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A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding pull back the curtain on how pop hits work magic on our ears & our culture. From Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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In the song "Touch" from Daft Punk's final studio album, 2013's Random Access Memories, featured artist Paul Williams sings a line that augured the end of an impressive collaboration: "I need something more." With RAM, Daft Punk pulled out all the stops, going the opposite direction of their previous albums, to "give life back to music" and bestow hearts and souls upon their robotic doppelgängers.
RAM features almost no samples or programmed digital instruments, instead leaning into extensive collaborations with legendary studio musicians, iconic producers like Nile Rodgers, and modern mavens such as Pharrell. The making of RAM followed the blueprint of classic albums from what Daft Punk called "the golden age" of recording—Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Pink Floyd. The duo spent over a million dollars, held five years of studio sessions, and painstakingly crafted each track. The result was a record that helped usher in a retro disco-funk revival across pop music and generated a smash hit in "Get Lucky." The band had perhaps crafted their magnum opus—but did it also represent the conclusion of their epic narrative of the battle between human and machine?
Songs Discussed
Daft Punk - Give Life Back to Music
Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance (feat. Pharrell Williams)
Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
Daft Punk - Giorgio by Moroder
Eagles - Hotel California
Daft Punk - Contact
The Sherbs - We Ride Tonight
Daft Punk - The Prime Time of Your Life
Daft Punk, Paul Williams - Touch (feat. Paul Williams)
Thomas Bangalter - Mythologies: X. L'Accouchement
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Throughout their legendary career, Daft Punk continued to prove that the more robotic their music became, the more human they sounded. This dichotomy came to a head on their third album, aptly titled Human After All. Where their past two records wired their circuits and gave the robots a voice, on Human After All, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo gave Daft Punk sentience. On Human After All robots rock, but they also question their rigid programming. The record's ensuing tour and resulting live album, Alive 2007, furthered the narrative by ushering in a new age of live electronic performance. The impact of these two records range from the development of EDM to everlasting hits like “Technologic.” On episode three of our Listening 2 Daft Punk series, we take a look at these two records, and how both Alive and Human After All imbued the robots with super intelligence.
Songs Discussed
Daft Punk - Human After All
Daft Punk - The Prime Time of Your Life
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Breakwater - Release the Beast
Daft Punk - Steam Machine
Daft Punk - The Brainwasher
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Daft Punk - Technologic
Daft Punk - Emotion
John Williams – Wild Signals
Daft Punk – Touch It / Technologic
Daft Punk – Oh Yeah
Daft Punk – Technologic
Busta Rhymes – Touch It
Daft Punk – Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger
Daft Punk – Face to Face / Short Circuit
Daft Punk – Da Funk / Daftendirekt
Kanye West – Stronger
Kanye West – On Sight
Daft Punk – Human After All / Together / One More Time / Music Sounds Better With You
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Daft Punk’s first album laid the groundwork for their robot personas, with four to the floor beats, programmed drum machines, and sequenced synthesizers. On their second album Discovery, Daft Punk fully lean into the artificial – singing through robotic vocoders that correspond with their now-iconic robot helmets.
But in there is a paradox, explored on episode 2 of Listening to Daft Punk: the more machine the robots become, the more human the music sounds.
Songs Discussed
Daft Punk - One More Time
Daft Punk - Teachers
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
Sister Sledge - Il Macquillage Lady
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Daft Punk - Revolution 909
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Kraftwerk - The Robots
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
Herbie Hancock - I Thought It Was You
Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce
Stevie Wonder - 1-2-3 Sesame Street
Cher - Believe
Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why
Barry Manilow - Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed
Daft Punk - Superheroes
Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby
Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
Daft Punk - Face to Face
Daft Punk - Something About Us
Daft Punk - Voyager
Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
Daft Punk - Superheroes
Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams - LYTD (Vocoder Tests) [feat. Pharrell Williams]
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Daft Punk - Crescendolls
Eddie Johns - More Spell On You
George Duke - I Love You More
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Ten years ago, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories gave life back to music. The world-beating smash “Get Lucky” broke streaming records, forged a retro sound that still dominates the charts, and paved the way for artists like The Weeknd, Dua Lipa and Lizzo to craft their own throwback hits. How did Daft Punk do it? Switched On Pop’s four part-mini series Listening 2: Daft Punk unlocks the sounds, voices, and stories across all four of the group’s studio albums. On their first album, Homework, Daft Punk stretched the boundaries of electronic music and began wiring the circuits that would become their robot alter-egos, asking a fundamental question: where does the human end and the machine begin?
