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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.

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  1. folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream
  2. Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)
  3. 23. Hotline Hello: Drake and Adele
  4. 01. Heartbreak
  5. 02. The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift
  6. 27. The Life Changing Magic of Music in 2015
  7. 22. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
  8. 21. Justin Bieber’s Existential Suite
  9. 24. Searching for Max Martin
  10. Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’
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  1. Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time
  2. Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U
  3. 12. Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You
  4. 31. Say Hey
  5. 03. Boom Bang Pow
  6. 26. Linus and Lucy
  7. 34. Pablo And The Wolves
  8. 20. The Weeknd: Dance of Deception
  9. Listening 2 Britney: Toxic
  10. Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse
  11. Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More
  12. 29. Call Your Girlfriend
  13. 15. One Direction: Our Modern Day Castrati
  14. 30. Now I Sia, Now I Don't
  15. brat but it's a podcast about the album by CharliXCX
  16. 10. Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space
  17. 35. Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé
  18. 38. Justin Timberlake Goes Medieval
  19. 14. The Final Dropout
  20. Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album?
  21. The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots
  22. Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
  23. 19. Let’s Talk About Sax
  24. 44. How Beyoncé to The Beatles Modulate Your Emotions
  25. Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas
  26. 17. Song of Summer: LIVE!
  27. 39. When Good Music Happens To Bad People
  28. 06. Mark Ronson: Funk Politics
  29. “Flowers” and the art of the response song
  30. The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama
  31. Why do new Christmas songs fail?
  32. 36. Jonas vs. Jonas: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Boy Band
  33. 32. American Oxygen
  34. 04. To Be Young
  35. 37. All About Those Baseline Assumptions About Feminism in Pop
  36. 90s Music Canon
  37. Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!
  38. 16. The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen
  39. How Spotify hacked our ears (and our data)
  40. Kendrick Lamar and the big samples
  41. 41. Breaking Down The House
  42. Drake vs Drake
  43. 11. Hozier’s Waffling of Faith in Take Me To Church
  44. Barbie and the plasticity of pop
  45. 05. The Imperative Jingle Bells
  46. 18. Kacey Musgraves: Transgressing Country
  47. Summer Hits: Lorde - Solar Power (w Hanif Abdurraqib)
  48. SZA's Endless Melody
  49. Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making
  50. Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)
  51. 09. A Cappella Dreams
  52. What makes a gay anthem?
  53. Who killed the key change in pop music?
  54. Lady Gaga's Monster Return
  55. 13. Hidden Sounds in FourFiveSeconds
  56. Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?
  57. The last decade of pop explained
  58. 28. Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems
  59. Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever
  60. The Deep History of '7 Rings'
  61. Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Jessica Hopper)
  62. The New Wave of Paramore
  63. Fleetwood Mac perfected turning drama into hits
  64. 40. Around The World With Drake
  65. This Generation's Caroline Polachek
  66. The New Alternative
  67. 40 Years Later, Japanese City Pop is Still Crashing the Charts (with Cat Zhang)
  68. Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits
  69. How Bad Bunny won 2022
  70. How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop
  71. ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s
  72. Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus
  73. Auto-Tune always and forever
  74. Best of 2024 so far: hip hop feuds, Hozier’s pop surprise and espresso shots
  75. The future of music pt I
  76. Billie Eilish hits both hard and soft
  77. BTS goes solo together
  78. Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country
  79. Beyoncé's Country
  80. Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon
  81. 47. Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal - The Chainsmokers, 'Closer'
  82. The secret world of songwriting camps
  83. 25. Same Here
  84. 29B. Singing With Mama Jan
  85. Charli XCX threw this party 4 us
  86. Sabrina Carpenter is more than Short n' Sweet
  87. Why Chappell Roan is the sound of 2024
  88. Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers
  89. Is Country the New Hip Hop?
  90. LCD Soundsystem and the Unbearable Sameness of Restaurant Playlists

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