Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast
By Message Heard
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.
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.
Latest episode
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Award Season: The best pop culture of the year 2000
Award Season is a highlight of the pop culture calendar. From MTV’s Video Music Awards in September through to the Academy Awards in March, we are treated to nearly six months of red carpet looks, tearful acceptance speeches and, if we’re lucky, a he… -
Gilmore Girls: A roundtable with Anna Leszkiewicz and Zarina Muhammad
This week we’re hosting a special roundtable on everyone’s favourite mother-daughter duo, The Gilmore Girls. We’re joined by critic Zarina Muhammad, who is one half of art collective The White Pube, and Anna Leszkiewicz, Culture Editor at the New Sta… -
Soundtracks: Coyote Ugly and the lost art of the movie single
Pure Shores by All Saints. Independent Women by Destiny’s Child. Can’t Fight the Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes. These chart-topping tracks are some of the year 2000’s most memorable pop hits — but none of them would exist if it weren’t for movies. Designe… -
The Sims: The enduring appeal of the second life simulator
Twenty years after it first launched, The Sims is still going strong. Much more than a nostalgic relic of the noughties, the game has a thriving community of fans. In this episode, Tara, a longtime player of the game, explains it’s enduring appeal to… -
Craig David: Born to do it?
When Southampton teenager Craig David arrived into the mainstream with the help of production duo Artful Dodger in 1999, many considered him a poster boy for UK Garage. In his own work, he melded that 2-step sound with crooning R&B and even Spanish g… -
White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut
The new millennium brought with it a fresh wave of optimism and excitement for the future. Zadie Smith's best selling debut novel White Teeth embodied this mood and symbolised a changing of the guard. Smith was lauded with critical acclaim and lavish… -
Reality TV: Big Brother, Faking It and a new kind of fame
The year 2000 saw the launch of two new reality TV shows. Big Brother made instant celebritiesof ordinary people and was deemed the most addictive show on telly. Faking It won two BAFTAs and took home an International Emmy, but remains a cult hit.In … -
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 … -
The rocky road to the definitive Destiny’s Child line-up
Kelly can you handle this? Michelle can you handle this? Beyonce can you handle this? It’s a roll call so iconic, it’s easy to forget this wasn’t Destiny Child’s original line-up. Nearly a decade after the band was formed under a different name, it w… -
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Are you ready to back to the year 2000? Join two culture critics in their twenties, as they delve into the most memorable pop culture from twenty years ago.In this new podcast from Message Heard, the world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Sim…
