What does "in the spirit of Serial" even mean in this context, other than "good podcast"?

I'd say this is less of a "cover" and more of a "nightmarish comedy remix". Though I can see why that wouldn't work for a headline.

I mean, they're talking about the trailer here.

As long as Pizzolatto's fetish for Thomas Ligotti references is back again so am I.

I guess the question of "what's going to make people watch an Avatar movie in 2020" might've just been answered?
I mean, yes, absolutely feel free to snark about there being another one of these, but the major hurdle to this not seeming like a stupid idea was that the first Avatar got where it was as a result of being…

This movie did well enough to merit a sequel?

I believe this is a reference to an actual club in Paris called the "Silencio" that Lynch owns, and where the black-and-white sequences might have been filmed.

I remember liking the occasional part of the movie but mostly being annoyed at the main characters discussing the main theme of "people turn bad in desperate situations!!" in a thuddingly obvious manner - seriously, less like they were refugees of a supernatural disaster than anthropologists watching everybody else go…

The first thing I thought when I saw this story was "it's just going to be the 'Shooting Stars' meme, isn't it".

Actually the hook from one of those other charting hits, "Out Of My Head", was recently the basis for a really successful Machine Gun Kelly song.
I mean, it wasn't good, but it charted high, which should probably get Fastball out of the one-hit camp officially.

I'd actually kinda like to see #56.

If the question is about songs moreso than acts that I'm willing to stand up for, it's got to be "Show Me Love" by Robin S. Her career went nowhere, and the album that followed the hit was mostly boring palette swaps of "Show Me Love" along with failed attempts at various other things Robin might theoretically be good…

That Andy White was a really talented drummer. Glad he still ended up going places after that.

Love the drums on this one. Really sets it apart from the spree of other 80's New Wave one-hits. Plus that title can't be beat.

"Hyperactive" is great. I don't know if it would've been better if it had ended up going to Michael Jackson like Dolby originally planned, which is a compliment unto itself.
Although really it might all hang on whether it still ended up having Adele Bertei doing her best impression of Jackson 5-era Michael in the…

*in extremely Andrew Dice Clay voice*: Oh!

That Korgis song is straight-up one of the most beautiful ever written.
Incidentally it's probably also got my favorite revved-up happy hardcore version from the 90's "turn every pop song ever into a rave track" craze:
https://youtu.be/K1qF5U12MFo

I love the interlude in the extended version where the girl Mark Morrison's been singing to breathily berates him for insulting her in his hit song.

Worth noting that one of the Weather Girls, Martha Wash, went on to record vocals for numerous 90's house acts, including one-hit wonders like C+C Music Factory ("everybody dance now!") and Black Box (tho again, "one hit" might only be in retrospect there).
And in fact she had to take legal action to have her…

And, in my opinion, was probably a better song. That guitar hook!