Comeback Kids: The Jonas Brothers are Back

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

After a six year hiatus, Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas are back with a new single and the stakes couldn't be higher. With each brother attaining a higher plane of celebrity during their time off, the three must achieve pop success or face public humiliation. How do they do it? With three ingredients that ensure a hit song in 2019: 1) whistle while you work, 2) Homer the funky drummer, and 3) tune in, turn in, drop out. Songs Featured: Jonas Brothers – SuckerEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – HomeFlo Rida – WhistleDaya – Sit Still Look PrettySharon Jones – How Long do I Have to Wait for you?Bruno Mars – 24k MagicEmily King – Remind MeJason Derulo – Want to Want MeRina Sawayama – CherryPost Malone and Swae Lee – SunflowerSurvey We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than three minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3X6WMNF 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.
0:14.9	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:21.9	Switch on pop and box media are conducting a short annual survey and it would be a lot
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0:40.1	to fill it out.
0:41.3	Thanks and now on to the show.
0:46.3	Welcome to Switched on pop.
0:56.7	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan and I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
1:00.2	Charlie, today under discussion the art of the comeback.
1:04.2	Oh, this is exciting.
1:05.2	Yeah, and this is a high stakes comeback because we're talking about a big pop act that
1:10.3	has been broken up for like six years now, releasing their first new single and they
1:17.1	got to come correct, right?
1:18.4	It's the grateful dad.
1:19.4	It's going to be embarrassing if this is a trio.
1:23.4	Oh, okay.
1:24.4	So that narrows it down a bit.
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