She was EVERYWHERE in the early 00s. ALL YOU WANTED was for her song to come on the radio. Yes, I’m making Michelle Branch puns bc my good friend Mary from When They Popped joins me this week to walk through Michelle Branch’s career as she pivots from pop to rock, soft rock, pop, and country. Michelle might write a lot of songs about love, but her most toxic relationship was with her label. Welcome to True Cost of Fame: Michelle Branch.

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Blonde bombshell, southern belle, ditzy tuna connoisseur, and powerhouse belter. Jessica Simpson has been called everything in the book (and then wrote her own)! Lia (ashleeandjessicast) and I take a look through Jessica's career start all the way to her releasing NEW music. We discuss the image she was forced to portray and her constant struggle for authenticity in the Britney-era and beyond. This episode was recorded before Jessica released new music and I am a HUGE fan of Use My Heart Against Me!

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True Cost of Fame: Samantha Mumba

S4E1 is officially live, and I'm joined by friend of the pod, Zach Rickel, host of Homophonic and curator of the @afunctioninggay social pages, to discuss what happened to Samantha Mumba! Primed to be a hard-hitting peer of Britney Spears and other teen pop acts, she had so much momentum that seemingly disappeared overnight. What happened?

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