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Switched on Pop is 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply....read more

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23. Hotline Hello: Drake and Adele
folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream
01. Heartbreak
Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)
02. The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift
27. The Life Changing Magic of Music in 2015
22. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
24. Searching for Max Martin
21. Justin Bieber’s Existential Suite
12. Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You
Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time
Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U
31. Say Hey
Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’
03. Boom Bang Pow
26. Linus and Lucy
20. The Weeknd: Dance of Deception
What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop
34. Pablo And The Wolves
29. Call Your Girlfriend
15. One Direction: Our Modern Day Castrati
Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse
How The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” used retro sounds and modern bass to break every record
30. Now I Sia, Now I Don't
10. Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space
Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More
35. Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé
Listening 2 Britney: Toxic
38. Justin Timberlake Goes Medieval
14. The Final Dropout
The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots
19. Let’s Talk About Sax
44. How Beyoncé to The Beatles Modulate Your Emotions
39. When Good Music Happens To Bad People
17. Song of Summer: LIVE!
06. Mark Ronson: Funk Politics
Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing
Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas
Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album?
“Flowers” and the art of the response song
90s Music Canon
36. Jonas vs. Jonas: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Boy Band
32. American Oxygen
04. To Be Young
37. All About Those Baseline Assumptions About Feminism in Pop
16. The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen
Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
41. Breaking Down The House
The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama
11. Hozier’s Waffling of Faith in Take Me To Church
05. The Imperative Jingle Bells
25. Same Here
D.O.C. (Death of the Chorus) with Emily Warren
Kendrick Lamar and the big samples
18. Kacey Musgraves: Transgressing Country
Why do new Christmas songs fail?
09. A Cappella Dreams
Summer Hits: Lorde - Solar Power (w Hanif Abdurraqib)
Barbie and the plasticity of pop
Drake vs Drake
13. Hidden Sounds in FourFiveSeconds
28. Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems
Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Jessica Hopper)
Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full throttle power ballad
Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)
Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!
40. Around The World With Drake
Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever
Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx)
Epik High is our gateway into Korean hip hop (with Tablo)
Return of the Funk Guitar: Cory Wong Breaks Down Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware and Nile Rodgers
Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making
SZA's Endless Melody
Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits
The New Alternative
Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?
47. Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal - The Chainsmokers, 'Closer'
29B. Singing With Mama Jan
Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country
This Generation's Caroline Polachek
BTS goes solo together
Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon
Who killed the key change in pop music?
ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s
How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop
The Deep History of '7 Rings'
Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus
The New Wave of Paramore
Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers
What makes a gay anthem?
The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’
From Taylor Swift to Bon Iver, Aaron Dessner Finds Meaning in Musical Community
CHVRCHES and the sound of 80s horror
The secret world of songwriting camps
Why lo-fi is the perfect background music
LCD Soundsystem and the Unbearable Sameness of Restaurant Playlists
BONUS: Charli XCX and The Future of Music (with Dani Deahl)
48. Made In America: Toby Keith & Jay-Z
43. Pop Drops and Chipmunk Soul
07. Star Spangled
Turns out Willow Smith rocks
The future of music pt I
Song of Summer 2020: TikTok Jams, Protest Anthems, Breezy Bops & Bummer Bangers
The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Hanif Abdurraqib)
J Cole’s The Off Season and the Power of the 12/8 Shuffle
40 Years Later, Japanese City Pop is Still Crashing the Charts (with Cat Zhang)
How Bad Bunny won 2022
Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers
Why ABBA songs just hit different
The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk
Modern Classics: Mark Ronson on Ginuwine's "Pony"
08. Radio Africa
50. How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps
Doja Cat’s “Say So” is a Masterclass in Good Times
46. The World In A Grain Of Sound
Rerecording Taylor Swift's 1989, Dark Side of the Moon, and Demi Lovato
Best of 2024 so far: hip hop feuds, Hozier’s pop surprise and espresso shots
The State of the Pop Union
Beyoncé's Country
Beyoncé's House
5 Rules of Great Songwriting Collabs, According to Teddy Geiger and Dan Wilson (On Air Fest 2021)
Into It: Song of Summer 2022
Lady Gaga Is A Perfect Illusion
We *do* talk about Bruno
45. Lady Gaga Is A Perfect Illusion
Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry'
"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1
ICYMI: The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX
Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren
Taylor Swift's Literary Era
How sound becomes hearing
ICYMI 90s Music Canon
The mid-career crises of Travis Scott and Post Malone
Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis
How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star
The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift
The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)
Women's Rap Renaissance
Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger
The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy
Five Directions: How do the solo efforts of One Direction stack up?
