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Switched on Pop — 534 episodes

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Paul McCartney went back to Liverpool for something new to say

2

How a sci-fi dystopia became a personal utopia (ft. Arc Iris)

3

Why bands give us purpose (ft. MUNA)

4

Drake's Slop Era

5

Kacey Musgraves walks country’s borderlands

6

Rostam reimagines American music

7

Samara Cyn is rap's best new writer

8

Olivia Rodrigo and the second verse massacre

9

Hrishikesh Hirway made an album about running out of time — in no time

10

BTS is back. But K Pop is not the same.

11

Maggie Rogers: going viral is a trap

12

Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

13

Slayyyter might actually be the 'Worst Girl in America'

14

How Charlie Puth honored Whitney Houston for 125 million people (live at Berklee NYC)

15

RAYE’s maximalist masterpiece is the hope we need

16

Where have all the white rappers gone?

17

Jacob Collier can make anyone sing

18

Harry Styles loses himself to dance

19

Can Bruno Mars counterprogram his way to another hit album?

20

Charli XCX’s "Wuthering Heights" fever dream

21

Will Sinners do for blues what O Brother did for bluegrass?

22

Jazz is A$AP Rocky’s secret weapon

23

Does humor belong in music?

24

And the Grammy goes to…

25

Robyn’s new songs bring “drum 'n' grace” to the dance floor

26

Audrey Hobert says the quiet part out loud

27

2026 Pop Predictions: big beat, animated avatars, and Bruno Mars

28

The Sound of Silence from Unexplainable

29

Naughty or nice? The 2025 holiday music round up

30

The year that killed music (best and worst of 2025)

31

Why pop songwriters break the rules (ft. Amy Allen)

32

How Sombr’s bedroom recordings became his biggest hits

33

"It’s a Hail Mary every time" (ft. Marc Rebillet)

34

Quitting Spotify (ft. Deerhoof)

35

Is there a Disney curse?: Demi, Selena, and Miley

36

Rosalía's 'LUX' brings the symphony to the club

37

Lily Allen and Tate McRae revive the revenge anthem

38

Can “professor” Charlie Puth pass our qualifying exam?

39

How D'Angelo changed music, in three songs

40

What do John C. Reilly and Taylor Swift have in common? The Great American Songbook

41

Taylor Swift’s Showgirl Sound: How to actually listen to the album

42

The Power of the Trio (ft. Trousdale live at USC)

43

Doja Cat is the new Janet

44

Stockholm syndrome: Why we can't resist Swedish pop (ft. Zara Larsson)

45

The music theory behind K Pop Demon Hunters' chart dominance

46

The architecture of the album with Djo (Joe Keery live at NYU)

47

Finneas and Ashe want you to start a band

48

Fleetwood Mac's Missing Link Album Returns After 50 Years

49

The classical rebel who infiltrated pop music

50

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

51

A brief history of terrible lyrics (with Sam Sanders)

52

Summer Bummer (with Commotion’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud)

53

Justin Bieber's Lo-fi Bedroom Swag

54

How podcasting got its sound ft. Breakmaster Cylinder

55

Is that new song you like AI? Here’s how you can tell

56

The Benson Boone-Doggle

57

Can Recession Pop predict the market?

58

How Americana helped mainstream country find its soul

59

Country music is Mexican (Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera)

60

The Ballad of Lainey Wilson and Jessie Murph

61

The hick hop renaissance (BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman)

62

Is Morgan Wallen the problem with country music?

63

"Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

64

Frankly, Sinatra still matters (with Seth MacFarlane)

65

Is the future of pop...heavy metal?!

66

Charli XCX threw this party 4 us

67

808: The drum machine that changed music forever (Twenty Thousand Hertz)

68

Chartbreakers: Lorde & Drake reboot, Worship Pop, and the shortest song ever

69

‘Sinners’ summons the demons of American music

70

Eurovision feast: Poison Cake, Milkshake Man, and Espresso Macchiato (featuring Tommy Cash)

71

Put your headphones on for TikTok's Addison Rae

72

Generation Taylor: Gracie, Maisie, Phoebe (with Jensen McRae)

73

Music's New Success Model

74

Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde

75

Chappell Roan is giving country... and hair metal?

