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What if the entire sound of modern podcasting can be traced back to a single Grateful Dead song uploaded in 2001? We uncover the musical lineage that connects NPR&#39;s classical gravitas to dubstep wobbles, from the very first RSS feed experiment to the mysterious masked composer who&#39;s scored over 200 podcast themes and shaped what millions of people hear when they hit play. This deep dive reveals...
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Is that new song you like AI? Here’s how you can tell
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The robots have arrived, and they&#39;re making protest songs about boots on the ground. When an AI band called The Velvet Sundown fooled over a million Spotify listeners with their psychedelic folk anthems, it raised an unsettling question: have the machines gotten so good we can no longer hear the difference? Charlie puts Nate to the test with a game of &quot;AI or Human?&quot; featuring Wu-Tang deepfakes,...
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Why does the economy look great on paper but feel terrible in your wallet? There might be a more revealing economic indicator hiding in your Spotify queue. &quot;Recession Pop&quot; first emerged during the Great Recession and exploded into playlists, radio formats, and DJ sets in 2024. From melancholy indie anthems to escapist dance tracks, the songs we gravitate toward during uncertain times might pred...
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 As we&#39;ve been examining over the course of Country Week, country music has found a larger audience, in part by widening its sonic palette. For the final episode of this series, we take a look at a genre on the outskirts of country – Americana music – and how it&#39;s being used to connect to the scene&#39;s musical roots.  

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More often than not, country music is seen as an &quot;American&quot; genre – meaning that the music is seen as strictly from the United States. In some ways, that&#39;s true; but the genre&#39;s iconography, sound, and ethos can actually be traced to the south of the border, in Mexican regional music. 

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There&#39;s often an unspoken (and deeply misogynistic) rule on country music radio: never play two female artists back to back. In this episode of Switched On Pop&#39;s country week, we aim to do just that. Looking at two artists on opposite ends of the country music spectrum – traditionalist Lainey Wilson, and genre-bending Jessie Murph – Nate and Charlie try to understand the state of female country...
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The hick hop renaissance (BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman)
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One of the biggest country hits of the year has been &quot;All The Way,&quot; by Texas rapper BigXthaPlug and country rocker Bailey Zimmerman, which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is a perfectly mixed cocktail of trap sonics with country melodies, held together by a shared southern drawl between the two artists. 

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Country music stands at a crossroads between tradition and evolution, and no artist embodies this tension better than Morgan Wallen. His song &quot;I&#39;m the Problem&quot; opens with beautiful bluegrass guitar before hitting you with hard-hitting 808 basslines, creating a sonic reflection of country&#39;s current identity crisis. Wallen has this uncanny ability to turn his endless personal problems into undeni...
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&quot;Manchild&quot; and other songs about male incompetence
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Looking for relationship advice? Skip the self-help books and turn to Sabrina Carpenter&#39;s latest single &quot;Manchild&quot; instead. This deep dive into the art of musical insults reveals how pop&#39;s newest sensation joins a legendary lineage of women artists who&#39;ve perfected the craft of calling out incompetent men through song. From Dolly Parton&#39;s subversive &quot;Dumb Blonde&quot; to TLC&#39;s iconic &quot;No Scrubs,&quot; th...
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Frankly, Sinatra still matters (with Seth MacFarlane)
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What if the Chairman of the Board&#39;s biggest contribution to music wasn&#39;t his voice, but the blueprint he created for modern pop stardom? Frank Sinatra didn&#39;t just sing songs: he invented the concept album, injected his full personality into every performance, and created a template for artistic control that today&#39;s biggest stars still follow. His influence runs deeper than you think: Amy Wineho...
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Is the future of pop...heavy metal?!
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The UK outfit Sleep Token has done what we once thought impossible: Found commercial success playing heavy metal music in 2025 AD.

Their fourth studio album, Even in Arcadia, went to number one on the Billboard 200 upon its release, with all ten of its tracks charting on the Hot 100—this despite the fact that the band has been entirely masked and anonymous through their nine year existence.

