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• The classical rebel who infiltrated pop music

  You've heard those shimmering disco strings in Miley Cyrus's "Flowers," the cinematic arrangements on Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher, and the orchestral flourishes across Taylor Swift's catalog, but you probably didn't know they're all the...

  26 aug 2025 3095 sec.

• All roads lead to Pharrell: Tyler, Clipse, and Cardi

  The conversation around the new music this summer has been a dour one. Some of the biggest songs in the country right now are downtempo stomp-clap anthems and wistful Cranberries pastiche. Even on this very show, Nate and Charlie have...

  19 aug 2025 3156 sec.

• A brief history of terrible lyrics (with Sam Sanders)

  Why do bad lyrics happen to good people? From "suckin' on a chili dog" to "making love to his tonic and gin," even the biggest hits from our favorite artists can feature lyrical turns that make us feel quizzical, offended, or even...

  12 aug 2025 2585 sec.

• Summer Bummer (with Commotion’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud)

  Every music critic seems to agree: 2025 has no true song of summer. Last August, Teddy Swims’s “Lose Control” dominated the charts. This year…Teddy Swims’s “Lose Control” dominates the charts. What’s going on? Why is there no new summer...

  5 aug 2025 2221 sec.

• Justin Bieber's Lo-fi Bedroom Swag

  Justin Bieber is back with his seventh studio album: the aptly-titled SWAG. The lo-fi, reverb-laden record is a remarkably candid look inside the world of Bieber, using the palette of both underground pop and 90's R&B to accentuate...

  29 jul 2025 2631 sec.

• How podcasting got its sound ft. Breakmaster Cylinder

  What if the entire sound of modern podcasting can be traced back to a single Grateful Dead song uploaded in 2001? We uncover the musical lineage that connects NPR's classical gravitas to dubstep wobbles, from the very first RSS feed...

  22 jul 2025 2779 sec.

• 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 2989 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 1940 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 1928 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.