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Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern)
Episode 84
There is a lot of scare about the impending future of artificial intelligence making humans irrelevant. Musician Taryn Southern examines this narrati…
7 years, 11 months ago
Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL
Samantha Gongol and Jeremy Lloyd are songwriting duo Marian Hill are here to share their annoyingly sharp insights on music. They come bearing the wi…
7 years, 11 months ago
Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies
On her single 'Butterflies,' Kacey Musgraves demonstrates a tour de force of songwriting. This song is a wild success because it incessantly reinforc…
7 years, 11 months ago
Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation
In which Nate tries to convince Charlie that Lil Pump's SoundCloud Rap hit "Gucci Gang" warps the perceptual present.Featuring:Lil Pump - Gucci GangG…
8 years ago
How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo
Janelle Monáe's "Make Me Feel" is a sensual song about the fluidity of desire. In the pre-chorus, the singer proudly expresses that she is a "sexual …
8 years ago
808 Havana Heartbreak
In Camila Cabello's "Havana" we hear both her Cuban roots and the sounds of East Atlanta. Though the singer and her featured guest, Young Thug, colle…
8 years, 1 month ago
My My My! Troye Sivan + Queer Pop (w Gina Delvac, Darryl Bullock)
Gina Delvac of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast and Darryl W Bullock, author of David Bowie Made Me Gay, join Nate and Charlie to dig into the poetry…
8 years, 1 month ago
90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth
The 90s are back. It is as if pop music entered a black whole and came out 25 years in the past. Today's artists are reviving the past through nostal…
8 years, 2 months ago
Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis
What's up with Justin Timberlake? Two years ago he gifted us the ebullient family-friendly jam "Can't Stop the Feeling," now he's on the cusp of a de…
8 years, 2 months ago
BONUS: Dua Lipa's Minor Mantra (w Emily Bootle)
Charlie talks laments, Baroque opera, and gender politics in Dua Lipa's sleeper hit "New Rules" with writer Emily Bootle.Learn more about your ad cho…
8 years, 3 months ago