42. The Gideon and Hubcap Show
Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt”
So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?
Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space
Kaytranada's Journey from Basement Beat-making to the Grammys
Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know
The Art of Flow
My My My! Troye Sivan + Queer Pop (w Gina Delvac, Darryl Bullock)
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
Taylor Swift Causes a PANIC!
The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jackson)
Eternal Sunshine of Ariana Grande's Mind
The Shakira Conspiracy
The Joy of Music Festivals
Eurovision 2024: from Baby Lasagna to Windows95Man
The Sound of Sapphism
Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog”
Modern Classics: Yola on Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” and the Longevity of Soul
Hear the Year: The music we loved in 2023
The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers)
100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop
Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande
The Beatles: "Now and Then" and Forever
Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?
Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon - ICYMI
Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL
Why U Love 2 Listen 2 Prince (with Anil Dash)
Total Request Live! Taylor, Lana, Kim, and More (with Sam Sanders)
Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies
Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns
Shawn Mendes and the Rhythm of Rhyme
Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern)
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Love the 90s
Billie Eilish hits both hard and soft
Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE deconstructed w. guest Amber Mark
The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions
James Blake & The Return of Harmony
Learning to love the Killers (maybe)
The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Day Trip)
Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?
Rihanna Party! (with Gina Delvac)
90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth
Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose
Top 40 Activism with Justin Tranter
808s & Havana Heartbreak
In Defense of Crunk
ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann)
Taylor Constructs A Darker Reputation
Chartbreakers: Mitski tops the TikTok chart
Were We Wrong About Kanye West?
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery
Baz Luhrmann’s “Sunscreen Song” — The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Avery Trufelman)
A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders
Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of the Music Industry
Metro Boomin Wants Some More
Unlocking the Rhythms of Rosalía
How Coachella took the Woodstock look
Noah Kahan’s Folk Pop Revival
A Higher Power Ballad
The Side Effects of Pop Music with Emily Warren
Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop
33. The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots
Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political
Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection
Heartbreak
Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger 
25. Same Here: Selena Gomez & Alessia Cara
Scary Pockets funkify pop classics (with Lizzy McAlpine)
K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE
JP Saxe Didn’t Mean for His Grammy Hit ‘If the World Was Ending’ to Be So Literal
Next Year in Margaritaville
A Brief History of Men Singing Really High
Chartbreakers (ft. Megan Thee Stallion and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Paper Planes, Chandelier & What the #@%! is Timbre? (with Constance Grady)
Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery
Doja Cat’s Satanic Suite
My Beyoncé Ticket Cost $4,000: Why the Touring Industry Might Be Broken – Into It with Sam Sanders
Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?
Post Malone has us Running in Circles
Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners
100 gecs make good bad music
Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation
Lizzo And The End of Genre (with Sam Harris of X Ambassadors)
Afrofuturism in Kali Uchis & Clipping (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes)
What Makes An Award Winning Song?
Sicko Rap and Drunk Country
The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar)
"Did I mention that it's Christmas in this club?" (w Matt Rogers)
Hip-hop's Sea Change at Rolling Loud
The Beauty and Horror of Insane Clown Posse's Summer Festival
Kali Uchis takes on the world
AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra'
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007
The ‘Renaissance’ Era
The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a little help from Jim Carrey)
Accidental K-pop star Eric Nam risks it all to go his own way
Hopes and Fears of Mac Miller, Future, Drake, and Billie Eilish
Slay Bells, All Year Long
The $50M Beat Marketplace That Broke the Billboard
ICYMI: Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)
Switches Brew: blink-182, Kate Bush, BewhY, The Pointer Sisters, Saint Levant
What it means to make music in 2020
Into It: The Business of Beyoncé
Mastering Music (with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz)
From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023
Valentines Day Special: What Makes a Song Sexy?
Summer Heat of the 2000s: Beyoncé and Black Eyed Peas (Pt. II)
Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club (with Brittany Luse)
49. Tove Lo - Cool Girl
Steve Lacy brings bedroom pop to the Billboard top
The Art of Flow (with DJ Jazzy Jeff) ICYMI
Searching for Max Martin
Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)
Song Camp 2: Electric Boogaloo! (with Alex Tumay, Wolftyla, Nicholas Petricca, Grace VanderWaal)
Feeling Fine with Faye Webster
Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas
Return Of The Guitar: Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer, Joji
What BTS's "Boy With Love" ft. Halsey Can Teach Us About K-pop
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