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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Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers
OneRepublic's 'Top Gun' interpolation of Peter Bjorn and John
23 min
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Into It: Song of Summer 2022
16 min
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Learning to love the Killers (maybe)
Listening with open ears to the bands that confound us
29 min
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K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generati...
One of these songs made us cry
31 min
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Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Pun...
How Lovato’s newest track features all the traits of pop-punk old and new.
22 min
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Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era
Into It’s Sam Sanders on Beyoncé's new album
28 min
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Into It: The Business of Beyoncé
Introducing Sam Sanders's new Vulture podcast
38 min
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"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1
Lizzo channels retro soul and responds to fan feedback on her latest album
27 min
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Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Lon...
You Ain’t Nothing but a Tresillo
20 min
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We Won’t Go Back: Pop Music and the Fight For R...
Musicians speak and sing out on the repeal of Roe v Wade
27 min
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Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns
Harry Styles's latest album brings back the power and pomp of the 80s brass section
21 min
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ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luh...
Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen
50 min
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Beyoncé's House
"Break My Soul" is an ode to liberation and tribute to the pioneers of house.
29 min
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Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his sco...
The polymath pianist breaks down Coltrane and Kareem
21 min
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Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Micha...
Why 80s films sounded so cheesy, but Stranger Things does not
18 min
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Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four...
Why "Running Up That Hill" is doing better in 2022 than 1985
28 min
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So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?
Why did Charlie Puth collaborate JVKE?
31 min
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The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey ...
How Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" powered decades of pop hits
24 min
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Kendrick Lamar and the big samples
Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
28 min
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Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wo...
Collaborating on "Be Like Water" from Watch the Sun
26 min
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Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?
Power ballads, Europop, folk music and kitsch
25 min
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Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "yo...
Stuart Murdoch on why the Glasgow band has "no themes, schemes, or plans" when making new music
25 min
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The New Alternative
Chartbreakers: Nirvana, Halsey, Wet Leg, Willow, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Wayne, Beabadoobee
28 min
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Jump-starting the creative process with Allison...
"I'm more creative and more daring if I have the proper tools to wrangle my thoughts and feeling"
17 min
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A Higher Power Ballad
Justin Bieber & Maverick City Music
24 min