76

Writing The Who’s ‘My Generation' With Pete Townshend

77

Lady Gaga's Monster Return

78

How Missy Elliott and Timbaland Freaked the World

79

Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap

80

The Umbrella Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever

81

Learning to love: Tate McRae

82

Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs

83

How Spotify hacked our ears (and our data)

84

25 Predictions for 2025: Grammys, J-pop, kazoos and more

85

Bad Bunny's love letter to Puerto Rico

86

The biggest theme song fail

87

Have Disney musicals lost their edge?

88

Going Off Book

89

Auto-Tune always and forever

90

Santa Claus is coming to town and stalking America

91

Breaking Through: Doechii, Mk.gee, Rosé

92

The best (and worst) of holiday music in 2024

93

Kendrick Lamar: from Pulitzer to pop

94

We're off to see the "Wicked"

95

Listening 2 Madonna: Ray of Light

96

Listening 2 Madonna: Spanish Eyes

97

Listening 2 Madonna: Who's That Girl?

98

Fleetwood Mac perfected turning drama into hits

99

Still Freaky After All These Years: Gaga, Tyler, The Cure

100

Did Kendrick Lamar kill hip-hop?

101

Where are all the scary songs?

102

The virtuosity of Stevie Wonder

103

The last decade of pop explained

104

Learning to love: Coldplay

105

Fall Out Boy and the worst earworm ever

106

Mexican pop is bigger than you think

107

How Megan Thee Stallion brought Japanese hip hop to the Hot 100

108

Learning to love: Oasis

109

Newcomers: Porter Robinson

110

Sabrina Carpenter is more than Short n' Sweet

111

Newcomers: Jhayco

112

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars bring back the duet

113

Newcomers: Magdalena Bay

114

Tinashe’s “Nasty” takes on Janet and Beyoncé + Are songs getting simpler?

115

Kesha v Katy + Tayla Parx on pop’s obsession with eras

116

Introducing One Song

117

brat but it's a podcast about the album by CharliXCX

118

Why Chappell Roan is the sound of 2024

119

Is country the new hip hop?

120

The music industry's AI fight

121

Switched-On Wendy Carlos

122

The song of the summer is DEAD with Today Explained

123

Lawrence: the kick-ass eight-piece family band reshaping the music business

124

The Imperfect Feminine: Camila, Charli, and Sabrina

125

Empress Of asks for your consideration (with Empress Of)

126

Bootsy Collins is gonna funk you up (with Bootsy Collins)

127

Freaking out about songwriting with Nile Rodgers

128

Begging songs and basketball's musicality (with Hanif Abdurraqib)

129

Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist (with Charlie Puth)

130

Billie Eilish hits both hard and soft

131

Gastropod: Why are restaurants so loud? Plus the science behind the perfect playlist

132

Is pop music just fast food? (with Gastropod)

133

Rosie Tucker's unending bliss

134

Eurovision 2024: from Baby Lasagna to Windows95Man

135

Justice is never-ending

136

Best of 2024 so far: hip hop feuds, Hozier’s pop surprise and espresso shots

137

Taylor Swift's Literary Era

138

Lost Notes: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA

139

Berlin's Hottest Club is Rico Nasty & Boys Noize

140

Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

141

Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country

142

Hip-hop's Sea Change at Rolling Loud

143

Rhapsody in Blue, Reimagined

144

Eternal Sunshine of Ariana Grande's Mind

145

How to DIY a Music Career (with Amelia Meath and David Gray at SXSW)

146

Is Beyoncé's music #sponcon? And other mysteries LIVE in Brooklyn

147

Jacob Collier unites the world

148

Beyoncé's Country

149

Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)

150

The Star Spangled Banger!

