Encore: The Stories Behind The Songs You Love
Join Myles Galloway as he takes you through the biggest songs in the world - with new interviews and newly unearthed archive footage from the artists themselves.
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18.09.2025
26 Minuten
There are few artists that truly define ‘pop’ music and
popstardom like one Ariana Grande; One of the most streamed
artists of all time. She is, after all the first female artist to
have no less than 20 songs hit a billion streams a pop.
Needless to say, this streaming success is not the only metric
that defines Ariana Grande’s success - she’s sold an estimated 90
million+ records worldwide, and has been celebrated with: 2
Grammy Awards, A Brit Award, 2 Billboard Music Awards 3
American Music Awards, 13 MTV VMAs (including three this
year) &7 iHeartRadio Music Awards - although technically one
was for her dog Toulouse - but we’ll give it to her.
Obviously - Ari isn’t just a pop star either; her work on the big
screen adaptation of the stage musical Wicked solidified her as a
true Hollywood powerhouse, and of course - she’s historically no
stranger to the Broadway Stage, or the world of Television. So
it’s safe to say… she’s kind of a big deal.
With all these hits it was hard to pick just one! But this week
we look at one of Ariana Grande's most important songs: One Last
Time.
Written by Clayton Taylor for iHeartRadio.
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11.09.2025
34 Minuten
A great pop song can evoke a universal feeling that just about
every listener out there feels. You can make a case for just
about any song and any feeling, but has a song ever encapsulated
the feeling of being a teenager as accurately as the Smashing
Pumpkins’ “1979”?
When he wrote it, at the age of 28 mind you, frontman Billy
Corgan was looking to express what he felt in his adolescence -
all of the angst, pain, fear, excitement, happiness and endless
possibilities you face when you’re a teenager. And he nailed it.
What’s funny is that when it was released in 1995, it sounded
unlike anything else the band had recorded.
This alternative rock band often associated with the grunge scene
and loud guitars, put out a soft, melancholy tune featuring
synthesizers and drum loops. Even funnier is the fact that “1979”
became the biggest song of their career, finding new audiences as
the generations turn. Yes, it’s as popular with Gen-Z and even
Gen Alpha as it is the Gen X that made it a hit in the first
place.
This is the story of The Smashing Pumpkins' 1979 with newly
unearthed footage from the band themselves!
Written by Cam Lindsay for iHeartRadio.
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04.09.2025
27 Minuten
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug - and music is the best carrier
of that magic elixir directly into our brains.
While pretty much any song can be propped up as a totem of days
past - sometimes songs feel specifically engineered to bring us
back to a place and time.
While many songs that we’ve covered over the course of this
podcast distill the feelings high school awkwardness and teenage
angst; (I’m looking at you, Simple Plan and Jimmy Eat World)
there’s no song that declares itself as loudly and proudly as a
nostalgic teenage anthem like the certified grandaddy of them all
- Wheatus’ anthemic ode to lovable Losers everywhere - 2000’s
Teenage Dirtbag.
Written by Clayton Taylor for iHeartRadio.
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28.08.2025
35 Minuten
There is no mistaking Alanis Morisette for anyone else. She is
the one and only Alanis - Can you even think of anyone else out
there named Alanis?
Ms. Morissette also has one of the most recognizable singing
voices of her generation, one that helped her sell more than 33
million copies of her album, Jagged Little Pill.
Only Shania Twain’s Come On Over has sold more
copies than Jagged Little Pill, making it the second best selling
album by any Canadian ever. That list includes Celine Dion,
Drake, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Rush and Nickelback. In fact,
no Canadian male or Canadian band has sold more copies of an
album than Alanis. She is that awesome.
Jagged Little Pill reinvented the female singer-songwriter in pop
music, and gave women the confidence and strength to express
themselves authentically.
Rolling Stone called it “a landmark moment for the music industry
and the soundtrack of a generation.” And it didn’t take long for
that new generation of self-assured female singer-songwriters to
emerge in the wake of Alanis’s success.
This is the story of its massive single Ironic, with newly
unearthed audio from Alanis Morissette herself.
Written by Cam Lindsay for iHeartRadio.
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21.08.2025
27 Minuten
This week on Encore, we're going to talk about a bonafide sleeper
hit of an album, with bonafide sleeper hit singles; a charmingly
upbeat and wholesome record by a guy who surfed his way into our
hearts some 20 years ago; with songs that equally resonate as
much with a trip to the grocery store as a trip to the beach. But
like - in a good way.
I am of course talking about Jack Johnson’s 2005 effort
In Between Dreams - and its heartwarming first
track - Better Together.
Son of surfer Jeff Johnson, Jack’s first love was of course:
surfing. He was an avid surfer by the age of 5 - and by 17, he
was the youngest invitee to make the finals of the lauded
Pipeline Masters event in Hawaii.
Things went sideways for young Jack though, as he was involved in
a serious surfing accident at the very same event; with Johnson
needing over 100 stitches in his forehead and the removal of some
teeth.
Soon after the accident, Jack would trade the surfboard for the
director’s chair, and enrolled himself in film school, as well as
joining a local band called Soil and playing the University of
California, Santa Barbara campus’ party scene.
Ever the polymath; Jack Johnson also successfully put his film
studies degree he earned at USCB to good use by combining his
love of Surfing, Film, and music to direct the surfer-documentary
Thicker Than Water with his pals Chris and
Emmett Malloy in the year 2000.
It was around this time Johnson met stoner-soul-rock-funk
musician G. Love of the band G. Love and Special Sauce. The
fun-loving G. Love met Johnson through his surf-documentary
circles, and invited Jack to collaborate on a song called
Rodeo Clowns.
With his foot now in the door in a variety of artistic circles -
Johnson then caught the attention of travelling bluesman Ben
Harper and his producer JP Plunier. Plunier was a fan of
Johnson’s Demo Tape, and offered to produce his debut album,
eventually titled Brushfire Fairytales and released in February
2001.
Jack Johnson would open for Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
throughout 2001 - and by late 2002, Brushfire Fairytales
officially became his first platinum-selling album.
After a less successful second album - Jack Johnson would hit it
big with his classic third album In Between
Dreams. This is the story of its biggest single,
Better Together.
Written by Clayton Taylor for iHeartRadio.
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Do you remember where you were the first time you heard Outkast
tell you to 'Shake it like a Polaroid Picture'?
How about when Nickelback told you to 'Look at this Photograph'?
Or when Taylor Swift provided the soundtrack to your Love story?
Join Ruby Carr as she takes you through the biggest songs in the
world - with new interviews and newly unearthed archive footage
from the artists themselves.
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