Latin and Brazilian pop has had a tremendous year in 2022.

To celebrate, Switched On Pop, the podcast about the making and meaning of popular music

will be breaking down our favorite hits from the region.

We'll be talking live with Kelly Ujiz about her viral song, Telepatiya.

We'll be analyzing how bad bunnies of what we can completely ubiquitous, and we'll

be looking at how Anita found a new international audience.

I'm Charlie Harding, the co-host of Switched On Pop.

Subscribe to Switched On Pop and listen to the sounds of Latin and Brazilian pop with

us all December along, brought to you by Total Biverism.

Previously on Today Explained.

The Olympics are experiencing major mayhem right now.

Medical officials in Japan and across the world are clamoring for the Olympics to be canceled.

Since the start of the pandemic, people in Tokyo have been protesting the Olympics, saying

Chushida, Chushi, just stop it.

With the Tokyo Olympics just over 10 weeks away, IOC President Thomas Bach cancelling a plan

trip to Japan, citing the surge of COVID-19 cases there.

Money really talks, and I think that's a good place to start to understand why we're

trying to press your head or why the International Olympic Committee is trying to push your head.

For me, I'm an athlete, and of course my immediate thought is that I'd want to play the

Olympics, but as a human, I would say we're in a pandemic.

Profligate spending, militarization, gentrification, forced evictions, environmental catastrophe.

Why do it at all?

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