Switched on Pop
The podcast that explores the making and meaning of popular music hosted by Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan
- Website
- http://www.switchedonpop.com
- Description
- Breaking down how popular music works
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-28 22:40
- last episode published
- 2025-03-25 12:01
- publication frequency
- 7.8 days
- Contributors
- Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 492
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Music
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-25 | The Who's "My Generation" wasn't born from inspiration—it was commissioned. In a rare interview, Pete Townshend reveals how six fans at London's Goldhawk Club in 1965 directly asked him to write an anthem for their post-war generation. This conversatio... |
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| 2025-03-18 | In 2022, Lady Gaga embarked on The Chromatica Ball – a stadium tour featuring a stage that Gaga herself referred to as her "museum of brutality." Three years later, this idea of a brutalist enshrining of all things Monster can come to represent her new... |
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| 2025-03-11 | 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&B of J... |
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| 2025-03-04 | 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 "Hide and Seek," a mysterious and e... |
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| 2025-02-25 |
“The ‘Umbrella’ Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever” In 2007, a 19-year-old Barbadian pop singer released the lead single off her third album. By doing so, she didn'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 ... |
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| 2025-02-18 | Tate McRae'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 "SimplePop" formula, from... |
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| 2025-02-11 | In last month's episode predicting the coming year in pop, one of the team'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... |
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| 2025-02-04 |
Liz Pelly's Mood Machine says the playlist isn't the product — you are Behind Spotify'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's explosive new book "Mood Machine" rips away the curtain on streaming's biggest playe... |
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| 2025-01-28 | 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... |
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| 2025-01-21 | The first great release of 2025 is already here: Bad Bunny'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 hi... |
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