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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Into It: The Business of Beyoncé 2022-08-05
"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1 2022-08-02
Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog” 2022-07-26
We Won’t Go Back: Pop Music and the Fight For Reproductive Rights (w MILCK and Ann Powers) 2022-07-19
Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns 2022-07-12
ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann) 2022-07-05
Beyoncé's House 2022-06-28
Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his score for "Winning Time" 2022-06-21
Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein 2022-06-16
Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making 2022-06-14
So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next? 2022-06-07
The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy 2022-05-31
Kendrick Lamar and the big samples 2022-05-24
Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true 2022-05-17
Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022? 2022-05-10
Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid" 2022-05-03
The New Alternative 2022-04-26
Jump-starting the creative process with Allison Ponthier 2022-04-19
A Higher Power Ballad 2022-04-12
How sound becomes hearing 2022-04-05
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