Songs Discussed
Daft Punk - Give Life Back to Music
Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
The Beach Boys - Darlin'
Daft Punk - Around the World
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Strong
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Daft Punk - Game of Love
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Daft Punk - Teachers
Black Box - Ride on Time
Daft Punk - Daftendirekt
Daft Punk - Fresh
Daft Punk - High Fidelity
Daft Punk - Oh Yeah
Daft Punk - Phoenix
Daft Punk - Rollin' & Scratchin'
Daft Punk - Rock'n Roll
Daft Punk - Burnin'
Kraftwerk - The Robots
Vangelis - Main Titles
Brad Fiedel - Main Title - The Terminator
Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow - The Turing Test
Daft Punk - TRON Legacy (End Titles)
Daft Punk - Indo Silver Club
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After nearly two decades as a band the Jonas Brothers are staking their claim to a magnum opus by calling their next album, quite simply, The Album (out May 12). The project follows the success of their 2019 comeback project Happiness Begins — which blended polished pop sounds with ‘70s funk breaks and produced the No. 1 single “Sucker” — with a focus on the smooth sounds of yacht rock. Switched On pop co-host Charlie Harding spoke with Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas in March 2023, during their five night broadway run, in anticipation for the release of The Album.
Songs Discussed
Jonas Brothers - Wings, Waffle House, Montana Sky, Summer Baby, Before the Storm
Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone, Wings
Kenny Loggins - Meet Me Half Way
Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel, Leave Me Alone
The Doobie Brothers - Takin' It to the Streets, Minute By Minute
Thundercat, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins - Show You The Way
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
Eagles - Take It Easy
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It’s May, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest. This year’s edition of the international-but-primarily-in-Europe competition features a uniquely eclectic group of songs (per usual), from a take on electro-flamenco, to Game of Thrones EDM, to a previous winner’s return to the Eurovision stage. On this episode, Charlie and Nate look at the six songs bookmakers are looking at to lead the pack of this year’s entries.
Songs Discussed:
Alessandra – Queen of Kings
Deadmau5 – Right This Second
Gabry Ponte, R3HAB, Timmy Trumpet – Call Me
La Zarra – Évidemment
Édith Piaf – Non, je ne regrette rien
Claude François – Alexandrie Alexandra
Blanca Paloma – EAEA
TVORCHI – Heart of Steel
Kalush Orchesta – Stefania
Käärijä – Cha Cha Cha
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
Alice Deejay – Better Off Alone
Metallica – 72 Seasons
Loreen – Tattoo
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When trouble strikes in music town, there’s one guy who gets the call. That’s me, Joe Treble, forensic musicologist. This week, I've got one of the most shocking cases I've ever worked. Someone killed the key change in pop music, and I’m going to do whatever it takes to find the perpetrator.
The key change used to be at large on the Billboard charts. From the 1950s to the 1990s, 20-30% of all number one hits featured one. In Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody," the key change hits right before the final chorus. The song’s harmonic center shifts up, raising the pitch of the song, challenging the vocalist to hit higher and higher notes, juicing the big finish with excitement and pep. But starting in the 1990s the key change virtually disappeared from the Hot 100. Now, hit songs start and end in the same key, and no one seems to have even noticed. Except for me.
This investigation will bring me face to face with a rogue's gallery of suspects and sources: Chris Dalla Riva, music and data specialist; Brandon McFarland, alias 1-O.A.K., producer; Emily King, singer and songwriter. Each interrogation brings me closer to revealing the murderer, but will I be able to handle the terrible truth? Tune in as I tackle the hardest case of my career: the case of the missing key change!
