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Switched on Pop

Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Canadian Electro-Funk duo CHROMEO have made consistently funky, highly danceable music for twenty years. They’ve released five studios albums, done the Coachella festival circuit and have been nominated for a Grammy for their sound that’s been compared to Prince, Zapp and Hall and Oates. Now with their latest album, Adult Contemporary, they are challenging preconceptions of adult contemporary music by redefining its whole meaning. Sign up for the Switched On Pop Newsletter Songs discussed CHROMEO - (I Don't Need A) New Girl, BTS, Coda, Fancy Footwork, Needy Girl, Replacements, Clorox Wipe, Six Feet Away Dolly Parton - Nine to Five Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' on but the Rent Kenny G - Songbird, You're Beautiful Kenny Loggins - This Is It Kenny Rodgers - We've Got Tonight, You And I Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Michael Bublé - Home Michael Jackson - Human Nature, Working Day and Night NWA - Straight Outta Compton Steely Dan - Black Cow, Ricky Don't Lose That Number, Time Out of Mind The Bee Gees - Staying Alive Toto - I'll be Over You Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for Switch Stumpopopopop comes from Vibe Check.

0:02.0

If you need more of my friend Sam Sanders in your life,

0:05.0

then you'll want to check out his new pod called Vibe Check.

0:08.0

Each week, Sam and his two best friends, writer Saeed Jones,

0:12.0

and journalist and producer Zach Stafford

0:14.7

makes sense of what's going on in the news and culture from foreign policy

0:20.4

to how to heal from a breakup every Wednesday they check the vibe of what's

0:24.7

going on in the world and how it all feels. It's like your favorite group

0:27.9

chat come to life. Listen to and follow vibe check wherever you get your

0:32.2

podcasts. Switch Adult Contemporary. Two of the most maligned words and music,

0:54.4

could there be anything less cool

0:56.1

than being Adult and Contemporary?

0:59.6

It's basically in opposition to being young and present.

1:03.5

Like you have to claim your space and time.

1:05.0

I swear, I'm old but I'm still relevant.

1:07.8

Let me explain.

1:08.7

Adult contemporary, originally known as Easy Listening,

1:12.2

was a radio format that comes about in the 1960s as an alternative to the emergent sounds of rock and roll.

1:18.0

It played music that was slower, love ballads, clean and conservative, basically a safe musical vibe so that parents

1:27.5

could hear Frank Sinatra's my way.

1:30.1

While there are teenagers on another radio station could hear the who's my generation.

1:38.2

And in the 70s as the counterculture grows up so does rock and roll in

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