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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How The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” used retro s...
And why it is so misunderstood
35 min
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Epik High is our gateway into Korean hip hop (w...
A conversation with Tablo about Epik High Is Here Part 1
50 min
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Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full th...
The power ballad peaked in the 90s. Is it making a comeback?
37 min
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D.O.C. (Death of the Chorus) with Emily Warren
Pop music will never be the same
38 min
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ICYMI: The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall...
The end of the pop drop
45 min
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ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?
A conversation with Simon Reynolds
46 min
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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
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Women's Rap Renaissance
Megan Thee Stallion, Tierra Whack, Rico Nasty, Flo Milli, and CHIKA
39 min
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Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello
How a record label fought the AIDS pandemic
40 min
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The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)
A synth so unusual it explains the 80s
33 min
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ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup
34 min
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ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star
Somebody... once told me!
31 min
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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
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Cory Henry has Something to Say
The Funk Apostles update 70s sounds for 2020
28 min
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The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jac...
Shawn Mendes, BTS, Alicia Keys, Dua Lipa, 24kGoldn, Justin Bieber & Chance The Rapper
38 min
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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
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Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1
On his new album, Keith Urban throws convention to the wind
40 min
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Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music
"Black Like Me" & "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?"
52 min
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Disclosure: Where Energy Flows
Talking Beats and Birds with Disclosure
36 min
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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
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory
Beethoven composes his way out of an impossible situation
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing
From its first notes, Beethoven's symphony is out for blood
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