Pop music for an internet-pilled generation

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music, Music Commentary, Music History

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week on Switched On Pop, we’re looking at all things feral pop, the microgenre that takes pop music to its most wild extremes. And no feral pop artist is more tapped into that ethos than underscores. Her music synthesizes dubstep, trance, and Timbaland with ease, and her latest album ‘U’ is filled with boundless energy. She’s already opened up for 100 gecs, PinkPantheress, and Porter Robinson; this fall, she’ll open up for Charli XCX on her upcoming Music, Fashion, Film tour. She said it best on her debut album, Fishmonger: “it’s the new wave of the future!” Links: ⁠Newsletter⁠, ⁠YouTube Songs discussed: underscores – Music SOPHIE – Ponyboy underscores, 8485 – your favorite sidekick Nelly – Country Grammar (Hot Shit) Madonna – Music Madonna – American Life underscores – Do It Britney Spears – Piece of Me PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson – Stateside Justin Timberlake – SexyBack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've all been there.
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1:04.0	slash audio. That's d'eel.com slash audio.
1:18.3	Stage time.com slash audio. Welcome to Switch on Pop.
1:19.8	I'm producer Rihanna Cruz.
1:21.2	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan and I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
1:24.2	This week we're exploring the future of pop music and the sound bubbling up from the underground that I've come to label feral pop for its ability to be essentially undomesticated pop music. Pop that's reverted back to its most wild and primal instincts.
1:40.7	Yeah.
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