151

Brittany Howard's Chaos Theory (with Brittany Howard)

152

The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar)

153

Kali Uchis takes on the world

154

Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande

155

The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions

156

Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon - ICYMI

157

Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales - ICYMI

158

"Did I mention that it's Christmas in this club?" (w Matt Rogers)

159

Nicki Minaj's Roman Empire

160

Hear the Year: The music we loved in 2023

161

Behind the Scenes of Switched on Pop on Harman Audio Talks

162

Noah Kahan’s Folk Pop Revival

163

Why Country Music Dominated 2023's Charts

164

The Beatles: "Now and Then" and Forever

165

Rerecording Taylor Swift's 1989, Dark Side of the Moon, and Demi Lovato

166

Chartbreakers: Mitski tops the TikTok chart

167

How Talking Heads reinvented the concert film (with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz)

168

Feeling Fine with Faye Webster

169

Metro Boomin Wants Some More

170

In Defense of Crunk

171

Made In America: Jay-Z & Toby Keith ICYMI

172

The Art of Flow (with DJ Jazzy Jeff) ICYMI

173

Doja Cat’s Satanic Suite

174

Jimmy Buffett: Next Year in Margaritaville

175

Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' Era ICYMI

176

Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas

177

Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger

178

The mid-career crises of Travis Scott and Post Malone

179

Song Camp 2: Electric Boogaloo! (with Alex Tumay, Wolftyla, Nicholas Petricca, Grace VanderWaal)

180

The secret world of songwriting camps

181

Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!

182

Barbie and the plasticity of pop

183

How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star

184

Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)

185

My Beyoncé Ticket Cost $4,000: Why the Touring Industry Might Be Broken – Into It with Sam Sanders

186

What makes a gay anthem?

187

Switches Brew: blink-182, Kate Bush, BewhY, The Pointer Sisters, Saint Levant

188

Chartbreakers: Mexican regional y más

189

Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007

191

Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery

192

Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework

193

The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival

194

From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023

195

Who killed the key change in pop music?

196

A.I. Drake has put music in a tailspin

197

BTS goes solo together

198

This Generation's Caroline Polachek

199

The Shakira Conspiracy

200

Reinventing Bach

201

100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop

202

Switches Brew

203

Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose

204

How John Denver got huge in Asia

205

Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners

206

Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"

207

“Flowers” and the art of the response song

208

Rihanna Party! ICYMI

209

The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk

210

A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders

211

Wonders: Bobby McFerrin

212

The New Wave of Paramore

213

Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20

214

SZA's Endless Melody

215

Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon

216

ICYMI 90s Music Canon

217

ICYMI: We *do* talk about Bruno

218

Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop

219

How Bad Bunny won 2022

220

The soft sounds of Kali Uchis (live from Vulture Fest)

221

The Art of Flow

222

Willow Smith rocks harder

223

The Sound of Sapphism

224

Scary Pockets funkify pop classics (with Lizzy McAlpine)

225

Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’

226

Steve Lacy brings bedroom pop to the Billboard top

227

Why it hurts to release a record (with Sylvan Esso)

228

Santigold sings Spirituals

229

The future of music pt I

230

Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos

231

Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers

232

Into It: Song of Summer 2022

233

Learning to love the Killers (maybe)

234

K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE

235

Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection

236

Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era

237

Into It: The Business of Beyoncé

238

"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1

239

Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog”

240

We Won’t Go Back: Pop Music and the Fight For Reproductive Rights (w MILCK and Ann Powers)

241

Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns

242

ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann)

243

Beyoncé's House

244

Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his score for "Winning Time"

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245

Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

246

Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making

247

So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?

248

The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy

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249

Kendrick Lamar and the big samples

250

Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true

251

Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?

252

Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid"

253

The New Alternative

254

Jump-starting the creative process with Allison Ponthier

255

A Higher Power Ballad

256

How sound becomes hearing

257

Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More

258

Listening 2 Britney: Toxic

259

Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U

260

Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time

261

Chartbreakers (ft. Megan Thee Stallion and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)

262

Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas

263

Shaking Out the Numb with Sylvan Esso

264

We *do* talk about Bruno

265

32 Albums in, Elvis Costello is Just Getting Started

266

Accidental K-pop star Eric Nam risks it all to go his own way

267

The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a little help from Jim Carrey)

268

Why do new Christmas songs fail?

