Switched on Pop

Vox Media

Listen closer to pop music, and hear how it moves us. Hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding. From Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Episodes

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Switched On Pop on Netflix July 14th

Music only the World Cup could make

Why we can't resist Swedish pop (ft. Zara Larsson) ICYMI

2hollis is the underground’s genre-hopping vampire

Pop music for an internet-pilled generation

The new wave of pop is here, and it’s feral

Olivia Rodrigo has The Cure for sadness

Paul McCartney went back to Liverpool for something new to say

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

MUNA's end of the world dance party

Drake's Slop Era

Kacey Musgraves walks country’s borderlands

Rostam reshapes America in his own image

Eurovision is back – but not without controversy

Samara Cyn is rap's best new writer

Olivia Rodrigo and the second verse massacre

Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.

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

Ten years of "Alaska": Maggie Rogers on going viral and singing for 200,000 protestors