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Charli XCX threw this party 4 us
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Five years ago, Charli XCX released the track &quot;party 4 u,&quot; a melancholic ode to throwing a function for that one specific person. Now, in 2025, the song has gotten a renewed life – motivated by a foolproof cocktail of TikTok trends, the Billboard Hot 100, and a post-Brat Summer clamor for Charli.

It&#39;s rare for pop songs like this to get a second wind. So, on this episode of Switched On Pop, Re...
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808: The drum machine that changed music forever (Twenty Thousand Hertz)
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The 808 is arguably the most iconic drum machine ever made. Even if you’ve never heard of it, you’ve definitely heard it. It’s in dozens of hit songs -- from Usher to Marvin Gaye, Talking Heads to The Beastie Boys -- and its sounds have quietly cemented themselves in the cultural lexicon. In this episode, we try to understand how that happened and follow the unlikely path of the 808. Featuring ...
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Chartbreakers: Lorde &amp; Drake reboot, Worship Pop, and the shortest song ever
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What happens when worship anthems climb the charts alongside soul revivals and nostalgia-driven comebacks? The May 2025 Billboard charts reveal a fascinating musical landscape where Drake performs a strategic reset after his epic battle with Kendrick, worship-adjacent pop dominates the mainstream, and The Marias reject conventional song structures with dreamy success. From the bizarre 34-second...
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‘Sinners’ summons the demons of American music
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We rarely cover movies here at Switched On Pop. But after seeing Ryan Coogler&#39;s new vampire musical Sinners, we knew we had to make an exception. 

The movie is an ode to Black music. Throughout its over two hour runtime, the film pays tribute to the blues: nodding to the musicians, instruments, and melodies that make it a foundational genre in the American musical canon. There&#39;s also Irish fol...
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Eurovision feast: Poison Cake, Milkshake Man, and Espresso Macchiato (featuring Tommy Cash)
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It&#39;s that time of year again: Eurovision Song Contest is upon us. And with the competition comes a tradition at Switched On Pop, where Charlie and Nate look at the songs (and countries) that have the best odds to take home the title. This year, we have an ode to the sauna, soaring operatics, and a feast of food-themed tunes – including the Estonian entrant Tommy Cash&#39;s ode to the &quot;Espresso Macc...
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Put your headphones on for TikTok&#39;s Addison Rae
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Despite TikTok defining this decade&#39;s music landscape, the app hasn&#39;t spawned a bonafide pop superstar – yet. 24-year-old Addison Rae is trying to be the first.

She&#39;s already had cosigns from Arca, Charli XCX, and Benny Blanco; critical acclaim from outlets like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Elle; and is cultivating a fervent fanbase with a slew of breathy, ethereal, and inspiration-laden sing...
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Generation Taylor: Gracie, Maisie, Phoebe (with Jensen McRae)
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Taylor Swift isn&#39;t just a world-conquering pop star at the top of her game, her approach to songwriting has also proven massively influential for an up-and-coming generation of singer-songwriters. Gracie Abrams, Maisie Peters, and Phoebe Bridgers—all of whom opened for Swift during her Eras Tour—each owe a debt to Swift&#39;s hyperspecific lyrics, minimal melodies, and bombastic bridges. We break d...
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Music&#39;s New Success Model
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Specialized platforms and social media have empowered musicians to tap into niche audiences, igniting a quiet revolution in the music industry. Despite the dominance of viral hits, a new wave of artists, labels and businesses are redefining success by building dedicated fanbases with focused, niche strategies. This conversation, live from SXSW, features Charlie leading a conversation with: 

