Talk:Music and Lyrics
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Trivia Section[edit]
I know Wikipedia policy is to remove or integrate trivia into the main body but I think it's entirely proper to have it as a seperate section in this instance. The items would dillute the main section but on their own provide for further points of interest. SillyWilly 00:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Inspiration[edit]
When I saw this movie, it struck me how the imaginary band "Pop" was like 2 bands in the 1980's. The actual group seemed to be a reference to Wham!. while their biggest hit seemed to be inspired by Men Without Hats. Everybody knows of George Michael of Wham!, but nobody can remember Andrew Ridgeley. And while Men Without Hats had a popular song and dance called The Safety Dance, they had a lesser known song named Pop Goes the World. I would be interested in knowing how much of an influence these two groups had in the inspiration of Pop!. Mushrom 05:25, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
- I definately agree on Wham ! Not so sure about Men Without Hats, though. -- Beardo 06:40, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- It's probably an amalgam of lots of bands and styles. Hair was always a big issue in the eighties, from Depeche Mode to Flock of Seagulls. The checkered background in the Pop video and logotype points to the craze for black and white interior design at the time. And the new millenium is well represented by a scantily clad ditz selling her spirituality to an underage audience. I guess for legal reasons it will be hard to get any confirmation for the actual musicians that inspired the movie. But you certainly can ascribe Sophie's line about being a hypochondriac to the real life of writer/director Mark Lawrence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.115.45.213 (talk) 10:01, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, the pastiche 1980s pop video is brilliant and can be found on YouTube - even featuring a pretty brunette who is a dead ringer for the young Jennifer Connelly. Is the Cora character (accurately described above as "a scantily clad ditz") not a fairly obvious parody of the likes of Britney and Christina Aguilera, both of whom came to fame in their late teens in 1999? We'd need a source, I guess.Paulturtle (talk) 05:39, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
manfu guy[edit]
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