269

Tai Verdes TikTok-ed his way to a breakout hit

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270

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise The Roof

271

The Beatles get back to their roots

272

Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club (with Brittany Luse)

273

Snotty Nose Rez Kids on hip hop and Indigenous protest

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274

The State of the Pop Union

275

Why ABBA songs just hit different

276

The Healing Power of Pop with Esperanza Spalding

277

Janet Jackson's Legacy After 'Control' from It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders

278

James Bond's Spycraft Sound

279

James Blake & The Return of Harmony

280

Sparkle spoke out against R Kelly. It cost her her career.

281

ICYMI: The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)

282

Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits

283

CHVRCHES and the sound of 80s horror

284

From Taylor Swift to Bon Iver, Aaron Dessner Finds Meaning in Musical Community

285

Modern Classics: Carina del Valle Schorske on Cat Power's "Manhattan"

286

The Joy of Music Festivals

287

The Beauty and Horror of Insane Clown Posse's Summer Festival

288

How Coachella took the Woodstock look

289

Modern Classics: Mark Ronson on Ginuwine's "Pony"

290

Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt”

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Modern Classics: Yola on Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” and the Longevity of Soul

292

The Appealing Uneasiness of Listening to L’Rain (Live at JBL)

293

Summer Hits: City Girls - Twerkulator (with Kyra Gaunt)

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Summer Hits: Lorde - Solar Power (w Hanif Abdurraqib)

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Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Jessica Hopper)

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Modern Classics: Labrinth's "Sexy MF" (with Sam Sanders)

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Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus

298

Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)

299

Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren

300

40 Years Later, Japanese City Pop is Still Crashing the Charts (with Cat Zhang)

301

J Cole’s The Off Season and the Power of the 12/8 Shuffle

302

ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s

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Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political

304

Introducing Galaxy Brains

305

Turns out Willow Smith rocks

306

Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers

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307

How Take A Daytrip took off (full interview)

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308

The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)

309

Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)

310

5 Rules of Great Songwriting Collabs, According to Teddy Geiger and Dan Wilson (On Air Fest 2021)

311

Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx)

312

AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra'

313

Return of the Funk Guitar: Cory Wong Breaks Down Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware and Nile Rodgers

314

What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop

315

Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know

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Kaytranada's journey from basement beat-making to the Grammys

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317

JP Saxe Didn’t Mean for His Grammy Hit ‘If the World Was Ending’ to Be So Literal

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318

Adrian Younge's new project sounds like James Baldwin meets Marvin Gaye

319

The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers)

320

How The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” used retro sounds and modern bass to break every record

321

Epik High is our gateway into Korean hip hop (with Tablo)

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Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full throttle power ballad

323

D.O.C. (Death of the Chorus) with Emily Warren

324

ICYMI: The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX

325

ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

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Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales

327

Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing

328

Women's Rap Renaissance

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329

Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello

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330

The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)

331

ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It

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ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star

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ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This

334

ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions

335

Cory Henry has Something to Say

336

The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jackson)

337

Brandy Clark's Life Is A Record

338

Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1

339

Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music

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340

Disclosure: Where Energy Flows

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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT IV, What Beethoven Would Have Wanted

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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT III, Putting the Classism in Classical

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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory

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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing

345

The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (ICYMI)

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Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger

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90s Music Canon

348

Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook

349

Black Is King (ICYMI Beyoncé's Gift To Africa ft. Ivie Ani)

350

folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream

351

The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama

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Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of the Music Industry

353

Song of Summer 2020: TikTok Jams, Protest Anthems, Breezy Bops & Bummer Bangers

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The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’

355

I Am America (w Shea Diamond and Justin Tranter)

356

Baz Luhrmann’s “Sunscreen Song” — The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Avery Trufelman)

357

Jacob Collier on staying creative and his 646 track song “All I Need”

358

What it means to make music in 2020

359

Big Floyd And The Influence Of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music

360

Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse

361

Why lo-fi is the perfect background music

362

Eurovision Lives! (with Netta)

363

How To Soundtrack A Villain: Killing Eve

364

Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album?

