For our eighteenth episode, Jon & Harrison welcome a guest to discuss an album for the first time. Matt Latham, host of the Pick A Disc podcast on the We Made This network, joins us to discuss Girls Aloud and their 2005 album Chemistry. Our discussion ran very long, so we cut it into two parts, each about 40 minutes, for your easier digestion. For the course of this first half, We discuss:

• The massive cultural differences between the US and the UK, and how none of us know whether any particular piece of culture is known in the other country
• The history of British reality TV that created Girls Aloud
• Brian Higgins and his songwriting team Xenomania
• The British tradition of following the annual quest for the Christmas Day #1 single
• The coded lyrics of "Models"
• The insane structure of "Wild Horses

Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!

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