LP...
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Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde
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Miley Cyrus just released three singles from her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful. Inspired by Pink Floyd&#39;s The Wall—specifically the 1982 feature film based on the album—Cyrus is not just sharing new music but a whole visual album, each song accompanied by a music video shot by director Panos Cosmatos. We last heard from Cyrus in 2023 with her massive smash &quot;Flowers,&quot; which found the in...
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Chappell Roan is giving country... and hair metal?
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Why was Chappell Roan&#39;s band dressed like an 80s hair metal act during her Grammy performance? The answer unlocks the surprising secret behind her #1 country hit &quot;The Giver.&quot; This musical detective story connects glam rock aesthetics to modern country through an unexpected lineage involving AC/DC&#39;s producer, Shania Twain&#39;s revolution, and men who inadvertently dressed in drag. Between fiddle li...
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Writing The Who’s ‘My Generation&#39; With Pete Townshend
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The Who&#39;s &quot;My Generation&quot; wasn&#39;t born from inspiration—it was commissioned. In a rare interview, Pete Townshend reveals how six fans at London&#39;s Goldhawk Club in 1965 directly asked him to write an anthem for their post-war generation. This conversation uncovers how a simple request transformed into rock&#39;s definitive youth statement, complete with its rebellious stutter and blues foundations. A...
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Lady Gaga&#39;s Monster Return
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In 2022, Lady Gaga embarked on The Chromatica Ball – a stadium tour featuring a stage that Gaga herself referred to as her &quot;museum of brutality.&quot; Three years later, this idea of a brutalist enshrining of all things Monster can come to represent her new studio album MAYHEM. 
Over the course of fourteen tracks, Gaga is &quot;unafraid to reference or not reference,&quot; invoking not just the pop weirdos of...
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How Missy Elliott and Timbaland Freaked the World
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When the song “Get Ur Freak On” hit radio in 2001, it set the world of popular music on fire. Missy Elliott and Timbaland’s first crossover hit sounded nothing like the chart-topping bluesy rock of Aerosmith or Lenny Kravitz, or the smooth R&amp;B of Joe or Jagged Edge. It was a song that compelled you to dance - literally, with Missy issuing repeat commands to “get ur freak on” and encouraging cro...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1741683600" data-format="short_date">Mar 11, 2025</span></span>
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Playing &quot;Hide and Seek&quot; with Imogen Heap
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It may be hard to believe it in this technology-driven day and age, but one of the most pervasive sounds in popular music came about when a computer STOPPED working. In 2005, artist and innovator Imogen Heap released &quot;Hide and Seek,&quot; a mysterious and emotional song featuring just her voice and a digital harmonizer. In this episode, Nate and Reanna dissect a song that launched a thousand memes a...
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“The ‘Umbrella’ Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever”
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In 2007, a 19-year-old Barbadian pop singer released the lead single off her third album. By doing so, she didn&#39;t just give us a timeless, undeniable banger -- she changed the way pop music is made, and became the global superstar that we know Rihanna to be today. In this episode we go back in time to unearth the origins of &quot;Umbrella,&quot; and how the song blossomed as a result of many shifting cur...
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Learning to love: Tate McRae
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Tate McRae&#39;s billions of streams and perfectly crafted hits can feel almost algorithmic, like an AI trained on 20 years of pop music. In anticipation of McRae’s third album So Close to What, out this Friday, we dissect McRae’s &quot;SimplePop&quot; formula, from her strategic, indescript vocal delivery to expert &quot;vibe snatching&quot; of Y2K sounds. 
Through singles like &quot;exes” and “sports car,” Charlie and Re...
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Does It Trance? The Weeknd &amp; FKA Twigs
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In last month&#39;s episode predicting the coming year in pop, one of the team&#39;s predictions was that trance music – the ethereal, dreamy subgenre of electronic music popular around the turn of the century – would make a comeback on the charts in 2025. And even though we&#39;re less than two months into the year, we&#39;re already seeing the tides of nostalgia bring this club-oriented music come back into ...
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Liz Pelly&#39;s Mood Machine says the playlist isn&#39;t the product — you are
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Behind Spotify&#39;s promise of infinite music lies a carefully engineered system that shapes not just what we hear, but how music itself gets made. Journalist Liz Pelly&#39;s explosive new book &quot;Mood Machine&quot; rips away the curtain on streaming&#39;s biggest player, revealing how its algorithms and backroom deals dictate the soundtrack to our lives. With major labels controlling 70% of streams and Spotify ...
