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.
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My Beyoncé Ticket Cost $4,000: Why the Touring ...
23 min
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What makes a gay anthem?
Kylie Minogue's "Padam Padam" is the queer song of the summer. But why?
34 min
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Switches Brew: blink-182, Kate Bush, BewhY, The...
What we're listening to old and new
24 min
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Chartbreakers: Mexican regional y más
This edition of chartbreakers takes a look at everything from Peso Pluma to Taylor Swift
43 min
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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
The robots gain a heart and soul - and self-destruct in the process
35 min
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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive ...
The anti-utopian robots
37 min
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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery
The voice of a robot
35 min
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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
Soldering the Robots' synthesized circuits
36 min
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The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival
Nick, Joe and Kevin channel Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, and The Doobie Brothers
37 min
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From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovisio...
It's time for the world's campiest competition: Eurovision Song Contest
26 min
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Who killed the key change in pop music?
A musical whodunit
31 min
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A.I. Drake has put music in a tailspin
Lawlessness and Laser Bongs with The Vergecast
37 min
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BTS goes solo together
47 min
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This Generation's Caroline Polachek
For Caroline Polachek, "desire" takes many abstract forms on her latest record
42 min
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The Shakira Conspiracy
Shakira's new song embodies a conspiratorial songwriting seen at the center of this decade's biggest hits
29 min
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Reinventing Bach
Dan Tepfer connects Bach to free improv
38 min
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100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop
The duo's latest record is a sum of their influences: Primus, Future, and Justin Timberlake included
37 min
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Switches Brew
Switched On Pop's top listening picks
22 min
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Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose
Why Seal's masterstroke resonates almost thirty years later
35 min
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How John Denver got huge in Asia
The globalization of "Country Roads"
31 min
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Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country...
The Hot 100s triumphs, fumbles, and oddities
28 min
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Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's...
Exploring the late rapper's impact with author Justin Tinsley
33 min
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“Flowers” and the art of the response song
How Miley Cyrus' hit stacks up next to Bruno Mars and the answer song canon
38 min
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Rihanna Party! ICYMI
While we wait for R9
52 min
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The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk
Old Style Guitar Shop and Reuben Cox’s rubber bridge guitar
34 min