365

Doja Cat’s “Say So” is a Masterclass in Good Times

366

Were We Wrong About Kanye West?

367

Aussie2Aussie: 5SOS on Tame Impala (with Luke Hemmings & Calum Hood)

368

The (murder) Ballad of Joe Exotic “Tiger King” (with Robert Moor)

369

D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick)

370

"Happy Birthday" is the Worst (with Anne-Marie)

371

Bad Bunny Has A Message For Your Mom

372

The Fire & Fury Of Overcoats

373

Can't Help Falling in Lauv (the interview)

374

What Happens When Justin Bieber Samples Your Music

375

Return Of The Guitar: Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer, Joji

376

Look At Selena Gomez Now with Justin Tranter & Ian Kirkpatrick

377

Five Directions: How do the solo efforts of One Direction stack up?

378

Post Malone has us Running in Circles

379

Hopes and Fears of Mac Miller, Future, Drake, and Billie Eilish

380

Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever

381

ICYMI: Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder

382

ICYMI: Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)

383

Dolly Parton's America (with Jad Abumrad)

384

Who's Afraid of the Sound of TikTok? (w Cat Zhang)

385

Paper Planes, Chandelier & What the #@%! is Timbre? (with Constance Grady)

386

Prelude & Feud on a 'G' Thang: Biggie vs Tupac

387

Pop is the Sound We Need Right Now (with Electric Guest)

388

The Past, Present, and Future of EMO (with Allegra Frank)

389

When Pop and Classical Collide (with James Bennett II)

390

Unlocking the Rhythms of Rosalía

391

Rihanna Party! (with Gina Delvac)

392

Why U Love 2 Listen 2 Prince (with Anil Dash)

393

A Brief History of Men Singing Really High

394

Total Request Live! Taylor, Lana, Kim, and More (with Sam Sanders)

395

Mastering Music (with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz)

396

Jazz 1959

397

BONUS: Charli XCX and The Future of Music (with Dani Deahl)

398

The “Baby Shark” Phenomenon (with Andrea Silenzi)

399

BONUS: Who are the Picassos of pop? (with Ross Golan)

400

Switched Off Book the Improvised Musical (with Jess McKenna and Zach Reino)

401

ICYMI: How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

402

ICYMI: Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?

403

Songs of Summer Call-in Special

404

Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder

405

Beyoncé's Gift To Africa (with Ivie Ani)

406

LCD Soundsystem and the Unbearable Sameness of Restaurant Playlists

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The $50M Beat Marketplace That Broke the Billboard

408

Shawn Mendes and the Rhythm of Rhyme

409

Space, The Final Frontier: Madonna, Stephen Puth and Street Studios

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What BTS's "Boy With Love" ft. Halsey Can Teach Us About K-pop

411

"Prince Ali" and Why We're All Music Theorists

412

Why Does Every Intro Sound Like It's Underwater? (Live)

413

The Man Behind the Rocketman with Giles Martin

414

The Greatest Pop Stories Never Told (with Jessica Hopper)

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Should You Care About Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber?

416

The Smooth Sound of NPR Morning News

417

Is There An Indie Rock Conspiracy? (Featuring Joywave)

418

Lizzo And The End of Genre (with Sam Harris of X Ambassadors)

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419

Taylor Swift Causes a PANIC!

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Sounds Like Teen Spirit (with Elle Fanning)

421

Lil Nas X: Country at the Crossroads

422

Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)

423

BONUS: Bhi Bhiman's 'Peace of Mind' Episode 1

424

Bhi Bhiman Puts the Music Before the Message

425

Comeback Kids: The Jonas Brothers are Back

426

Lost & Found: The Drama of Pop Form with Emily King

427

How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop

428

Top 40 Activism with Justin Tranter

429

What Makes An Award Winning Song?

430

What Makes a Song Sexy?

