Pop music can make you smarter

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Vox takes culture seriously. Our coverage of movies, TV, books, and music delves deep into what our cultural touchstones reveal about who we are and what we care about — and how what we consume influences our world in turn. That's why I'm so excited to introduce you to Switched on Pop. It's a podcast that digs into both the musical theory and the cultural context of pop music, and it's now part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. As a big fan of the show, I wanted to introduce you to the hosts, Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding. In this bonus episode you'll hear some of their favorite interviews, as they pull back the curtain on how pop hits work their magic. Subscribe to Switched on Pop wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the client show on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:14.7	This is a special mini episode and it's a mini episode to introduce you to Switched
0:19.6	on Pop, which is going to be a new podcast in the Vox Podcast Pantheon.
0:24.5	Among the missions that we talk about internally is a sort of two-sided mission around what
0:29.6	people like to call hard news and soft news.
0:32.2	So hard news is like healthcare and what's going on overseas.
0:37.0	This stuff that we often think of as important, but it's complex and boring.
0:42.3	When it comes to hard news, our mission at Vox has been, it's not complex, it's clear
0:47.2	if you understand it.
0:48.2	It's not boring, it's important.
0:50.5	If you do it right, you can feel it.
0:53.8	It actually is interesting.
0:54.8	I think I tried to do that, hopefully, occasionally with success on this podcast.
0:59.5	We have this other side of it too, which is on the cultural side, the soft news side,
1:03.9	arts, music, etc.
1:05.5	Taking things that often are not seen as important but are seen as intuitively appealing.
1:09.0	It's like the opposite.
1:10.5	People believe that they're interesting, but they don't believe they deserve a lot of serious
1:14.2	inquiry.
1:15.2	And say, no, no, they are important.
1:17.4	They're reflecting important parts of our culture.
1:19.4	They're reflecting important parts of ourselves or reflecting important parts of what is
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