Pop Could Never Save Us and it’s the same but there’s different songs so it’s not

Holly and James are back and can you guess, guess, guess the song they talk about most this time out?

Taking in another diverse set of the highest ranking new entries in the UK Charts, your favourite popcasters catch you up on the wheelings and dealings of up to the minute modern culture and the fact that it might actually still be getting slightly better in some ways.

Hear! Holly find fascinating depths in an apparently entirely superficial song with Charli XCX & Billie Eilish. Listen! As a resentful James is forced to begrudgingly concede that the track succeeded in playing him like a xylophone.

Also: take the chance to check in with Chappell Roan’s song about compulsory heterosexuality, Myles Smith’s filling some silence for a time, Dasha’s musical theatre take on country ‘n’ western, and the obligatory dance entry.

With! Added ‘NSYNC and Bruce Springsteen, cuddling up, as they always should have been like two Marvel superheroes on an adventure to wring everything possible out of flatlining IP, in the retro entries.

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