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Lady Gaga's Monster Return
In 2022, Lady Gaga embarked on The Chromatica Ball – a stadium tour featuring a stage that Gaga herself referred to as her "museum of brutality." Thr…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
How Missy Elliott and Timbaland Freaked the World
When the song “Get Ur Freak On” hit radio in 2001, it set the world of popular music on fire. Missy Elliott and Timbaland’s first crossover hit sound…
1 year ago
Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap
It may be hard to believe it in this technology-driven day and age, but one of the most pervasive sounds in popular music came about when a computer …
1 year ago
The Umbrella Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever
In 2007, a 19-year-old Barbadian pop singer released the lead single off her third album. By doing so, she didn't just give us a timeless, undeniable…
1 year ago
Learning to love: Tate McRae
Tate McRae's billions of streams and perfectly crafted hits can feel almost algorithmic, like an AI trained on 20 years of pop music. In anticipation…
1 year ago
Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs
In last month's episode predicting the coming year in pop, one of the team's predictions was that trance music – the ethereal, dreamy subgenre of ele…
1 year, 1 month ago
Liz Pelly's Mood Machine says the playlist isn't the product — you are
Behind Spotify's promise of infinite music lies a carefully engineered system that shapes not just what we hear, but how music itself gets made. Jour…
1 year, 1 month ago
25 Predictions for 2025: Grammys, J-pop, kazoos and more
2024 was an unpredictable year, and 2025 seems to be cut from the same cloth. So for this episode of Switched On Pop, Nate, Charlie, and Reanna look …
1 year, 1 month ago
Bad Bunny's love letter to Puerto Rico
The first great release of 2025 is already here: Bad Bunny's newest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. Over the course of its 17 tracks, the Puerto Rican r…
1 year, 1 month ago
Our jingle sucks. Let’s change it.
What happens when your podcast’s theme song—cobbled together from GarageBand loops—gets called “game show music” and likened to a cereal commercial? …
1 year, 2 months ago