90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The 90s are back. It is as if pop music entered a black hole and came out 25 years in the past. Today's artists are reviving the new jack swing and vocal R&B, creating a wave of 90s nostalgia. Uncover how they trick us into somehow loving those days when we got beat up in the middle school parking lot. Spotify 90s Nostalgia playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/switchedonpop/playlist/3beUwxOxzbTZ8M3aymZlg5 Featuring:Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B - FinesseCharlie Puth ft. Boyz II Men - If You Leave me NowGuy - Groove MeEternal - StayBell Biv Devoe - PoisonCardi B - Bodack YellowChristopher Williams - I'm DreaminBoyz II Men - MotownphillyBoyz II Men - On Bended KneeHamilton - The Room Where It Happened Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:30.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:35.3	I'm a songwriter, Charlie Harding, and I'm a musicologist, Nate Sloan.
0:39.4	Nate, I have a seemingly easy question for you.
0:42.0	Okay, I feel like this is going to be a really difficult but shoot.
0:46.1	What decade is it?
0:47.4	It is, I can do this, I got this.
0:49.4	Okay, it is definitely the 2010s.
0:54.1	No, you're wrong.
0:55.8	It's the 90s.
0:57.9	You need to fast forward to 25 years in the past because you may not know it, it's the
1:02.8	90s.
1:04.0	If you're still watching stranger things or haven't gotten over Carly Rae Jeppeson's
1:09.7	emotion, you might think that we're stuck in the 80s but you're wrong because there
1:17.2	have been hints of 90s culture permeating for a few years but two tracks that popped
1:23.2	up at the beginning of 2018 have planted us firmly in the decade that declared the
1:28.6	end of history.
1:29.6	Are you ready to go back in time when they let's do it?
1:32.4	Take me there.
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