That time our favourite fox dropped a banger and only POP TV seemed to notice.
🧠 The Fuzzy Memory
“Nobody ever believes me when I say Basil Brush released a pop single.” But I remember it. The music, the chaos, the boom boom echoing through the POP TV schedule like a fever dream. Not a full music video. Just the performance segment from the show — snuck in between cartoons, ads for plastic bracelets, and a rerun of something impossibly shiny.
It lives in my head like a VHS tape left on pause: studio lights, kids cheering, Basil in showbiz mode. Peak mid-00s energy.
🎤 Boom Boom: The Banger That Time Forgot
On YouTube now (because of course it is), it’s ridiculous and brilliant in equal measure — backing dancers doing their best, Basil bouncing like he’s headlining the O2, and a chorus that goes harder than it has any right to. Novelty singles used to slap. That’s a hill I will die on.Watch the performance on YouTube Exhibit A: proof that my brain did, in fact, witness this chaotic masterpiece.
📺 POP TV: Raised by Chaos
POP didn’t care about continuity. One minute you were watching Bratz Rock Angelz, the next Basil Brush was belting a chorus like he’d been waiting his whole career for this moment. POP was the channel that threw glitter at the schedule and said, “Yeah, that’ll do.” And honestly? Iconic behaviour.
🕵️♀️ The Mandela 🦊 Effect
Did Basil ever really perform it? Did the channel just splice the segment in? Or have I slipped into a timeline where novelty singles ruled the charts?
I swear I saw it. You probably didn’t. And that’s fine — some memories are ultra-niche, hyper-specific, and ours. That’s the fun of nostalgia: comparing notes and realising we all collected different weird little moments like Pokémon cards.
💿 So… Why Isn’t It on Spotify?
Who knows. Rights tangles, lost masters, label shrugs… somewhere a spreadsheet said “no” and the world was denied its fox-led bop. Justice for “Boom Boom.” Until then, YouTube is the museum where chaotic classics live forever.
Alternate title I didn’t use: Spotify said boom boom no 💅
❤️ The Nostalgic Mic Drop
Maybe this is what nostalgia really is — remembering the things nobody else does. The half-clips, the lost singles, the foxes who sang their hearts out on children’s TV. Boom boom forever.
Did you catch this on POP back in the day? Or do you have your own “I swear this existed” memory? Drop it in the comments — let’s build the museum of tiny, glittery, slightly unhinged TV moments together. ✨
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