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.

http://www.switchedonpop.com

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 36m. Bisher sind 406 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 10 days 13 hours 9 minutes

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Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein


Why 80s films sounded so cheesy, but Stranger Things does not


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 June 16, 2022  21m
 
 

Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making


Why "Running Up That Hill" is doing better in 2022 than 1985


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 June 14, 2022  31m
 
 

episode 271: So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?


Why did Charlie Puth collaborate JVKE?


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 June 7, 2022  34m
 
 

episode 270: The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy


How Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" powered decades of pop hits


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 May 31, 2022  27m
 
 

Kendrick Lamar and the big samples


Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers


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 May 24, 2022  31m
 
 

Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true


Collaborating on "Be Like Water" from Watch the Sun


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 May 17, 2022  29m
 
 

Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?


Power ballads, Europop, folk music and kitsch


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 May 10, 2022  28m
 
 

Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid"


Stuart Murdoch on why the Glasgow band has "no themes, schemes, or plans" when making new music


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 May 3, 2022  28m
 
 

The New Alternative


Chartbreakers: Nirvana, Halsey, Wet Leg, Willow, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Wayne, Beabadoobee


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 April 26, 2022  31m
 
 

Jump-starting the creative process with Allison Ponthier


"I'm more creative and more daring if I have the proper tools to wrangle my thoughts and feeling"


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 April 19, 2022  20m