Learning to love the Killers (maybe)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Are you like Nate? Is there one artist that, every time you hear them, you can't help it—you start to grimace, sweat, seethe. You can't explain it, but there's something about them that you just. can't. stand. For Nate, that band is the Killers. Lots of people love this band, they've been around for almost two decades, they're practically an institution! So why can't he get past his hang up? Charlie and Reanna step in to help break down what it is about the Killers that rankles their normally open-eared colleague so, and then step back to consider what it is that makes us think we hate the bands we do—and whether we can change those opinions. Songs Discussed The Killers - Human, All These Things That I've Done, When You Were Young, Mr. Brightside, Deadlines and Commitments, Where the White Boys Dance, boy, Shot at the Night, The Man, Tranquilize Ariana Grande and Zedd - Break Free Erasure - A Little Respect Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The new original series, Tulsa King.
0:02.3	What's it Mafia, Capo?
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0:04.6	Starring Silvestre Stallone.
0:06.0	If you don't figure that out, you'll be the second one to know.
0:08.3	Tulsa King, new series now streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus.
0:12.2	Go to ParamountPlus.com to try it for free.
0:27.6	Welcome to Switch, Dom Pop.
0:29.0	I'm a musicologist, Nate Sloan, and I'm songwriter, Charlie Harding.
0:33.0	And I'm producer, Rihanna Cruz.
0:34.4	Charlie, Rihanna, making this show low these many years.
0:39.6	I feel like I've become a more kind of responsible listener.
0:44.6	And what I mean by that is I always try to come to music with open ears.
0:50.1	I try to be accepting, try to leave my preconceptions at the door.
0:55.1	You're good listening, Samaritan.
0:57.1	Growth.
0:57.8	Charlie, I remember something we said when we wrote our book.
1:00.9	They're just saying, if you want to know someone, walk a mile in their shoes, what did we
1:05.4	say, Charlie?
1:06.6	If you want to know someone, listen for a mile in their ears, that's not right.
1:13.7	No, we said listen.
1:14.7	What have I been sitting for an hour through their ears?
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