431

The Deep History of '7 Rings'

432

Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

433

Slay Bells, All Year Long

434

Look What You Made Us Do

435

Entering Beard Phase with Mike Posner

436

How Dirty Projectors Make You Feel Energy (with David Longstreth)

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Stairway To Hell: Greta Van Fleet’s Scorching Album Review That Went Viral

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438

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Love the 90s

439

Sicko Rap and Drunk Country

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440

The Side Effects of Pop Music with Emily Warren

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Drake vs Drake

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442

Summer Heat of the 2000s: Beyoncé and Black Eyed Peas (Pt. II)

443

Summer Heat of the 2000s: Nelly + Katy Perry (Pt. 1)

444

Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?

445

The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets

446

Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Beach Boys

447

The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Hanif Abdurraqib)

448

Afrofuturism in Kali Uchis & Clipping (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes)

449

Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry'

450

Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern)

451

Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL

452

Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies

453

Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation

454

How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

455

808s & Havana Heartbreak

456

My My My! Troye Sivan + Queer Pop (w Gina Delvac, Darryl Bullock)

457

90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth

458

Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis

459

Dua Lipa's Minor Mantra (w Emily Bootle)

460

All I Want for Xmas is a Year in Review Episode

461

Björk's Emotional Landscapes

462

Taylor Constructs A Darker Reputation

463

Unlikely Mashups: Taylor + Cardi B | Clean Bandit + Berlioz

464

Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE deconstructed w. guest Amber Mark

465

Demi Lovato is Not Sorry

466

How to 'Feels' the Groove

467

Anthems of Resilience - Kesha and Imagine Dragons [LIVE]

468

The Many Worlds of "Despacito"

469

Selena Gomez: Bad Liar, Psycho Songwriter

470

Breaking Down Alanis Morissette (and our own Preconceptions) with guest Andrea Warner

471

Morgan Page Reveals the Rule of 3 in Julia Michaels and Maroon 5

472

DJ Khaled - I'm The One... six... four... five

473

Musical Architecture in Charlie Puth + HAIM

474

The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX

475

Harry Styles, Eschatology and Teen Girl Fandom

476

What's to Love About Ed Sheeran? (guest Ross Golan)

477

Zedd + Alessia Cara - Stay (w special guest Grey)

478

Chained to the Green Light: Katy Perry + Lorde

479

Oscar Week!: La La Land ft. Genevieve Koski

480

Zayn, Taylor Swift & The Grammys

481

The Puzzle of Ariana Grande's "Into You" (with K. Flay)

482

Seduced by the Sound: The Weeknd + Daft Punk

483

Dreaming Of A White Christmas

484

How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps

485

Playing it Cool: How Tove Lo Aims High

486

Made In America: Toby Keith & Jay-Z

487

Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal

488

The Most Popular Song In The World

489

Lady Gaga Is A Perfect Illusion

490

How Beyoncé to The Beatles Modulate Your Emotions

491

Pop Drops and Chipmunk Soul

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492

The Gideon and Hubcap Show

493

Breaking Down The House

494

Around The World With Drake

495

When Good Music Happens To Bad People

496

Justin Timberlake Goes Medieval

497

All About Those Baseline Assumptions About Femini$m in Pop

498

Jonas vs. Jonas: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Boy Band

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499

Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé

500

Pablo And The Wolves

501

The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots

502

American Oxygen

503

Say Hey

504

Now I Sia, Now I Don't

505

B Side: Singing With Mama Jan

506

Call Your Girlfriend

507

Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems

508

The Life Changing Magic of Music in 2015

509

Linus & Lucy

510

Same Here

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511

Searching for Max Martin

512

Hotline Hello: Drake and Adele

513

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

514

Justin Bieber’s Existential Suite

515

The Weeknd: Dance of Deception

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516

Let’s Talk About Sax

517

Kacey Musgraves: Transgressing Country

518

Song of Summer: LIVE!

519

The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen

520

One Direction: Our Modern Day Castrati

521

The Final Dropout

522

Hidden Sounds in FourFiveSeconds

523

Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You

524

Hozier’s Waffling of Faith in Take Me To Church

525

Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space

526

A Cappella Dreams

527

Radio Africa

528

Star Spangled

529

Mark Ronson: Funk Politics

530

The Imperative Jingle Bells

531

To Be Young

532

Boom Bang Pow

533

The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift

534

Heartbreak