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
- 2024-12-20 21:29
- last episode published
- 2024-12-20 10:00
- publication frequency
- 7.82 days
- Contributors
- Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 478
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Music
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2024-12-17 | 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 rada... |
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| 2024-12-13 | It'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's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which reportedly earns the pop star $2.5 million annua... |
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| 2024-12-10 | In 2024, Kendrick Lamar pulled off what seemed impossible: winning hip-hop's biggest rap battle in recent history, securing the Super Bowl halftime show, and dropping GNX, a surprise album that might be the year's defining pop record. But this triumpha... |
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| 2024-12-03 | The year'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 s... |
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| 2024-11-29 | 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 philo... |
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| 2024-11-27 | 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 sound... |
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| 2024-11-25 | Madonna is the world's biggest female pop star. She'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 s... |
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| 2024-11-19 | 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 p... |
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| 2024-11-12 | A musical "freak," to us here at Switched On Pop, is an artist who is unique, non-conforming, and always manages to surprise. We're living in some freaky times right now, so there's no better way to honor that than to listen to pop's freakiest artists.... |
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