Songs Discussed
Emily King - Georgia Sleepwalker, Medal, The Way that You Love Me
YG, Kamaiyah, RJ, Mitch, Ty Dolla $ign - Do Yo Dance (feat. Kamaiyah, RJ, Mitch, Ty Dolla $ign)
Beyoncé - Love On Top
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night
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We have an emergency podcast drop because the biggest and fastest moving story on the internet right now is about a song called “Heart On My Sleeve.” The track sounds like it was made by the producer Metro Boomin featuring Drake and The Weeknd. It might be one of the most consequential songs in music history because it was actually a fake, made with artificial intelligence. The blowback from this song has been enormous and a bit confusing. So host Charlie Harding went on The Vergecast podcast to break down how this song was likely made, and what it might mean for the music industry, the tech industry and all of our intellectual property.
Listen to the whole episode on The Vergecast
Read Alex Cranz's story on Laser Bongs on The Verge
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The South Korean idol group BTS is one of the biggest musical sensations in history. They're constantly breaking records and they have one of the most dedicated fan bases in the world known as Army. Their hit singles like “Boy With Love,” “Dynamite,” and “Butter” have been discussed on the show in the past for breaking through the US charts. But back in 2022, they decided to take a break from group activities and start releasing solo material because of their obligations to each fulfill mandatory military service in South Korea, precluding them from working together at the same time. Solo projects aren’t new for the group – BTS members have released mixtapes as far back as 2015 and countless solo singles – but this was the first time that BTS had ever announced a prolonged break. This moment, originally presented as a hiatus, has evolved into a whole new musical chapter for the group, with a seemingly endless array of new solo releases. Switched On Pop listens back to one track from each solo effort so far to introduce the casual listener to what is happening in this new era of BTS. Joining the show is Lenika Cruz, senior editor at The Atlantic, who literally wrote the book on BTS, simply called On BTS out on the Atlantic Editions imprint.
Songs Discussed:
j-hope, J. Cole - on the street
Jimin - Like Crazy
RM, Youjeen - Wild Flower
Agust D - People Pt.2
Agust D - People
Jung Kook - Dreamers
JIN - The Astronaut
BTS - Singularity, Inner Child
Coldplay, BTS - My Universe
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From the first seconds of her latest album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Caroline Polachek asserts that she is truly a once-in-a-generation artist. From her work in the indie band Chairlift to years of behind-the-scenes songwriting, she has worked hard over years to build a stellar music career – culminating in the pop opus Desire, already one of the best rated albums of 2023. On this episode of Switched on Pop, we look at Polachek’s career thus far, and talk to her about the intricacies of her latest.
Songs Discussed
Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Caroline Polachek - So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings
Chairlift - Bruises
Ramona Lisa - Dominic
Beyoncé - No Angel
Danny L Harle, Caroline Polachek - Ashes of Love
Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek - Tears
CEP - Lilian’s Pavilion
Caroline Polachek - Pretty in Possible
Suzanne Vega - Tom’s Diner DNA remix
Caroline Polachek - Welcome to my Island
Caroline Polachek - Bunny Is A Rider
Caroline Polachek - Smoke
Caroline Polachek - Crude Drawing of An Angel
Caroline Polachek - Butterfly Net
Caroline Polachek - Sunset
Caroline Polachek - Fly To You
Caroline Polachek - Hopedrunk Ever Asking
Caroline Polachek - Billions
Caroline Polachek - Blood And Butter
Caroline Polachek - Butterfly Net
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Shakira is back on the Billboard Hot 100 – thanks to the help of Argentinian producer Bizarrap. Together, their song “Shakira: BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” is layered with musical and lyrical references, from the callbacks to “She Wolf” to the multiple beat switches. It also works to play into something larger: something akin to a pop music conspiracy. On this episode of Switched On Pop, we take a closer look at Shakira’s latest, and how it’s indicative of a larger metatextual shift in pop music.