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25 Predictions for 2025: Grammys, J-pop, kazoos and more
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2024 was an unpredictable year, and 2025 seems to be cut from the same cloth. So for this episode of Switched On Pop, Nate, Charlie, and Reanna look into the crystal ball of pop music to create a (playable) bingo card of predictions for the coming year – including AI songs on the Hot 100, a return of boy bands, and... kazoos? The Album of the Year race for this upcoming Grammys is similarly unp...
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Bad Bunny&#39;s love letter to Puerto Rico
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The first great release of 2025 is already here: Bad Bunny&#39;s newest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. Over the course of its 17 tracks, the Puerto Rican reggaetonero crafts an intertextual, anti-colonial tome of a record, incorporating sounds from across his island and the boricua diaspora. From his use of salsa classics on &quot;NUEVAYoL,&quot; to his pointed interpolations on &quot;VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR,&quot; and his...
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Our theme music sucks. Let’s change it.
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What happens when your podcast’s theme song—cobbled together from GarageBand loops—gets called “game show music” and likened to a cereal commercial? You rewrite it. In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of Switched on Pop’s sonic makeover, from scathing critiques by music industry heavyweights to the creation of a lush, layered soundscape inspired by Wendy Carlos and PBS science shows....
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Have Disney musicals lost their edge?
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Critics are not feeling the love tonight when it comes to Disney&#39;s latest sequels, Mufasa and Moana 2. They&#39;ve called the animated films &quot;lifeless and bland.&quot; But save some sympathy for the composers behind these blatant IP grabs. Lin Manuel Miranda and the duo Barlow and Bear had to match the original, iconic numbers from the Lion King and Moana, songs written by Elton John and Miranda himself...
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Going Off Book
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On this very special episode, we join forces with the hilarious podcast OFF BOOK. When our powers combine, Zach and Jess of Off Book, plus their killer backing band of Scott, Dana and Brett create an improvised musical, while Nate and Charlie break down the sound and structure of a Broadway show. Stay tuned for deep thoughts about what separates pop music from musicals, wild speculation about t...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1735639200" data-format="short_date">Dec 31, 2024</span></span>
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Auto-Tune always and forever
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Popular music changes all the time, but there’s been one consistent element in practically everything released in the last two decades: Auto-Tune is everywhere. What started as a simple audio processing tool in the 1990s has become the dominant force in music. Artists are training to sing with Auto-Tune; songs sound like Auto-Tune. Like it or hate it, Auto-Tune is everywhere. And to be clear, m...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1735034400" data-format="short_date">Dec 24, 2024</span></span>
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The many lives of &quot;Santa Claus is Coming to Town&quot;
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The first time you hear &quot;Santa Claus is Coming to Town,&quot; it probably registers as just another cheery holiday standard. But hiding within this seemingly simple song is a remarkable story of American transformation - musical, technological, and social. Each time artists reimagine the song over its 90-year history, they leave an imprint not just of their own style, but of their entire cultural mo...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1734688800" data-format="short_date">Dec 20, 2024</span></span>
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Breaking Through: Doechii, Mk.gee, Rosé
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Three artists quietly reshaped pop music in 2024, though you might not know it from your Spotify Wrapped. As listeners question the accuracy of their year-end streaming stats, we explore the innovative sounds bubbling up just below the algorithmic radar. Tampa&#39;s &quot;Swamp Princess&quot; Doechii brings narrative depth back to hip-hop through her chameleonic vocal approach. Bedroom producer Mk.gee discov...
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42m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1734429600" data-format="short_date">Dec 17, 2024</span></span>
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The best (and worst) of holiday music in 2024
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It&#39;s an annual tradition: Every December, artists release their bids to join the hallowed halls of holiday music history. The gold standard remains Mariah Carey&#39;s &quot;All I Want for Christmas Is You,&quot; which reportedly earns the pop star $2.5 million annually in royalties. This year&#39;s crop of seasonal offerings spans from ambitious originals to reimagined classics, with artists trying everything fr...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1734084000" data-format="short_date">Dec 13, 2024</span></span>
