This could be a case for Mulder & Scully

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"Mulder and Scully" was Catatonia's second single released from their second album, International Velvet on 19 January 1998. The band were on the verge of breaking up when they found success, and this song perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the time, without it feeling corny and forced, and catapulted them, and especially singer Cery Matthews into the limelight.


It's hard to picture now how big a deal the X-Files was in 1998. But for reference, it is not the only song mentioning the show released that year. "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies also references The X-Files in the lyrics;

"Watchin' X-Files with no lights on
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one."

Cerys Matthews though,  admitted that she was not really a fan of the show, but that she only used the line because it epitomised the strange kind of relationship she was singing about. In an interview with the Daily Record, she explained, "I'm not a big fan of (The X-Files) but I got the line about things getting strange for Mulder and Scully from watching the odd episode".
She also said that "I'm sure loads of people bought the record by mistake, but who cares? They should be flattered we wrote a song about [The X-Files] anyway".


Their album International Velvet, sold over 900,000 copies in the UK, becoming triple platinum and one of the biggest-selling albums of 1998.


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