So when I was a teenager, I was going through many emotional teenage heartbreaks as we tend to do and

whenever I was I had a girlfriend and I you had a girlfriend

I had a couple of girlfriends but not that many but when I did and I knew the relationship was coming to an end

I would write a song and I would try to express my love

and it always failed and so I always regretted ever writing songs for anybody that play it for them

and I'd be expressing my love and you could see it on their face and they would be so sad

they were mostly just sad for me and the embarrassment that I was going through and that is

exquisitely awkward to picture. It's terrible and in so many cases I don't even really remember

how it ended and it would have but I can definitely if I play that song today a decade later and by the

way my late 20s and I'm married but I can still feel that teenage heartbreak that angst and just

uh that terrible feeling. What is it about music that can connect us to that feeling of heartbreak so

immediately and so palpably? I think that's an interesting question I think that's what brings us

here today why don't you kick it off and tell us what's going on? Well I'm Nate Sloan, I'm Charlie

Harding and this is switched on pop. Our aim is to take hop hits and break them down to try and

understand why these songs are so successful and so popular because other people who talk about pop

music don't tend to talk about the music they tend to talk about the clothes, the love of fairs

everything else except the music that we all listen to and we're going to try and rectify that

because these songs are brilliant you don't get to the top of the charts without knowing what you're

doing and we're going to try and figure out exactly what that is. So we're going to use the tools

of the musicologist and of the songwriter to celebrate appreciate and investigate what's going

on underneath the hood of these infectious earworm pop songs. Starting with the mother of all heart

break songs, Adele's someone like you. So what I think is really interesting about Adele is that

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