Entering Beard Phase with Mike Posner

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike Posner has written hits for himself like "I Took a Pill in Ibiza," and for stars from Justin Bieber ("Boyfriend") to Maroon 5 ("Sugar"), so he has insights for days on what makes a pop song work. We dig into Mike's excellent new track "Song About You," which leads to an exploration of songs that reuse the same melody for verse and chorus—from Prince to The Boss to Post Malone. Last, we consider "beard phase": a moment of artistic reinvention that every artist has in their career, whether you're Mike Posner, Ludwig van Beethoven, or Taylor Swift. Featuring: Mike Posner - Song About You Jean Ritchie - Barbary Allen Original Sacred Harp Singers - New Britain (Amazing Grace) Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover Prince - Let's Go Crazy Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. Post Malone - Rockstar Beethoven - String Quartet No 1 Op. 18/1 Beethoven - String Quartet No 10 Op. 74/III Beethoven - String Quartet "Grosse Fuge" Taylor Swift - Teardrops on My Guitar Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Taylor Swift - ...Ready For It? Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever Dennis Wilson - River Song Peaches ft. Iggy Pop - Kick It 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. I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:37.0	And I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:39.0	And we are very happy to be joined today by a guest you might introduce to yourself.
0:45.0	My name is Mike Posner.
0:46.0	Mike Posner is in the studio.
0:48.0	You may know Mike from his work as a performer.
0:54.0	Songs like Cooler Than Me.
0:56.0	I took a pill in Ibiza and you may not know him as a songwriter of tracks like Boyfriend
1:03.0	by Justin Bieber and Sugar by Maroon 5.
1:06.0	I think this is going to be fun.
1:08.0	We're going to dig into some Mike's new music and then well we'll see where things take us.
1:14.0	But let's begin with a little listening.
1:17.0	Let's listen to some of Mike's new track song about you.
1:22.0	Music
1:34.0	But I used to have been a box in my room.
1:39.0	I don't want to write no song about you.
1:45.0	But you show up in everything that I do.
1:52.0	Music
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