Songs Discussed:
Shakira, Bizarrap – Shakira: BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53
Shakira – Vuelve
Alanis Morrisette – Not The Doctor
Shakira – Whenever, Wherever
Shakira, Alejandro Sanz – La Tortura
Shakira, Wyclef Jean – Hips Don’t Lie
Shakira – She Wolf
The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
Giorgio Moroder – Palm Springs Drive
LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem
Pascal Letoublon – Friendships
Beyoncé – Sorry
Taylor Swift – All Too Well
Olivia Rodrigo – Driver’s License
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If you’ve ever learned classical piano, you probably tried to play one of Bach’s Inventions. The composer wrote fifteen pieces containing the most important fifteen keys in order to teach his son the fundamentals of piano and composition. Today, they remain some of the most popular pieces of piano music. Acclaimed jazz pianist Dan Tepfer recently revisited his childhood music books seeing them in a way he’d never realized as a student: the Inventions are much more than novice piano works.
For Tepfer, each of the Inventions not only highlight masterful command over harmony and counterpoint, but also contain moving character arcs that resemble the hero’s journey. A character is introduced at home in place of safety in act I. And then they are thrust into chaos and must overcome unsurmountable challenges in Act II. Finally, in Act III, our hero overcomes their final battle and returns home transformed by the journey. Once Tepfer heard this character arc, he started to apply it to his own free improv.
Through studying Bach, Tepfer conceived a new album: Inventions / Reinventions. In this project Tepfer fills in the missing keys from the Bach to complete all twenty four keys (there are twelve major and twelve minor keys) while updating the music with modern improvisation. In this conversation Tepfer walks co-host Charlie Harding through his process of playing Bach and applying it to jazz improv.
Listen to Dan Tepfer’s Inventions / Reinventions on StorySound Records
Listen to Into It with Sam Sanders on Fair Use
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Everyone will describe the music of 100 gecs differently. To some, Dylan Brady and Laura Les make deeply satisfying earworms, tracks able to scratch the itches that occupy the deepest memory-holed corners of the brain. To others, though, their music is an "anarchic assault on the ears,” a quilt of all of the genres historically ridiculed in the popular canon: nu-metal, scuzz-rock, ska and 90’s pop punk are all fair game in the world of gecs.
On their latest record, aptly titled 10000 gecs, Brady and Les double down on the crunchy distortion and harmonics, creating tracks equally influenced by Primus and Eddie Van Halen as they are by their hyperpop contemporaries. The album reflects a Internet-core approach to music as a whole, shedding notions of “good” and “bad” music in favor of catchy melodies and intricate song construction.
On this episode on Switched On Pop, we dig deep into the ethos of 100 gecs, and producer Reanna Cruz talks to the duo themselves about their eclectic sophomore record.
Songs discussed:
100 gecs – Hollywood Baby
100 gecs – Billy Knows Jamie
100 gecs – stupid horse
100 gecs – 745 sticky
100 gecs – Doritos & Fritos
Primus – Jerry Was A Racecar Driver
Ween – Bananas and Blow
Limp Bizkit – My Generation
Gorillaz – Dirty Harry
Future – I Been Drinking
J-Kwon – Tipsy
Justin Timberlake – Summer Love
Violent Femmes – Added Up
100 gecs – Dumbest Girl Alive
THX Deep Note
Cypress Hill – Insane in the Membrane
100 gecs – The Most Wanted Person in the United States
100 gecs – Frog on the Floor
Alan Jackson – Chattahoochee
Limp Bizkit – Dad Vibes
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Every week the Switched On Pop team gets together and everybody shares one song they’re loving right now. It is one of our favorite conversations each week because we hear music that is new and old, on and off the charts. We’re sharing that conversation with you as a new format we’re calling Switches Brew alongside friend of the show Brittany Luse, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute
Listen to Brittany Luse on NPR’s It’s Been A Minute: Web, Apple, Spotify
Songs Discussed
Little Freddie King - Messin' Around tha House
De La Soul - Tread Water
Nick Hakim - Qadir
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die (Marcus Intalex Remix) on Bandcamp
Madison Cunningham - Hospital (One Man Down) (feat. Remi Wolf)
Remi Wolf - Down the Line
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“Kiss From a Rose” is one of the most unusual number one hits of all time. Seal’s song can’t decide if it’s in minor or major, it uses an old-fashioned waltz rhythm, and its lush orchestration and elaborate vocal harmonies support mysterious lyrics about a “greying tower alone on the sea.” Seal himself wasn’t sure about the song, and needed some convincing to include the composition on his 1994 album SEAL II. But once director Joel Schumacher decided to use the track for the end credits of the film Batman Forever, the song went global and has remained a cultural phenomenon ever since. Ahead of his upcoming 30th anniversary tour for the albums SEAL I and SEAL II, we speak with the singer and songwriter about the enduring appeal of “Kiss From A Rose.”
