PoP!
Stuck in my head for days now, is the poppiest of poppy pop songs I’ve ever heard: Pop Goes My heart by PoP! – an eighties hit band from the UK.
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Well, not really. Although I entirely missed the release of the romantic Hugh Grant comedy Music and Lyrics (2007), that is where this tune comes from.
Grant plays a washed-up pop icon who’s being asked to write an overnight hit for a fledgling teen star. You can tell where this is headed.
I could just direct you to the YouTube video, but have a look at this lip dub video which features no one else but social cyborg Kevin Lim from theory.isthereason. Now that’s funny.
That video was funny, but I promise you, the video in the film is priceless. I have never laughed so loud in a cinema as when saw that.
But now I have PoP! in my head now… Grrr.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pmThat the same video as was on YouTube? Because now it seems that's gone.
Oh well, I fully intend to watch the film. Something tells me I shouldn't but will eventually. I suppose that's what Grant-Barrymore can do to you.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:17 am