brat but it's a podcast about the album by CharliXCX
CharliXCX's latest album, brat, has created an internet fever dream. This club record celebrating messiness, partying, and brutal honesty has created its own color (brat green), a viral meme generator...
6 Aug 202439min
Why Chappell Roan is the sound of 2024
For months, listeners have been peppering us with the same question: “When are you going to cover Chappell Roan?” We genuflect, then respond, “We interviewed her back in 2023!" The people don’t care. ...
30 Jul 202432min
Is country the new hip hop?
For decades, hip hop has been the most successful genre on the charts. Then, in 2023, a shift occurred. For the first time, the country songs outnumbered hip hop songs on the year end charts. Last yea...
23 Jul 202435min
The music industry's AI fight
The Verge's Nilay Patel and David Pierce chat with Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding about the RIAA lawsuit against Al music startups Udio and Suno. Later, Nilay and David discuss the rest of this wee...
19 Jul 202449min
Switched-On Wendy Carlos
The synthesizer was invented in the 1890s. But for people to really start using it, it took half a century, a musician named Wendy Carlos, and an album called Switched-On Bach. Charlie Harding and Nat...
17 Jul 202437min
The song of the summer is DEAD with Today Explained
Long live the song of the summer with Today Explained. But wait! Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding disagrees. And Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos says maybe it never existed at all. This episode was p...
15 Jul 202426min
Lawrence: the kick-ass eight-piece family band reshaping the music business
In today’s volatile music industry, many artists struggle to navigate the pitfalls of touring, the whims of social media, and the inequity of exploitative contracts. But Lawrence, an eight-piece band ...
9 Jul 202449min
The Imperfect Feminine: Camila, Charli, and Sabrina
The first half of 2024 has been for the “pop girlie.” It seems like every major artist who’s dominated the discourse this year has been a woman, ostensibly making music about what it means to be a wom...
2 Jul 202446min
