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SwagJerryRice  ·  4135 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Twenty-Ninth Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

I am a huge fan of pop culture ephemera, and I have a particular interest in movie tie-ins that time has forgotten. I have discovered a 1998 single called Take Me There, a tie-in to The Rugrats Movie that managed to make it to #14 in the summer of 1998 with the hook from then C-lister Mýa, one of the worst verses I've ever heard from a then-not-retired-and-then-unretired Ma$e, some input from Blackstreet, and someone named Blinky Blink I've never heard of. It's not a good song by any means, but it's still a curious, interesting piece of pop culture history.

Also, there's the tie-in to Dr. Doolittle, the Timbaland-produced Are You That Somebody? by the late, great Aaliyah. It's a meandering, eerie, thoroughly fantastic Timbaland beat before he really got into his groove and started putting up megahits with The Neptunes.