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.

Music Commentary
Music Interviews
Music History
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Women's Rap Renaissance
Megan Thee Stallion, Tierra Whack, Rico Nasty, Flo Milli, and CHIKA
39 min
327
Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello
How a record label fought the AIDS pandemic
40 min
328
The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)
A synth so unusual it explains the 80s
33 min
329
ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup
34 min
330
ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star
Somebody... once told me!
31 min
331
ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This
Let's Get Ready To Rumble!!!
32 min
332
ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions
Freddie Mercury turns opera into sports theater
33 min
333
Cory Henry has Something to Say
The Funk Apostles update 70s sounds for 2020
28 min
334
The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jac...
Shawn Mendes, BTS, Alicia Keys, Dua Lipa, 24kGoldn, Justin Bieber & Chance The Rapper
38 min
335
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
336
Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1
On his new album, Keith Urban throws convention to the wind
40 min
337
Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music
"Black Like Me" & "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?"
52 min
338
Disclosure: Where Energy Flows
Talking Beats and Birds with Disclosure
36 min
339
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
340
THE 5TH — MOVEMENT III, Putting the Classism in...
Beethoven's famous symphony gets twisted
29 min
341
THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory
Beethoven composes his way out of an impossible situation
25 min
342
THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing
From its first notes, Beethoven's symphony is out for blood
26 min
343
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
344
Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger 
How the "Supalonely" star uses musical levity
25 min
345
90s Music Canon
Twenty years after the 90s, which songs are everlasting?
35 min
346
Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook
Netflix & chill meets Cole Porter
44 min
347
Black Is King (ICYMI Beyoncé's Gift To Africa f...
The music behind Beyoncé's new video album
36 min
348
folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream
Swift blurs "fantasy and reality" in her best album yet
37 min
349
The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama
Poppy, Grimes & Rina Sawayama
39 min
350
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?
25 min