Switched on Pop

A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding pull back the curtain on how pop hits work magic on our ears & our culture. From Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Music Commentary
Music Interviews
Music History
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Slay Bells, All Year Long
37 min
302
Look What You Made Us Do
54 min
303
Entering Beard Phase with Mike Posner
50 min
304
How Dirty Projectors Make You Feel Energy (with...
David Lonsgtreth breaks down "I Feel Energy"
52 min
305
Stairway To Hell: Greta Van Fleet’s Scorching A...
Is Greta Van Fleet a Led Zeppelin Homage or a Copy?
56 min
306
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Love the 90s
34 min
307
Sicko Rap and Drunk Country
33 min
308
The Side Effects of Pop Music with Emily Warren
42 min
309
Drake vs Drake
40 min
310
Summer Heat of the 2000s: Beyoncé and Black Eye...
25 min
311
Summer Heat of the 2000s: Nelly + Katy Perry (P...
22 min
312
Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?
The Switched on Pop Summer Throwback Series continues! This time, with a deep dive into the musical detritus of the 1990s.
46 min
313
The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets
27 min
314
Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Bea...
27 min
315
The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Ha...
43 min
316
Afrofuturism in Kali Uchis & Clipping (with Dav...
46 min
317
Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry'
How tempo rubato, modal interchange and the amen break create equanimity.
35 min
318
Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Tar...
51 min
319
Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL
42 min
320
Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies
26 min
321
Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjecti...
25 min
322
How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo
48 min
323
808s & Havana Heartbreak
54 min
324
My My My! Troye Sivan + Queer Pop (w Gina Delva...
55 min
325
90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth
32 min