuss the ancient etymology of some key fannish phrases, search out the elusive Tol & Smol, and invoke a cursed quiz to find out whether they are A Ryan or A Shane. Plus, V has an out-there theory about OTPs, and Maggie finally watched The Mandalorian! And… what’s that eerie sound that definitely is not whistling?

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