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Next Year in Margaritaville
When Jimmy Buffett died on the first day of September, 2023, musicians from Paul McCartney to Pitbull mourned the death of the "Margaritaville" singe…
2 years, 6 months ago
ICYMI: Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' Era
Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance is one of her most ambitious albums yet. On this week’s episode of Switched On Pop, we discuss Renaissance with belov…
2 years, 7 months ago
Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas
Everyone seems to be getting Olivia Rodrigo wrong. She's one of the few pop stars who has made it big in the current era of fragmented music streamin…
2 years, 7 months ago
Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger
In 2003, amidst a bunch of bleak alternative rock bangers like “Numb” by Linkin Park and “Bring Me To Life” by Evanescence, a rock song stood out on …
2 years, 7 months ago
The mid-career crises of Travis Scott and Post Malone
Right now, the two biggest records in the country come to us from two of hip-hop’s biggest superstars: Travis Scott and Post Malone. Both artists hav…
2 years, 7 months ago
Song Camp 2: Electric Boogaloo! (with Alex Tumay, Wolftyla, Nicholas Petricca, Grace VanderWaal)
Part two of the secret world of song camps looks at the different roles in a songwriting session. There are producers who sit behind a console desk o…
2 years, 7 months ago
The secret world of songwriting camps
Beginning in the nineties, pop songwriters have traveled to a 13th-century castle in the south of France for what’s come to be known as a “song camp”…
2 years, 7 months ago
Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!
Episode 325
Recently while scrolling twitter we saw a clip from American Idol of judge Katy Perry admonishing an auditioner on the show to “Enunciate!”
The vid…
2 years, 8 months ago
Barbie and the plasticity of pop
This past week, the film Barbie opened nationwide to massive success – and with it came a soundtrack, executive produced by Mark Ronson.
Functionin…
2 years, 8 months ago
How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star
In 1964, Louis Armstrong knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts with his recording of “Hello, Dolly!” becoming, at age 62, the oldest artist t…
2 years, 8 months ago