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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:29.2 | turn supply. Welcome to Switched On Pop, I'm songwriter Charlie Harding. And I'm music |
0:45.2 | ologist Nate Sloan. For the first time in 2023, a rap song is at number one on Billboard's |
0:53.0 | World's Hot 100, StojaCats paint the town red. Given the chart dominance of hip hop over |
1:09.4 | the last 20 years, that's kind of a remarkable stat, Charlie. Yeah, actually built a database of |
1:14.8 | all the hot 100 rap songs in history. There have been 99 now. StojaCat is now the 99th |
1:22.1 | song to go number one, which is a song, predominantly featuring a rap. Do you want to know what the |
1:25.9 | first one was? Desperately. It's not good. Oh, dear. It's not Ice Ice Baby, is it? |
1:41.0 | I know, I know, I know a song with a lot of controversy. Controversy is going to be a big part |
1:47.3 | of our conversation today. With DojaCat, you know, she's just scored her second number one single. |
1:53.2 | She previously went to number one with her more disco pop influence song, say so. |
2:07.7 | And now with paint the town red, the second single off her upcoming album Scarlet, |
2:13.0 | she's finding ways to turn her own personal controversy into musical gold. She's doing it in |
2:19.2 | the same sort of musical continuum of Lil Nas X. That's Lil Nas X's Montero, calling by your name |
2:33.7 | from 2021. And I think that this musical continuum was picked up by Sam Smith and |
2:39.0 | Kempetris in 2023 with her song Unholy. What we're talking about here is, of course, |
2:51.6 | devil worship using devilish imagery to spark online religious controversy. Also to comment on |
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