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“Take Me Home, Country Roads” is a song about West Virginia, but its message of homecoming has resonance far beyond Appalachia. Songwriter and producer Ian Fitchuk found this out when he was requested to perform Denver’s music at a music festival in Tibet. Fitchuk discovered that Denver has a huge following in East and South East Asia, where Denver toured multiple times from the 70s through the 90s. Denver’s songs first came to the region through the US Armed Forces Network radio as well as a diplomatic performance for China’s leader Deng Xiaoping at the Kennedy Center in 1979. Denver performed alongside the Harlem Globetrotters and the Joffrey ballet, and he left such an impression, the show led to an invitation to be one of the first western musicians to tour China. To better understand Denver’s meaning in the region, Switched On Pop co-host Charlie Harding speaks with Ian Fitchuk about his performance and interviews journalist Jason Jeung who wrote about “Country Roads” in The Atlantic.
Songs Discussed
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
Kacey Musgraves - Oh, What A World
The East Is Red
John Denver - Rocky Mountain High
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
James Taylor - Carolina in My Mind
Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You
John Denver - Thank God I'm a Country Boy
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Currently on Billboard’s hot 100 there is an unexpected UK Garage / Jersey House mashup, a disgraced country star making a questionable comeback, and an out of nowhere fifties ballad all jockeying for their moment on the charts. This week, we take a listen to the FEBRUARY 25, 2023 Hot 100, looking for triumphs, fumbles, and oddities.
Songs Discussed
PinkPantheress, Ice Spice - Boy's a liar Pt. 2
Ice Spice - Munch (Feelin’ U)
Drake - Currents
Lil Uzi Vert - Just Wanna Rock
Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers - Sunship Edit
Todd Edwards - Wishing I Were Home
Ice Spice - In Ha Mood
Morgan Wallen - You Proof
Morgan Wallen - Last Night
Tyler Childers - Way of the Triune God - Jubilee Version
Mac DeMarco - Heart To Heart
Miguel - Sure Thing
Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, 21 Savage - Creepin' (with The Weeknd & 21 Savage)
Mario Winans - I Don't Wanna Know
Fugees, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Pras - Ready or Not
Enya - Boadicea
Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You
The Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me
Ritchie Valens - We Belong Together
The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
Patsy Cline, The Jordanaires - Crazy
Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind - Original Master Recording
The Beatles - In My Life - Remastered 2009
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Five years ago, Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle released Victory Lap, his only full length album. It was the high point of a career stretching back to the mid 2000s, when Hussle started releasing mixtapes on his own record label — mixtapes that brought him respect from artists like Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar, but were not widely heard.
Victory Lap brought him both the critical acclaim and commercial success he deserved — It hit #2 on the Billboard 200, and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Album. But only a little over a year after its release, Hussle was shot to death outside his clothing store and community center in Crenshaw. In some ways, Hussle’s tragic end has overshadowed his incredible life as a musician and community activist.
In this conversation with Justin Tinsley, host of the podcast King of Crenshaw, we listen deeply to Victory Lap to hear Nipsey’s identity as an artist and consider the legacy of his debut album on its 5th anniversary.
