The Bridge: Slate Music Club 2024

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Slate Music Club is back, in a special edition of Hit Parade – “The Bridge”! Our year-end panel of critics—NPR Music’s Ann Powers, Hearing Things’ Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Slate’s own Carl Wilson and Hit Parade host Chris Molanphy—discuss their favorite albums and singles and the trends that shaped the year in pop, rap, country, Latin and global music. Among the questions the roundtable tackles: Have we reached peak Taylor Swift? Did the Kendrick Lamar–v.-Drake beef overshadow hip-hop’s next generation? How much further will country cross over to pop audiences—and how does Latin music fit in? How did music from diverse artists stand in for protest music in 2024? And what will become of music criticism itself? Note: Slate Plus members can hear this special episode in full. Ad-supported listeners will hear the first half. Want to hear the whole discussion? Sign up for Slate Plus! Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Chart History.
0:06.3	Welcome to The Bridge.
0:08.7	This is a special episode of Hit Parade the Bridge, a recap of 2024, The Year in Music,
0:28.2	with my colleagues in the Slate Music Club.
0:31.7	We're making this show partially available to all hit parade listeners.
0:36.4	Our Slate Plus members will get the whole show.
0:39.4	What is the Slate Music Club? For more than two decades, Slate convened a panel of critics
0:45.6	at the end of each year to discuss the year in music, the cultural trends that drove the
0:51.3	musical zeitgeist, as well as our favorite albums and singles. We would
0:56.1	share our thoughts in a series of written articles published just before the holidays. This year,
1:02.2	after a brief hiatus, we're bringing the music club back and turning it into a podcast conversation.
1:09.2	We've convened a panel of smart folks to talk about music in
1:13.2	24. Let me introduce our participants, two of whom have graced the bridge before and one
1:20.0	joining us for the first time. First off, making her debut on the bridge, it's Julianne Escobedo
1:26.5	Shepard. She is a writer, editor, and co-founder of
1:29.9	Hearing Things, an independent, worker-owned music publication. They're already doing exciting
1:35.4	stuff, so do check it out. And she is the author of the forthcoming book, Vacera.
1:40.9	Next, of course, it wouldn't be music club without the veteran of the club anne powers anne is a
1:47.1	critic and correspondent for npr music and the author of several books most recently the superlative
1:53.4	traveling on the path of jony mitchell which publishers weekly named as one of the ten best
1:59.7	books of twenty twenty, richly deserved,
2:02.4	by the way. And our host for this musical roundtable is Carl Wilson, Slate's chief music critic.
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