Drake vs Drake

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Drake, per usual, has been inescapable this summer. "In My Feelings" and "Nice For What" top the charts, but there's depth to these bangers. We argue for hearing one as a meditation on fragile masculinity, the other as a paean to NOLA Bounce. Continue the conversation with us on Instagram and Twitter: @SwitchedOnPop Songs discussed:Drake - In My FeelingsDrake - Nice For WhatLauryn Hill - Ex FactorThe Showboys - Drag Rap (Triggaman)Cameron Paul - Brown BeatCheeky Blakk - Let Me Get That OutchaBeyonce ft. Big Freedia - FormationBig Freedia - Karaoke ft Lizzo 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.
0:35.4	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:37.6	I'm your pal Charlie Harding.
0:38.7	And we are recording live in Los Angeles after a summer of pop hits of your from the
0:45.9	Beach Boys to Beyoncé.
0:47.6	We have many milestones to celebrate one of which is that you actually live in Los Angeles
0:51.7	now and we are going to be doing this in person no longer a long distance relationship.
0:55.9	It's very exciting.
0:56.9	We'll see if the show can survive it.
0:58.7	The other exciting thing is that today we get to talk about probably the biggest tracks
1:02.8	of the summer.
1:04.0	And they're both by Drake.
1:06.1	Drake for a strike.
1:07.1	Yes.
1:08.1	Two of the 500 tracks of his latest album Scorpion.
1:13.3	And we're each going to dig into one of them.
1:15.9	These songs have been inescapable all summer but hopefully you've never thought about them
1:20.3	like this.
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