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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Post Malone has us Running in Circles
Post Malone has confounded your hosts since he emerged on the scene, so this week we sit down to try and get to the bottom of our cycles of attraction and repulsion through deep analysis of his current hit, "Circles." Along the way, we discuss trenchant questions such as: How is the minor IV always the saddest of all chords? Why does Posty tend to sound like a certain ruminant mammal? And, what happens when you plug Tchaikovsky into a Wu Tang name generator?
Songs Discussed:
- Post Malone - Circles, Rockstar, Stay, Congratulations, Candy Paint,
- Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
- Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 6, Finale
And don't forget to enter the Wu Tang Name Generator
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