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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Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Je...
A history of women raging on the mic
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Modern Classics: Labrinth's "Sexy MF" (with Sam...
Our favorite radio host breaks down Labrinth's "bespoke, maximalist, power pop"
28 min
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Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus
“I think a lot of childhood is crisis mode, and if it's not crisis mode, its auto-pilot”
30 min
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Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)
"How cool to have a summer song that can just make people happy”
34 min
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Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren
The Pact fights back against artists who steal publishing
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40 Years Later, Japanese City Pop is Still Cras...
How Japanese pop of the 1970s and 80s became the sound of our digital present
29 min
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J Cole’s The Off Season and the Power of the 12...
A rapper at the top of his game tries to keep himself in shape
29 min
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ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s
The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal
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Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political
Improvised music isn't just virtuosity and technique, it's fighting racism and injustice
29 min
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Introducing Galaxy Brains
34 min
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Turns out Willow Smith rocks
The emo/pop punk track "Transparent Soul" makes us ask why didn't we take Willow seriously
29 min
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Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers
You’ll Always Know a Julia Michaels Song When You Hear One
40 min
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How Take A Daytrip took off (full interview)
The story of the hitmakers behind Lil Nas X’s “Montero” Sheck Wes’s “Mo Bamba” and many more
38 min
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The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Tak...
How Lil Nas X Rattled the World to Earn his Second #1 Hit
34 min
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Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)
Musicians Confront the Climate Crisis
33 min
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5 Rules of Great Songwriting Collabs, According...
5 Ground Rules for Collaboration
29 min
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Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx)
How Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak Revived 70s Philly Soul for their Throwback Hit
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AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra'
Breaking down "Bang" and "Way Less Sad"
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Return of the Funk Guitar: Cory Wong Breaks Dow...
The guitar rhythms that power pop’s biggest hits
32 min
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What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop
Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion and Taylor Swift had a big night
39 min
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Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know
"'Somebody That I Used to Know' is the most unlikely hit—it just made me dream bigger and it made me think the possibilities are endless.”
47 min
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Kaytranada's journey from basement beat-making ...
From remixing Janet Jackson, to collaborating with Anderson .Paak
34 min
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JP Saxe Didn’t Mean for His Grammy Hit ‘If the ...
Grammy Nominee for Song of the Year
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Adrian Younge's new project sounds like James B...
An unapologetic critique of racism in America — and a funky paean to its greatest Black musicians
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The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bow...
It's not your mother's Regency drama soundtrack
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