Switched on Pop
Listen closer to pop music — hear how it moves us. Hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding. From Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Kacey Musgraves walks country’s borderlands
36 min
2
Rostam reimagines American music
51 min
3
Eurovision is back – but not without controversy
52 min
4
Samara Cyn is rap's best new writer
37 min
5
Olivia Rodrigo and the second verse massacre
41 min
6
Hrishikesh Hirway made an album about running o...
40 min
7
BTS is back. But K Pop is not the same.
45 min
8
Maggie Rogers: going viral is a trap
35 min
9
Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is b...
44 min
10
Slayyyter might actually be the 'Worst Girl in ...
35 min
11
How Charlie Puth honored Whitney Houston for 12...
54 min
12
RAYE’s maximalist masterpiece is the hope we need
40 min
13
Where have all the white rappers gone?
48 min
14
Jacob Collier can make anyone sing
52 min
15
Harry Styles loses himself to dance
41 min
16
Can Bruno Mars counterprogram his way to anothe...
42 min
17
Charli XCX’s "Wuthering Heights" fever dream
46 min
18
Will Sinners do for blues what O Brother did fo...
48 min
19
Jazz is A$AP Rocky’s secret weapon
33 min
20
Does humor belong in music?
45 min
21
And the Grammy goes to…
49 min
22
Robyn’s new songs bring “drum 'n' grace” to the...
43 min
23
Audrey Hobert says the quiet part out loud
52 min
24
2026 Pop Predictions: big beat, animated avatar...
56 min
25
The Sound of Silence from Unexplainable
29 min