Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Why do so many songs sound familiar? Because the number of chart topping interpolations — songs built off of old hits — has roughly doubled in the five years. It’s everywhere, you can’t escape because many people are embracing it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switch Done Pop.
0:14.0	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:18.0	The other night I'm watching the Jerry Brook climber Tom Cruise, Top Gun franchise reboot
0:22.8	film, Top Gun Maverick.
0:25.0	And there's this scene where they're playing beach volleyball to team bonding montage.
0:30.8	It's scored by this song.
0:33.2	I ain't worried by one republic.
0:37.5	And I'm thinking I know that vibe.
0:49.0	I think it's the whistle that alerts me to the fact that this might be something I've
0:55.8	heard before.
0:56.8	Where have I heard that whistle Charlie?
0:58.3	It immediately took me to Peter Bjorn in John's song Young Folks from 2006.
1:13.6	That song seemed to have launched a whole indie whistling vibe that took over popular
1:19.5	music for a minute.
1:20.5	I mean, check out Edward Sharp in the Magnetic Zero's home.
1:24.6	We're tightened up by the black keys.
1:41.4	One year later, Foster The People put up pumped up kicks 2010.
1:54.0	What a fascinating mini trend you're elucidating here.
1:59.2	So this vibe, this sort of indie rock whistle trend runs its course by the early 2010s.
2:07.6	But now a decade later, it's back.
2:10.9	This one republic song has gone to number 12 on the hot 100.
2:15.4	It is very much playing on nostalgia, as is the film which it's soundtracking.
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