Post Malone has us Running in Circles

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Post Malone has confounded your hosts since he emerged on the scene, so this week we sit down to try and get to the bottom of our cycles of attraction and repulsion through deep analysis of his current hit, "Circles." Along the way, we discuss trenchant questions such as: How is the minor IV always the saddest of all chords? Why does Posty tend to sound like a certain ruminant mammal? And, what happens when you plug Tchaikovsky into a Wu Tang name generator? Songs Discussed: Post Malone - Circles, Rockstar, Stay, Congratulations, Candy Paint, Fleetwood Mac - Landslide Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 6, Finale And don't forget to enter the Wu Tang Name Generator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop, I'm a musicologist, Nate Sloan, and I'm songwriter, Charlie
0:17.5	Harding.
0:18.5	I'm a music.
0:43.5	What's up Bob Dylan?
0:44.8	Yeah, but what Bob Dylan, let's not Bob Dylan.
0:46.5	Who's that?
0:47.5	You're right, this is a song by Bob Dylan called.
0:50.9	Don't think twice it's all right.
0:51.9	Yeah, beautiful song.
0:52.9	Yeah, it's got that nice little descending harmony line.
0:55.9	What do you think of this performance?
0:58.1	Yeah, it's convincing.
0:59.1	It's good, right?
1:00.3	Yeah, I mean, the guitar line had me sure that this must just be an old bootleg of Bob
1:08.0	Dylan.
1:09.0	But the vocal is too tinny and actually maybe slightly more in tune than Bob might be.
1:16.4	What if I told you we were listening to Austin Richard, aka Post Malone.
1:23.2	The show's over.
1:25.0	You have a complicated relationship to one post Malone.
1:28.0	I have, yeah.
1:29.0	Yeah, we're going to explore that today.
1:30.9	Oh, you're going to lie down on the couch and we're going to get to the root of your
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