30 Pop

It's all about love, sex, and money; it always has been and always will be. Episode 30 of "Press Play" pays homage to the way the world goes 'round with the latest crop of chart-toppers. There's a few gems in here for you; a new mix of a song that had no less than six videos when it first came out -- one of which was actually banned by MTV -- by Frankie Goes to Hollywood; the return of Janet ("Miss Jackson, if you're nasty!"); the re-emergence of a genuine pop Diva, Whitney Houston; a drop from my favorite pop group, the Pet Shop Boys, who are still at it and at the top of their game 25 years later; a song extolling the virtues of threesomes (as if I haven't been telling everyone about that for 10 years) by Britney; and the return of the "Days Gone By" (you know, the one from that Mitsubishi commercial) guys, Dirty Vegas, with their new song remixed by my favorite Trance artists, Above and Beyond. With all this mainstream goodness, it just seemed right to call it "30 Pop."