Are you ready to go back to the year 2000?
Combining storytelling and commentary, this podcast returns to some of the noughties’ biggest cultural moments, trends and figures, and explores them with the added benefit of twenty years’ hindsight.
The world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Simran Hans and Tara Joshi, two self-proclaimed fangirls who grew up on the internet. Film critic, Simran, and music critic, Tara, explore how it feels to return to the defining songs, shows and sleepover movies of their childhoods, and what they tell us about pop culture today. Special guests will be joining the hosts each month.
Join us on a journey into the new millennium, a period of change and optimism, examining the surprising, funny and poignant parallels between then and now.
Launching 6 October 2020 – new episodes available every Tuesday.
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Are you ready to go back to the year 2000?
Combining storytelling and commentary, this podcast returns to some of the noughties’ biggest cultural moments, trends and figures, and explores them with the added benefit of twenty years’ hindsight.
The world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Simran Hans and Tara Joshi, two self-proclaimed fangirls who grew up on the internet. Film critic, Simran, and music critic, Tara, explore how it feels to return to the defining songs, shows and sleepover movies of their childhoods, and what they tell us about pop culture today. Special guests will be joining the hosts each month.
Join us on a journey into the new millennium, a period of change and optimism, examining the surprising, funny and poignant parallels between then and now.
Launching 6 October 2020 – new episodes available every Tuesday.
High Fidelity: What came first, the music or the misery?
Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast
42 minutes
5 years ago
High Fidelity: What came first, the music or the misery?
“What matters is what you like, not what you are like" or so says Rob Gordon, the protagonist of High Fidelity. In this episode, we look back at the 2000 film starring John Cusack, and ask if there's value in the idea that our favourite songs, films and books reveal who we are. We talk about music snobbery, cultural gatekeeping and the politics of taste in the original film and the 2020 television remake starring Zoë Kravitz.
Films and TV referenced in the episode:
Say Anything (1989)
High Fidelity (2000)
High Fidelity, Hulu (2020)
500 Days of Summer (2009)
Almost Famous (2000)
The OC (2003-2007)
Other links mentioned and clips used in this episode:
6:00 - Opening scene of 500 Days of Summer
10:30 - John Cusack, NYT interview (2020)
17:00 - The Rap Against Rockism, Kelefa Sanneh (2004)
19:40 - Beam Me Up Softboi Instagram account
20:27 - Men Explain Music to Me, Kim Kelly
22:49 - James Acaster, Perfect Sounds, BBC Sounds
33:31 - Janet Jackson, I Get Lonely
38:21 - Fan Girls, Hannah Ewens
38:30 - Jessica Hopper tweet
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Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast
Are you ready to go back to the year 2000?
Combining storytelling and commentary, this podcast returns to some of the noughties’ biggest cultural moments, trends and figures, and explores them with the added benefit of twenty years’ hindsight.
The world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Simran Hans and Tara Joshi, two self-proclaimed fangirls who grew up on the internet. Film critic, Simran, and music critic, Tara, explore how it feels to return to the defining songs, shows and sleepover movies of their childhoods, and what they tell us about pop culture today. Special guests will be joining the hosts each month.
Join us on a journey into the new millennium, a period of change and optimism, examining the surprising, funny and poignant parallels between then and now.
Launching 6 October 2020 – new episodes available every Tuesday.
