All I Want for Xmas is a Year in Review Episode

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Charlie and Nate breakdown Mariah Carey's classic "All I Want for Christmas is You" and revisit their favorite tracks of 2017. Sleigh bells abound. Featuring • Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas • Laura Marling - Semper Femina • Lorde - Melodrama • Khalid - Location • Dua Lipa - New Rules • Logic - Everybody / 1-800-273-8255 • Childish Gambino - Redbone • Sampha - (No One Knows Me) Like the piano in my mothers house • Father John Misty - Pure Comedy • Jay-Z: 4:44 • Perfume Genius - No Shape • Aimee Mann - Mental Illness And more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Fox Creative.
0:22.6	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear further lives
0:26.6	and the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:30.2	The UK government pledged to take in 20,000 of them as refugees.
0:34.5	But in the first year, only 22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:39.4	So what happened?
0:40.6	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:44.2	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:47.4	Subscribe now.
0:48.5	Welcome to Switched on Pop.
0:55.5	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan and I have a songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:59.6	Charlie, there are some things in this world that we can set our clocks to, right?
1:05.9	The sun rises and sets the tides, eb and flow.
1:10.4	Stars are born and die and fiery novas.
1:14.3	And there's one other event in the universe that occurs with inexorable power.
1:20.3	And that is that every December, Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas is you will be inescapable.
1:29.9	I don't want a lot for Christmas.
1:33.9	There is just one thing I need.
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