Episodes

Chris and Chantel finally dig into the 2007 album “Tangled Up” - the imperial-phase peak of Girls Aloud and Xenomania. From the electropop of "Call the Shots" and the Nazareth-sampling "Sexy! No No No..." to the smooth-jazz swerve of "Can't Speak French," the reggae oddity "Control of the Knife," an...

SF9 are back with "Without Wings," the Afrobeats-rooted title track from their 10th anniversary album TENACITY, and we're giving it an honest review across the song, the music video, and the performance. We break down whether a breezy summer groove was the right call for a decade-milestone comeback,...

FLO's sophomore album “Therapy at the Club” might be the most slept-on girl group record of the year, and on this episode we're breaking down every single track. This is our full, honest review of “Therapy at the Club”, going song by song from "Side Effects" to "Haterbooth" to figure out if FLO just...

KATSEYE dropped “WILD”, their third EP, and we went track by track for an honest review... and this might be the most critical we have ever been about them. We are rooting for KATSEYE….Biggest group in pop right now, a sold-out world tour, an Ed Sheeran co-write, a lost Charli XCX song reborn, and y...

Dannii Minogue's "Neon Nights" turns 20, and we're finally sitting down with it start to finish. This is our first time listening to the 2003 album in full, and we go track by track through every song for an honest review of what holds up, what got slept on, and whether this really is the lost pop c...

The Pussycat Dolls debut album "PCD" gets the full track by track treatment on CCTV: The Nonstop Pop Show, and the timing could not be bigger. With the PCD Forever reunion tour underway and the group just announcing their first-ever Brazil date in São Paulo, Chris and Chan revisit the 2005 album tha...

The Spice Girls have spent 25 years almost getting back together. In this POP 101 finale, we break down the quiet end of the group, the R&B pivot, the scrapped third album, and “Forever”, the 2000 album that ended their imperial run. Then every reunion since: the 2007 Return of the Spice Girls tour,...

The Spice Girls were the biggest band on the planet in 1997, and it nearly destroyed them. In Part 2 of our POP 101 deep dive, we break down the Spiceworld era from top to bottom: the movie, the album they wrote while filming it, the sponsorship empire, firing Simon Fuller at their absolute peak, th...

The Spice Girls story starts here. In Part 1 of our POP 101 deep dive, we break down how five strangers who answered a newspaper ad became the biggest pop group on the planet, from the Heart Management auditions and the "Touch" era all the way through their debut album “Spice” and the “Wannabe” expl...