Is There An Indie Rock Conspiracy? (Featuring Joywave)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Many people write us with musical maladies and conspiracies. A recent one caught our attention. Daniel Armbruster, lead vocalist of indie band Joywave, has been hearing the same melody in tracks across the Alternative Songs charts. He believes that this hook could be the secret to securing a spot on the Billboard 100. Nate and Charlie investigate this issue, traveling from the contemporary charts all the way back to a fundamental musical scale. The stakes are high: is it possible to hack your way into a hit alt-rock song? Songs Discussed Young The Giant - SuperpositionCold War Kids - FirstSir Sly - &RunJoywave, KOPPS - TonguesMaroon 5 - Moves Like JaggerLady Gaga - Bad Romance AJR - Burn the House DownTwenty One Pilots - ChlorineThe Black Keys - Lo/HiBillie Eilish - Bury A FriendCatfish and the Bottlemen - LongshotCage The Elephant - Ready To Let GoPanic! At The Disco - High HopesSHAED - TrampolineOliver Tree - HurtThe Lumineers - Ho Hey 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.
0:36.3	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:40.0	Today Nate, we have a musical melody.
0:43.1	Our friend Rob Bonstein who's been a long time friend of the show brought to us another
0:48.8	friend who had a musical issue that needed solving.
0:53.4	And it goes extremely deep and I needed your ear.
0:57.7	Whoa, all right.
0:58.7	I'm intrigued.
0:59.7	Let's jump right in.
1:00.7	Hi, my name is Daniel Armberser.
1:03.1	I'm the lead singer of HIT alternative rock group Joy Wave.
1:08.0	So you have some sort of wild theory about all rock, is that right?
1:11.5	Yes, I don't know what to call it.
1:14.4	It's unique to alternative music.
1:17.5	This is not 100% true but I would say it feels like 60% true that like any song that
1:23.7	goes like top 10 at radio or like number one does this thing where the do do do do do do
1:30.7	do like anything of do do do do do do.
1:34.4	It has that somewhere in the song like in the chorus it's like a quote unquote catch
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