5 STORIES
2000 · 00S
"Stan" is a four-letter correspondence in which a fan writes himself into a murder-suicide and his hero writes back too late — and it is sec…
2000 · 00S
The most notorious novelty-sounding hit of the year 2000 was actually a late, label-ordered patch job — and underneath the jokes it argues s…
2002 · 00S
DETROIT, USA
The most-used motivational anthem in sport is actually a song about panic — a minute-by-minute anatomy of stage fright and the fear of going…
2002 · 00S
The biggest comeback single of the 2000s is not really a boast about being the best rapper alive — it is an argument that popular culture ne…
2010 · 10S
DETROIT, USA
The biggest comeback single of Eminem's career is really a sobriety letter set to a stadium beat — a man roughly two years clean apologising…