Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Host Charlie spent the last two weeks listening to every song on the Billboard Hot 100. What did he discover? That the sonic similarities of most chart-toppers sound closer than ever. Except for the #1 song in America, as of this episode's release - "Closer" by The Chainsmokers, ft. Halsey. This one is different than the rest...or is it? We dive into the styles of the moment to re-learn the old maxim that "great artists steal" - whether that artist is a 2016 DJ duo or an 18th century Classical master. Featuring: •Tory Lanez - LUV •Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better •Frenship - Capsize •Maroon 5 - Don't Wanna Know •Cheat Codes - Sex •The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey - Closer •Charlie Puth ft. Selena Gomez - We Don't Talk Anymore •Jack U ft. Justin Bieber - Where Are U Now •Drake - Know Yourself •Amine - Caroline •MO - Final Song •Mike Posner - I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Seeb remix) •The Weeknd - I Can't Feel My Face •The Chainsmokers ft. Phoebe Ryan - All We Know •Antonio Vivaldi - "La Primavera" Concerto •Vivaldi - Giustino •Vivaldi - Dorilla in Tempe •Vivaldi - Orlando Furioso Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	So Nate, when you ask me to put together an episode this week about something happening
0:34.4	on the charts, I have to admit that I kind of struggled.
0:40.8	Nothing catching your interest there. Well, you know there's the old cliche of too many things
0:46.0	on the radio sound the same. Yeah, yeah, that's every generation has, I think, said that for the
0:52.7	last 100 years. I was feeling it really strongly recently. You're in a pop music on We.
1:00.0	You know, a lot of what we do is often finding trends of things that are going on. But when I went
1:05.9	for my first listen of just what's happening in the world of popular music, I heard everybody
1:10.8	making the exact same rhythmic variation of a dance song. We are having a moment. So here's just
1:17.6	a couple of examples. We've got Love by Torrey Lanes.
1:30.4	This is Truth You Better by Sean Mendez.
1:45.7	Interesting.
1:46.7	This is CapSize by Friendship.
2:16.7	No way. This is Don't Want to Know by Maroo Five.
2:47.3	And this is Sex by Chaco's.
2:56.0	This is
3:13.6	Everybody's copy.
3:14.7	Wait, Charlie, this is Blum. I mean, these are all like top 100 songs right now.
3:19.4	Yeah, and they basically all have the exact same rhythm.
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