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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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
26 min
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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
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90s Music Canon
Twenty years after the 90s, which songs are everlasting?
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Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook
Netflix & chill meets Cole Porter
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Black Is King (ICYMI Beyoncé's Gift To Africa f...
The music behind Beyoncé's new video album
36 min
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folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream
Swift blurs "fantasy and reality" in her best album yet
37 min
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The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama
Poppy, Grimes & Rina Sawayama
39 min
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Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of th...
Who gets paid when a hit song samples historic recordings of black prison laborers in Mississippi?
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Song of Summer 2020: TikTok Jams, Protest Anthe...
Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion, HAIM, Anderson .Paak, Chloe x Halle et al.
38 min
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The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’
Breaking down Gaga's 6th album
32 min
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I Am America (w Shea Diamond and Justin Tranter)
How Shea Diamond turned her experiences as a black trans woman in America into a bop about belonging
20 min
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Baz Luhrmann’s “Sunscreen Song” — The 90s’ Most...
How a 7m graduation speech made it on Billboard
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Jacob Collier on staying creative and his 646 t...
34 min
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What it means to make music in 2020
Featuring Ricky Reed, John-Robert, Jacob Collier & Dua Saleh
32 min
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Big Floyd And The Influence Of Houston Chopped ...
Unpacking DJ Screw, chopped and screwed, and George Floyd’s involvement with the Screwed Up Click.
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Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse
"I’m a bit of an over-writer:” How Carly Rae Jepsen whittled 200 songs down to 12
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