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
- 2024-11-19 07:23
- last episode published
- 2024-11-19 05:00
- publication frequency
- 7.89 days
- Contributors
- Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 470
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Music
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Episodes
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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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| 2024-11-05 | Over the summer, the culture was shaken by the biggest rap beef this decade, between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. From “First Person Shooter” to “Not Like Us,” hip-hop listeners hung on each rapper’s every word and rebuttal, and for the first time in year... |
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| 2024-10-29 | It’s the spookiest time of the year; Halloween is right around the corner. But unlike the winter holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah, Halloween seems to lack a defining canon of scary music. There’s, of course, “Monster Mash,” and “Ghostbusters,” but ... |
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| 2024-10-22 | Stevie Wonder may be our modern day Mozart. A child prodigy, he joined Motown as a preadolescent where he was marketed as “Little” Stevie Wonder. He wowed audiences with his virtuosic command of the piano, harmonica, drums and of course, vocals. At jus... |
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| 2024-10-15 | We celebrate Switched On Pop's 10th anniversary by taking a deep dive into the last decade of pop music. From bubblegum pop to EDM, trap, and K-pop, we explore how the sound of pop has continually evolved—even when it feels like it’s all the same. Plus... |
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| 2024-10-08 | Coldplay is one of the biggest musical acts in the world, ranking #6 on Spotify and boasting one of the highest-grossing tours of all time. Yet, despite their global success, they've often been a critical punching bag. The New York Times once branded t... |
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| 2024-10-01 | Marianne Eloise has had the same Fall Out Boy song stuck in her head for over three years. "It’s Hard to Say 'I Do,' When I Don’t," an relatively obscure cut from the band's 2007 album Infinity on High has taken up permanent residence in her brain as t... |
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| 2024-09-24 | Last month, our producer Reanna Cruz had the opportunity to attend Baja Beach Fest in Rosarito, Mexico, a three-day Latin music festival set on the Mexican coastline. While they were there, they got the chance to tap into what's happening in the world ... |
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| 2024-09-17 |
How Megan Thee Stallion brought Japanese hip hop to the Hot 100 "Mamushi," the fourth single from Megan the Stallion’s album Megan was not supposed to be a huge hit. But thanks to a viral dance, the song has become the first song on the Billboard Hot 100 to feature Japanese lyrics since 1963. With. a feature from r... |
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