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• Is that new song you like AI? Here’s how you can tell

  The robots have arrived, and they're making protest songs about boots on the ground. When an AI band called The Velvet Sundown fooled over a million Spotify listeners with their psychedelic folk anthems, it raised an unsettling...

  15 jul 2025 3109 sec.

• The Benson Boone-Doggle

  In which we explore the unlikely rise, and surprising backlash against, one Benson Boone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  8 jul 2025 2060 sec.

• Can Recession Pop predict the market?

  Why does the economy look great on paper but feel terrible in your wallet? There might be a more revealing economic indicator hiding in your Spotify queue. "Recession Pop" first emerged during the Great Recession and exploded into...

  1 jul 2025 2048 sec.

• How Americana helped mainstream country find its soul

  As we've been examining over the course of Country Week, country music has found a larger audience, in part by widening its sonic palette. For the final episode of this series, we take a look at a genre on the outskirts of country –...

  27 jun 2025 2122 sec.

• Country music is Mexican (Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera)

  More often than not, country music is seen as an "American" genre – meaning that the music is seen as strictly from the United States. In some ways, that's true; but the genre's iconography, sound, and ethos can actually be traced to...

  26 jun 2025 1955 sec.

• The Ballad of Lainey Wilson and Jessie Murph

  There's often an unspoken (and deeply misogynistic) rule on country music radio: never play two female artists back to back. In this episode of Switched On Pop's country week, we aim to do just that. Looking at two artists on opposite...

  25 jun 2025 1705 sec.

• The hick hop renaissance (BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman)

  One of the biggest country hits of the year has been "All The Way," by Texas rapper BigXthaPlug and country rocker Bailey Zimmerman, which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is a perfectly mixed cocktail of trap sonics with...

  24 jun 2025 2139 sec.

• Is Morgan Wallen the problem with country music?

  Country music stands at a crossroads between tradition and evolution, and no artist embodies this tension better than Morgan Wallen. His song "I'm the Problem" opens with beautiful bluegrass guitar before hitting you with hard-hitting...

  23 jun 2025 2150 sec.

• "Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

  Looking for relationship advice? Skip the self-help books and turn to Sabrina Carpenter's latest single "Manchild" instead. This deep dive into the art of musical insults reveals how pop's newest sensation joins a legendary lineage of...

  17 jun 2025 1784 sec.

• Frankly, Sinatra still matters (with Seth MacFarlane)

  What if the Chairman of the Board's biggest contribution to music wasn't his voice, but the blueprint he created for modern pop stardom? Frank Sinatra didn't just sing songs: he invented the concept album, injected his full personality...

  10 jun 2025 2906 sec.

• Is the future of pop...heavy metal?!

  The UK outfit Sleep Token has done what we once thought impossible: Found commercial success playing heavy metal music in 2025 AD. Their fourth studio album, Even in Arcadia, went to number one on the Billboard 200 upon its release,...

  3 jun 2025 2759 sec.

• Charli XCX threw this party 4 us

  Five years ago, Charli XCX released the track "party 4 u," a melancholic ode to throwing a function for that one specific person. Now, in 2025, the song has gotten a renewed life – motivated by a foolproof cocktail of TikTok trends, the...

  27 mei 2025 2318 sec.