The Puzzle of Ariana Grande's "Into You" (with K. Flay)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

"Into You" was one of the biggest hits of 2016, the stellar production of reclusive legend Max Martin combining with the acrobatic vocals of Ariana Grande to create an undeniable, ubiquitous earworm. With "Into You" still burning up the charts, we dive deep to uncover the insane puzzles, Trompe-l'oiel tricks and Baroque games that lie under the surface of this morsel of pop perfection. PLUS, brilliant rocker and rapper K. Flay joins to discuss the mysteries of Ariana Grande and takes us through the composition of her own, bass-heavy anthem of catharsis, "Blood in the Cut." Featuring • Ariana Grande - Into You • K Flay - Blood in the Cut • Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive • J.S. Bach - A little hocket example • Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman • The Chainsmokers - Closer • The Rolling Stones - Can't Get No Satisfaction • The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's some of the most expensive meat in the world, but is it even meat?
0:06.7	This summer, for the first time, Americans are going to be able to try actual chicken meat
0:11.5	that didn't involve killing a chicken.
0:13.6	This episode of Gastropod, we are among the very first people to taste our way through
0:18.0	these brand new lab-grown offerings.
0:20.8	Chicken, hamburger, bacon, salmon, bluefin tuna, we tasted it all.
0:24.3	We wanted to know whether it matches up to the real thing, but we also wanted to know
0:29.0	if it can ever really replace meat from animals.
0:32.4	I'll dimension, keep our planet from going up in smoke.
0:35.3	Find Gastropod wherever you get your podcasts and taste the future.
0:47.2	Welcome to Switched on Pop.
0:49.6	I'm a musicologist Nate Sloan, and I'm songwriter Charlie Harding, and joining me in the studio
0:55.2	is Kay Flay, songwriter, rapper, singer, producer.
1:00.2	We're really lucky to have her with us.
1:02.5	She's going to talk with us about today's topic, Ariana Grande, and then later in the
1:07.0	second half of the show, we'll be talking about her song Blood in the Cut.
1:09.5	Hey guys.
1:10.3	Multi-hyphenate, I think.
1:11.8	It's the phrase.
1:13.3	Multi-hyphenate, I like that.
1:15.0	Put that on my tombstone.
1:16.3	That's okay.
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