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
- 2025-02-18 23:36
- last episode published
- 2025-02-18 05:00
- publication frequency
- 7.8 days
- Contributors
- Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 487
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Music
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2025-01-14 | 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, fro... |
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| 2025-01-07 | Critics are not feeling the love tonight when it comes to Disney's latest sequels, Mufasa and Moana 2. They've called the animated films "lifeless and bland." But save some sympathy for the composers behind these blatant IP grabs. Lin Manuel Miranda an... |
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| 2024-12-31 | 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 dow... |
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| 2024-12-24 | 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 i... |
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| 2024-12-20 | The first time you hear "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," 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. ... |
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