Encore: The Stories Behind The Songs You Love

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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. Subscribe on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts!

  1. 5d ago

    BONUS: Peter Peter and Scotty Taylor Talk the Music of 'Heated Rivalry'!

    Thank you for listening to this special season of Encore! Peter Peter & Scotty Taylor sit down with iHeartRadio Canada’s Ruby Carr to talk about the music choices in “Heated Rivalry” & if they will be taking part of season 2. Peter Peter and Scotty Taylor talk about what makes the soundtrack really special and how it adds to the magic of the show. Peter Peter walks Ruby through the creation of “It's You”. They share more about their experience working with Jacob Tierney and if they ever had any creative diffrences. Peter Peter speaks about the decision he made with Jacob Tierney to not have lots of music in episode 6. Peter Peter and Scotty Taylor uncover whether or not they will be taking part of “Heated Rivalry” Season 2. Scotty talks about how he would get clearance for ‘Mozart Requiem’ following Jacob Tierney's announcement. He also shares if Sienna Spiro is possibly on their radar after the fan edits to her songs.

  2. Jul 24

    HEATED RIVALRY Encore: The True Story of t.A.T.u's 'All The Things She Said' & Harrison Remix

    Welcome to a special HEATED RIVALRY Edition of Encore, where we celebrate the most popular songs featured in the hit CRAVE Original Series! This week - we’ve got the story behind ANOTHER one of the most beloved songs to feature in the series - TATU’S 2002 Hit ‘All The Things She Said’ and it’s modern reimagining by Harrison!  A bit of viewer discretion off the top - the story of this song is quite the dark one, with twists and turns and controversy that has seen the track become mired in urban legend long before Heated Rivalry foisted it into the spotlight in its fourth episode. And we’re going to talk about all of it so buckle up...  #tatu #allthethingsshesaid #harrison #jacobtierney #heatedrivalry ______________________ Written by Clayton Taylor for iHeartRadio t.A.T.u 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane Album CoverInterscope Departure Festival Panel FootageCourtesy Departure Festival 2026 “Why Did I Choose This Image?…”  Ivan Shapovalov - As Reported by The Daily Mail - 2003 "We Love Each Other..."Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina - As Reported by The Daily Mail - 2003 "It was great. We all were excited and trying to do our best..." , "Yes, we were not only supporting LBGT"Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova - muumuse - 2012 "For Many The Group’s Hit Single…" Lio Min - Them - 2022 "Our First Video was about Love between 2 girls"Lena Katina - Billboard - 2005  God Created Man…Yulia Volkova - As Reported by PinkNews.com - 2014 I Want to Say So Much to You Today…Yulia Volkova - TPK Kontinent St. Petersburg, 2015 Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZTT -  Trevor Horn, Nine Eight Books 2022

    HEATED RIVALRY Encore: The True Story of t.A.T.u's 'All The Things She Said' & Harrison Remix

  3. Jul 17

    HEATED RIVALRY Encore: The Story Behind Wolf Parade's 'I'll Believe in Anything'

    Welcome to a special Heated Rivalry edition of Encore, where we take you behind the songs you love from the show you love more than just about anything. This week we look at Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe In Anything,” a song that has become a hit 20-plus years after its original release. In case you’re one of the many Heated Rivalry fans who discovered Wolf Parade through that HUGE MOMENT that occurs in the INCOMPARABLE episode 5, I’m here to tell you all about how they went from starting the band in a small Montreal apartment to being featured on the soundtrack of the TV series everyone has been talking about. #HeatedRivalry #WolfParade #jacobtierney  ______________________ Credits: Written by Cam Lindsay for iHeartRadio Wolf Parade Album Covers:At Mount ZoomerExpo 86Cry Cry CryThin MindCourtesy Sub Pop Records MUCH Interview with Isaac BrockCourtesy MUCH/Bell Media Departure Festival Panel FootageCourtesy Departure Festival 2026 Featuring Quotes from:Spencer Krug - Exclaim! Magazine March 2025Spencer Krug - Billboard Magazine April 2025Spencer Krug - The Globe & Mail December 2025Dan Boeckner - Pitchfork December 2005Hadji Bakara - Exclaim! Magazine September 2025Hadji Bakara - Ice Cream Man January 2006 Featuring Reviews fromThe Guardian - October 2005Alternative Press - November 2005Pitchfork - September, December 2005