Songs Discussed
Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap, Dedication, Hussle and Motivate, Last Time That I Checc'd, Real Big
Arctic Monkeys - Knee Socks
Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
Snoop Dogg - Y'all Gone Miss Me
More
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Check out more of Justin's work
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“Flowers” by Miley Cyrus is spending another week on top of the Billboard 100 – quite fitting for Valentine’s Day.
The disco-country track has gotten people talking for a few reasons, but most notably, Cyrus invokes Bruno Mars’ classic “When I Was Your Man” in both lyrical and melodic allusions. The connection between the two songs is not one of interpolation, but rather, Miley is responding to Bruno’s hit through her own words: making “Flowers” an answer song.
This episode of Switched On Pop, we take a deeper look at “Flowers” and how it fits in the canon of response songs throughout history, from classics like “This Land is Your Land” to Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.”
Songs Discussed:
Miley Cyrus – Flowers
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
Dua Lipa – New Rules
Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
TLC – No Scrubs
Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg – California Girls
JAY-Z, Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind
Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog
Rufus Thomas – Bear Cat
Hank Thompson – The Wild Side of Life
Kitty Wells – It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Ray Charles – Hit the Road, Jack
Nina Simone – Come on Back Jack
The Chantels – Well, I Told You
UTFO – Roxanne, Roxanne
Roxanne Shanté – Roxanne’s Revenge
UTFO – The Real Roxanne
New Edition – Candy Girl
The Jackson 5 – ABC
Sir Mix-A-Lot – Baby Got Back
Nicki Minaj – Anaconda
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“Rihanna Is The 21st Century’s Most Influential Musician” according to NPR. Millions and millions of fans the world over agree, and while we try to avoid overt expressions of pop favoritism, we think they’ve got a strong case. It’s for that reason and a dozen others that we were thrilled to welcome Gina Delvac of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend back to the show to discuss the legendary career of one Ms. Robyn Rihanna Fenty. As we all await her ninth studio album (R9), join us for a virtual* blunt-smoke-laced tour through the hit songs that defined her early sound, and a delectable deep dive into her most recent album, ANTI.
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Check out Jenny Gathright’s NPR article “Rihanna Is The 21st Century’s Most Influential Musician.”
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Zoe
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I love this podcast and both the hosts but this episode was super annoying.
Bring the other host back. This is so stupid.
so happy for your episode. just listened to this song and then opened up my podcast app (castbox) to see the song and group featured!
Such an amazing album, truly ✨
Human? Of all the songs to pick. Wow.
After the pandemic was over, the first thing I did was buy a ticket to a music festival because I'm a huge fan, and the atmosphere there is fantastic. I try to attend every festival I find, even if I haven't heard of the bands before, and it's still an amazing experience. I managed to find many great artists that way, and thanks to https://ww.mp3juice.link , it's not that hard for me to listen to them even if they don't upload their songs on streaming services.
jfc why title it BTS when you spend 90% of it talking about other kpop groups? especially when a lot of aspects mentioned about the big3 don't even apply to BTS
Love them so much. So talented
This is very stupid. The truth is, unless you copy the same "song"/lyrics, there shouldn't be any copyright ownership.
More music. Less talking. Most annoying guest.
Can you, please, talk about Marina (fka Marina and the diamonds)? Her most recent work is particularly interesting, and something worth exploring on a deeper level. Her lyricism is really what stands out. She has one of the rarest writing styles in the industry.
black eyed peas I got a feeling is a sports anthem. this one is absolutely not.
How I love the critics and the analysis!
have it a chance, and glad I did.
hey guys...not sure if you guys get messages through this platform, but commercial placement and movie placement is likely the biggest reason the next generation knows a rune from before their birth... ;)
Kaleidoscopic pop, keyboard pop, korporate pop, Korean pop... what a great introduction to kpop.
nice podcast
Another great episode.
buttcheeks bumping?? 🤣🤣🤣
how did Freddie Mercury not get a mention in an episode about falsetto? great show!