Switched On Pop
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Switched On PopVoicesThe rise of surrealist pop: KATSEYE and ADÉLA The music of global girl group KATSEYE might be confusing on first listen. A less-generous read might consider their songs to be rudimentary: the lyrics are mostly nonsense, the instrumentals evoke…
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Switched On PopVoicesWhy we need bad music For the 500th(!) episode of Switched on Pop, Charlie and Nate try to answer the question that has stumped critics and philosophers since the dawn of sound: does bad music exist?
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Switched On PopVoicesHas Taylor Swift jumped the shark? One year after the release of her twelfth studio album The Life of a Showgirl , Taylor Swift is back with an encore.
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Switched On PopVoicesCarly Rae Jepsen’s pop pedagogy Five years after her first appearance on Switched on Pop, Carly Rae Jepsen returns to the podcast to talk all things Day and Night , her latest album.
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Switched On PopVoicesTove Lo wants her music to sound out of control (ft. Tove Lo) Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo’s new album ESTRUS can be summarized in the opening lyrics of the album’s closing track, “source of life”: “Feral, fragile, numb, ecstatic / sad, euphoric, catatonic…
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Switched On PopVoicesLizzy McAlpine summons Nick Drake & Joni Mitchell Lizzy McAlpine opens up about her 4th album Angel alongside collaborators Mason Stoops and Taylor Mackall . Recorded live at Power Station at Berklee NYC.
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Switched On PopVoicesThe power of singing together (ft. Tiny Habits) Throughout pop history, groups from The Ink Spots to the Beach Boys to Fleetwood Mac all forged their sound in the alchemy of vocal harmonies, harnessing the magic that happens when different voices…
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Switched On PopVoicesQuestionably Country For the first time in history, five country songs were at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Ella Langley, Morgan Wallen, Taylor Swift and Stella Lefty all have songs that range from two-stepping hits…
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Switched On PopVoicesPhoebe Bridgers opens her Moleskine Many of us keep a journal, but few of us are able to turn our unvarnished thoughts into cultural moments touching on love, death, and guitars quite like Phoebe Bridgers.
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Switched On PopVoicesWe have Confessions to make... Madonna has returned this summer with Confessions II : an album full of huge hooks, pounding bass, and sincere emotion.
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Switched On PopVoicesA piano lesson that will change how you listen (ft. Lang Lang) For many people – including Charlie and Nate – studying classical piano as a child always felt like a chore.
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Switched On PopVoicesIV. Take It to the Bridge (ft. Tayla Parx) Bridges open up the world of a song: they're a breath of fresh air and a point of contrast, typically delivered right before the final chorus.
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Switched On PopVoicesIII. Preaching to the Chorus (ft. Cypress Hill and Trevor Horn) The chorus was once the part of the song that brought us together, the place we gathered to sing. Now it's the most engineered thirty seconds in music.
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Switched On PopVoicesII. Justice for the verse (ft. Audrey Hobert) Everybody sings the chorus, but superfans quote the verse. On this episode of Switched on Pop, Charlie and Nate trace the verse from Shakespeare through opera to TikTok, and songwriter Audrey Hobert…
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Switched On PopVoicesI. Let's get it started (ft. Aaron Dessner) Research says you judge a song in under half a second. So why write an intro at all? On this episode of Switched on Pop, Charlie and Nate kick off their Netflix launch and probe what an intro means…
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Switched On PopVoicesSwitched On Pop on Netflix July 14th We're coming to the big screen with a four part mini series starting July 14th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Switched On PopVoicesMusic only the World Cup could make The quadrennial soccer (or fútbol, depending who you talk to) competition is upon us again: it's the FIFA World Cup!
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Switched On PopVoicesWhy we can't resist Swedish pop (ft. Zara Larsson) ICYMI In case you missed it: How does a country of 10 million people dominate the global pop charts? From ABBA's Eurovision breakthrough to Max Martin's methodical hit-making, Sweden has quietly engineered…
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Switched On PopVoices2hollis is the underground’s genre-hopping vampire In the last episode of our feral pop miniseries, we take a look at the 22 year old rapper primed to take over the world: 2hollis.
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Switched On PopVoicesPop music for an internet-pilled generation This week on Switched On Pop, we’re looking at all things feral pop, the microgenre that takes pop music to its most wild extremes.
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Switched On PopVoicesThe new wave of pop is here, and it’s feral What would it sound like if pop music was reverted to its most wild state of being? It would sound hyper-digital, influenced by the electronic vanguard of the 2010s, and speak to a post-genre…
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Switched On PopVoicesOlivia Rodrigo has The Cure for sadness Olivia Rodrigo is back with her third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl in love. As the title might suggest, it’s a deeply personal affair, with moody soundscapes supporting hyper-detailed…
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Switched On PopVoicesPaul McCartney went back to Liverpool for something new to say Boys of Dungeon Lane , McCartney's collaboration with producer Andrew Watt, arrived when McCartney was 83 and and he came out swinging: the opening track greets listeners with a dissonant, unresolved…
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Switched On PopVoicesHow a sci-fi dystopia became a personal utopia (ft. Arc Iris) A sci-fi ballet imagined a 2080 where AI strips people of purpose, and the day before its New York premiere, an actual dystopia arrived.
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