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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Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales
George Michael & “A Very Chilly Christmas”
50 min
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Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing
How how "folklore" followup stacks up
42 min
278
Women's Rap Renaissance
Megan Thee Stallion, Tierra Whack, Rico Nasty, Flo Milli, and CHIKA
39 min
279
Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello
How a record label fought the AIDS pandemic
40 min
280
The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)
A synth so unusual it explains the 80s
33 min
281
ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup
34 min
282
ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star
Somebody... once told me!
31 min
283
ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This
Let's Get Ready To Rumble!!!
32 min
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ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions
Freddie Mercury turns opera into sports theater
33 min
285
Cory Henry has Something to Say
The Funk Apostles update 70s sounds for 2020
28 min
286
The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jac...
Shawn Mendes, BTS, Alicia Keys, Dua Lipa, 24kGoldn, Justin Bieber & Chance The Rapper
38 min
287
Brandy Clark's Life Is A Record
"Sometimes we're the bad guy, if we're being honest, we're all pretty flawed"
28 min
288
Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1
On his new album, Keith Urban throws convention to the wind
40 min
289
Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music
"Black Like Me" & "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?"
52 min
290
Disclosure: Where Energy Flows
Talking Beats and Birds with Disclosure
36 min
291
THE 5TH — MOVEMENT IV, What Beethoven Would Hav...
In the fourth and final movement of our series we ask what Beethoven's Fifth means to us in 2020
28 min
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT III, Putting the Classism in...
Beethoven's famous symphony gets twisted
29 min
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory
Beethoven composes his way out of an impossible situation
25 min
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing
From its first notes, Beethoven's symphony is out for blood
26 min
295
The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (ICYMI)
This Motown hit by Martha and the Vandellas gets people off their feet and onto the streets
29 min
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Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger
How the "Supalonely" star uses musical levity
25 min
297
90s Music Canon
Twenty years after the 90s, which songs are everlasting?
35 min
298
Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook
Netflix & chill meets Cole Porter
44 min
299
Black Is King (ICYMI Beyoncé's Gift To Africa f...
The music behind Beyoncé's new video album
36 min
300
folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream
Swift blurs "fantasy and reality" in her best album yet
37 min