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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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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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"
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A Higher Power Ballad
Justin Bieber & Maverick City Music
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How sound becomes hearing
Unexplainable: a series on Making Sense
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Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More
Leave Britney's (voice) Alone!
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Listening 2 Britney: Toxic
How Bollywood strings, surf guitar, and Britney’s ethereal vocals add up to pop perfection
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Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U
Enter The Neptunes – Britney’s Virginia Beach Era
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Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time
Breaking down the unmistakeable voice of Britney Spears
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Chartbreakers (ft. Megan Thee Stallion and the ...
Breaking Down the Billboard Charts, From Nashville to Nigeria
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Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas
The soul singer and the psychedelic trio join forces for the second time on Texas Moon
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Shaking Out the Numb with Sylvan Esso
How Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn compose their cinematic dance-pop
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We *do* talk about Bruno
The mystery of Encanto’s #1 hit
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32 Albums in, Elvis Costello is Just Getting St...
The rock legend on Olivia Rodrigo, Adele, and his latest release The Boy Named If
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Accidental K-pop star Eric Nam risks it all to ...
Eric Nam really has been There and Back Again
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The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a lit...
Dawn FM revives Vaporwave to make The Weeknd’s best album yet
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Why do new Christmas songs fail?
Ariana, Kelly, and Bieber try to join the holiday canon
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Tai Verdes TikTok-ed his way to a breakout hit
"It's where the attention is"
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