    HEATED RIVALRY Encore: The Story Behind Wolf Parade's 'I'll Believe in Anything'

  4. Jul 10

    HEATED RIVALRY Encore: The Story Behind Feist's 'My Moon My Man' and SeaLion

    Welcome to a special HEATED RIVALRY Edition of Encore, where we celebrate the most popular songs featured in the hit CRAVE Original Series! This week - we’ve got the story behind one of the most beloved songs in the series - Feist’s 2007 banger ‘My Moon My Man’ While the song has certainly taken the world by storm thanks to the pivotal and LONG scene in Episode 4 of Heated Rivalry, every Millennial on the planet knows that My Moon My Man is not the first time a perfectly-positioned Feist song has entered the worldwide zeitgeist. Written by Clayton Taylor for iHeartRadio.

    HEATED RIVALRY Encore: The Story Behind Feist's 'My Moon My Man' and SeaLion

  5. 11/27/2025

    CanConCore 4: The Story of soulDecision's 'Faded'

    Formed in Vancouver by Trevor Guthrie, David Bowman and Ken Lewko, Indecision would sign with Universal Music and rebrand themselves as soulDecsion (lowercase S, uppercase D) in 1999 as to avoid conflict with an American band who had already squatted on the name. Styled and Marketed as a boyband for their year 2000 debut album ‘No One Does it Better’ soulDecision were absolutely not one when it came to their sound, or their overall musical ethos. This is the story of their massive hit 'Faded' with newly unearthed audio from the band themselves. Written by Clayton Taylor for iHeartRadio

    CanConCore 4: The Story of soulDecision's 'Faded'

  6. 11/20/2025

    CanConCore 3: The Story of Sugar Jones' 'Days Like That'

    Do you remember when days were like that? More specifically, do you remember Sugar Jones and their song “Days Like That”? If not, well, you are forgiven. Sugar Jones only existed for a couple years at the beginning of the millennium. But in that short stint they dropped what is widely considered an unforgettable, stone cold, Canadian R&B-pop classic.  Written by Cam Lindsay for iHeartRadio.

    CanConCore 3: The Story of Sugar Jones' 'Days Like That'

  7. 11/13/2025

    CanConCore 2: The Story of Bran Van 3000's 'Drinking In LA'

    Last week on Encore - the CanConCore special edition - we focused on an absolutely absurd teeny-bopper anthem from the year 2000 - and a real crown jewel of obscure Canadian Pop Music - B4-4’s ‘Get Down’.  While it was a wild and wacky song (and video) in its own right - nobody would be rushing to defend it as ‘groundbreaking’ - the three super-tanned members of the group were very clearly chasing the sound of the boyband craze of the late 90s in to early 2000s that was just about to reach its peak. This week, we’re pulling a full 180 to talk about a song that upon its release in 1997, sounded nothing like anything on the radio waves in that era of music - and quite frankly, still sounds nothing like anything but… itself. While both super weird in hindsight - there couldn’t be anything more diametrically opposed to the sound of Get Down than this week’s hit: Bran Van 3000’s Drinking in LA. Written by Clayton Taylor for iHeartRadio.

    CanConCore 2: The Story of Bran Van 3000's 'Drinking In LA'

  8. 11/06/2025

    CanConCore 1: The Story of B4-4's 'Get Down'

    Welcome to a special episode of Encore where we take a look at some of the iHeartRadio team’s favourite Canadian songs that you may have forgotten about. We’re calling it CanConCore… get it?  This week we have the story of B4-4’s “Get Down”! Remember the year 2000? If we weren’t worried about Y2K and the millennium bug bringing on the collapse of society we were likely just sitting in our rooms listening to all of the great boy bands that were topping the charts. Because 2000 was the year boy bands reigned supreme. *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, Westlife, O-Town… They were everywhere. And while it’s fair to say that most boy bands came from either the United States or the United Kingdom, I’d like to think Canada had a very memorable boy band of its own.  This is the story of B4-4's 'Get Down' with newly unearthed footage from the band themselves. Written by Cam Lindsay for iHeartRadio.

    CanConCore 1: The Story of B4-4's 'Get Down'
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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. Subscribe on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts!

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