Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Earth Day 2021 gives us the chance to pause our usual programming and consider the role pop music plays in our deepening climate emergency. On Side A, we listen to artists who have confronted the climate crisis head-on. Side B considers the environmental cost of streaming music with Kyle Devine, author of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music. Songs Discussed: George Pope Morris - Woodman, Spare That Tree! Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) Tower of Power - Only So Much Oil in the Ground Various Artists - Love Song for the Earth Anohni - 4 Degrees The Weather Station - The Robber DJ Cavem - Sprout That Life Learn more about the environmental impact of NFTs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:49.4	I'm a musicologist, Nate Sloan.
0:51.6	And I'm a songwriter, Charlie Harding.
0:53.3	So I'm writing a Charlie Harding, it's Earth Day.
0:55.8	Yes.
0:56.6	Well, okay, it's two days until Earth Day, but it's close.
1:00.3	And I want to celebrate by doing a two-parter, where in the first half we'll listen to songs
1:08.4	of environmental activism and awareness and think about how contemporary musicians are
1:13.9	responding to the climate crisis.
1:16.5	And in the second half, I'm going to sit down with the author Kyle Devine, whose book
1:20.2	Decomposed Explorers the Energy Costs of Consuming Music since the dawn of recording, including
1:27.2	the hidden costs of streaming.
1:29.1	Okay, interesting, self-important.
1:30.8	But before we can think about how modern musicians are referencing the environment in their
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