Made In America: Jay-Z & Toby Keith ICYMI

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In case you missed it rerun from 2016. Back in 2011, two pop songs dropped with the same patriotic title: "Made in America." But the similarities pretty much end there. Toby Keith's country smash and Jay Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean's soulful hip hop anthem have little in common except a firm conviction that each song knows what it really means to be American. Five years later, these tracks have a lot to tell us about the role music plays in shaping our national identity, and begs the question: does music truly bring us together? Music Discussed Toby Keith - Made In America Jay Z and Kanye West ft. Frank Ocean - Made in America Sisqo - Thong Song Usher - Yeah! Beyoncé - Daddy Lessons Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 9 Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys - Ida Red Likes to Boogie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.9	Charlie, if there's one thing we know about music, it's that music is universal.
0:33.3	Music crosses boundaries and brings people together.
0:38.2	I mean, it's magical, right?
0:39.7	Yeah, of course, it feels like it's sent down from the divine,
0:42.2	so that all our hands are reaching around the world,
0:44.0	taking kumbaya together, right?
0:45.7	But whenever I turn on the news these days,
0:48.8	I do not see a country whose boundaries have been erased,
0:52.4	and everyone is brought together.
0:53.6	I see a country that's divided and disunited,
0:56.3	and pitted against one another, yeah.
0:58.7	And it makes me wonder, does music really have this role
1:02.8	of erasing boundaries and bringing people together,
1:05.2	or does maybe in its own way,
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