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Kendrick Lamar: from Pulitzer to pop
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In 2024, Kendrick Lamar pulled off what seemed impossible: winning hip-hop&#39;s biggest rap battle in recent history, securing the Super Bowl halftime show, and dropping GNX, a surprise album that might be the year&#39;s defining pop record. But this triumphant return wasn&#39;t guaranteed. Two decades into his career — well past the average life expectancy of a rap career — Kendrick faced a critical chal...
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We&#39;re off to see the &quot;Wicked&quot;
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The year&#39;s hottest movie is, against all odds, a musical. Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, just hit theaters, and tells the tale of how a green-skinned girl named Elphaba became the Wicked Witch of the West. And with any musical, the songs are just as important as the narrative. On this episode of Switched On Pop, Charlie, Nate, and Reanna hop on their broomsticks to break down...
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Listening 2 Madonna: Ray of Light
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TIME Magazine once said, “there are few figures more closely associated with religion in pop culture than Madonna.” And looking at her catalog, it’s hard to disagree. From cheeky double entendres on “Like A Prayer,” to explorations of alternative philosophies on Ray of Light, spiritual practice has always been a core aspect of Madonna’s work. And as she dips her toes in different ideologies, sh...
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Listening 2 Madonna: Spanish Eyes
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Throughout her forty-year career, Madonna has managed to travel the globe, both literally and musically. Despite being a white woman from the midwest (Michigan, to be exact), her discography has been influenced by countless different cultures and sounds.
Even from her very first single, Madonna has frequently paid homage to those she has encountered, reflecting (and sometimes appropriating) the...
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Listening 2 Madonna: Who&#39;s That Girl?
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Madonna is the world&#39;s biggest female pop star. She&#39;s influenced everyone from Beyoncé to Britney Spears; is the most successful solo artist in Hot 100 chart history; and is the best-selling female recording artist of all time. Her career – which has spanned over forty years – has seen her continually reinventing herself and her sound over fourteen studio albums, from her early years in the New...
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Fleetwood Mac perfected turning drama into hits
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In 1973, before their ascent to rock superstardom with Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were just two young lovers making music in Los Angeles. Their debut album, Buckingham Nicks, though commercially unsuccessful at the time, would prove to be the catalyst that changed their lives. When Mick Fleetwood happened to walk into Sound City Studios and overheard Buckingham&#39;s masterf...
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Still Freaky After All These Years: Gaga, Tyler, The Cure
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A musical &quot;freak,&quot; to us here at Switched On Pop, is an artist who is unique, non-conforming, and always manages to surprise. We&#39;re living in some freaky times right now, so there&#39;s no better way to honor that than to listen to pop&#39;s freakiest artists. The past few weeks have seen new releases from Lady Gaga, Tyler, the Creator, and The Cure – the latter releasing their first new album in sixte...
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Over the summer, the culture was shaken by the biggest rap beef this decade, between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. From “First Person Shooter” to “Not Like Us,” hip-hop listeners hung on each rapper’s every word and rebuttal, and for the first time in years, the genre felt exciting.
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It’s the spookiest time of the year; Halloween is right around the corner. But unlike the winter holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah, Halloween seems to lack a defining canon of scary music. There’s, of course, “Monster Mash,” and “Ghostbusters,” but those songs aren’t actually bone-chilling. Is there a way to make music scary? In a live show from The Dalton School in New York City, Nate and C...
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Stevie Wonder may very well be our modern-day Mozart. A child prodigy, he joined Motown as a preadolescent, marketed as “Little Stevie Wonder.” He amazed audiences with his virtuosic command of the piano, harmonica, drums, and, of course, his vocals. At just 13, he achieved his first number one hit with “Fingertips Part II,” an unusual chart-topper that featured a live recording of mostly impro...
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We celebrate Switched On Pop&#39;s 10th anniversary by taking a deep dive into the last decade of pop music. From bubblegum pop to EDM, trap, and K-pop, we explore how the sound of pop has continually evolved—even when it feels like it’s all the same. Plus, we pull back the curtain on the show with a special interview: Sean Rameswaram, host of Vox&#39;s Today Explained, puts Nate and Charlie in the hot...
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