Hanging on the telephone: the pop and rap acts waiting for your call

Fever Ray and Eminem have reignited pop’s obsession with the hotline. Will you accept the charges?

Last week, Eminem’s manager Paul Rosenberg tweeted a photo of a billboard advertising a medicine called Revival. If you call the accompanying number – 1-833–243-8738 – you get a recorded message, set to a piano version of Dr Dre’s I Need a Doctor, with Eminem song titles subtly slipped into the medical advice. It swiftly followed Fever Ray’s comeback, signalled by a video imploring you to phone a number that connects to the answering machine of a creepy old-school personals service. It’s happening: the pop hotline is back.

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