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  1. Our group declare to be true @[email protected] ·
    CW: Sugababes - "About you now" (Now! 68)

    #NowPop40 meets #Uncool50's Eleven Points.

    Through all their incarnations, the Sugababes were pop gold. For me, this is their crowning moment of awesome, written by Cathy Dennis but Dr Luke.

    For the video, the girl gang spend an evening on the South Bank, while some fit bloke makes a beeline for them.

    For the song, it's fizz and crackle and buzz and tension and intensity, and it all resolves in the most glorious keychange of joy.

    youtube.com/watch?v=RPo8XJgoqm

    #uncool50 #nowpop40
  2. Our group declare to be true @[email protected] ·
    CW: Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn" (Now! 39)

    The #NowPop40 #Uncool50 section begins with *the* greatest emo ballad of all time.

    Ednaswap wrote the song, they were a post-grunge band who found a home in tired/regretful/annoyed songs from the heart. Basically, emo before anyone had invented emo.

    In the video, #NatalieImbruglia holds it together while living the lyric, all while filming the video. It's all very meta-textual.

    The song still sounds fresh and vital.
    youtube.com/watch?v=xSZBIs0gs0

    #natalieimbruglia #uncool50 #nowpop40