Pom Pom Squad's remake of Nada Surf's 'Popular' video is the high-school satire of the year. Singer-guitarist Mia Berrin tells us how she put a new twist on an alt-rock classic
The result is a shot-for-shot remake of the “Popular” video — which, yes, features Berrin in every main role, from the cheerleader to the football star to the teacher dishing out dubious advice like “Being attractive is the most important thing there is” — and a new cover of the song with Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws on backing vocals.
Pom Pom Squad and Nada Surf share a European label, City Slang, and this fall the two bands got to know each other when they toured the U.S. together. “Mia is an incredible writer,” Caws says in an email to.
Berrin puts her own basement-queen spin on Pom Pom Squad’s cover, which she recorded with her bandmates Alex Mercuri on lead and bass guitar and Shelby Keller on drums. For the video, Pom Pom Squad returned to the same high school in Bayonne, New Jersey, where the 1996 clip was filmed, enlisting some current students to play the other football players and cheerleaders. “I asked them, ‘Did you watch the original video?’” Berrin says. “One of them said she did. I asked what she thought. She said, ‘It was cool, actually!’”
Remaking “Popular” felt like a fitting way for Berrin to celebrate everything she’s done in the past year, from releasing a full-length debut to touring for the first time — and to close that chapter with an exclamation point. “I decided in the moment that it’s going to be the last video we ever do on a football field,” she says. “It’s kind of funny: I didn’t really seeas being about high school at all.
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