The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Hanif Abdurraqib)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Part I: The Doctors Are In! We diagnose a listener's musical malady, namely: "why does Charlie Puth's new jam 'BOY' make us feel so weird?!" Part II: Guest Hanif Adburraqib, author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, helps break down Carly Rae Jepsen's epic "Cut to the Feeling" to understand why CRJ is a different kind of pop star. Featuring: •Charlie Puth - BOY •Ismael Miranda - Recordando •Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Nobody's Baby •The Beatles - She's a Woman •The Cars - Since You're Gone •Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 5 in C Minor, I •Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling Check out more of Hanif's work at his website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First, sweet tarts dare to combine sweet and tart, but they didn't stop there.
0:06.0	Now they've combined soft and bouncy to bring you new sweet tarts, gummy fruity splits.
0:12.0	A uniquely delicious dual-sided gummy with one side that's sweet, and the other side that's tart.
0:19.0	But entirely smooth and squishy.
0:22.0	A powerfully perfect combo.
0:24.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:30.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:33.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:37.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:41.0	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:44.0	And I'm a songwriter, Charlie Harding.
0:46.0	Charlie today is very exciting.
0:48.0	We have a two-part episode.
0:49.0	In the first half, we're going to introduce a new segment called The Doctors Are In,
0:55.0	where we diagnose listeners' musical amalgades.
1:00.0	Great.
1:01.0	And in the second half, we are going to be joined by a very special guest,
1:07.0	the brilliant author, Hannif Abdurakib, to talk about one of our favorite pop stars,
1:13.0	Carly Rae Jepsen.
1:14.0	Oh, fantastic.
1:15.0	So this is an episode of Pure Pop here.
1:19.0	Because for our first segment, The Doctors Are In.
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