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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Santigold sings Spirituals
The genre-defying performer walks the line between horror and beauty on her newest album
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The future of music pt I
A conversation with The Vergecast
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Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos
How Lady Gaga uses Latin influence to engage with her Latinx audience
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Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers
OneRepublic's 'Top Gun' interpolation of Peter Bjorn and John
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Into It: Song of Summer 2022
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Learning to love the Killers (maybe)
Listening with open ears to the bands that confound us
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K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generati...
One of these songs made us cry
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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.
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Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era
Into It’s Sam Sanders on Beyoncé's new album
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Into It: The Business of Beyoncé
Introducing Sam Sanders's new Vulture podcast
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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
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Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Lon...
You Ain’t Nothing but a Tresillo
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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
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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
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Beyoncé's House
"Break My Soul" is an ode to liberation and tribute to the pioneers of house.
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Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his sco...
The polymath pianist breaks down Coltrane and Kareem
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Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Micha...
Why 80s films sounded so cheesy, but Stranger Things does not
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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
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So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?
Why did Charlie Puth collaborate JVKE?
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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
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Kendrick Lamar and the big samples
Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
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Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wo...
Collaborating on "Be Like Water" from Watch the Sun
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Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?
Power ballads, Europop, folk music and kitsch
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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
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