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🗓️ 2 May 2022

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Attention to all the music lovers out there! All month, we're revisiting our best music episodes from It's Been a Minute. In this episode from February 2020, former host Sam Sanders is joined by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding, co-hosts of the podcast Switched On Pop. They break down what makes a song: why certain pop songs become ear worms and what their form and structure mean for the future of music. Sloan and Harding deconstruct songs in their 2020 book, Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works and Why It Matters.

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0:00.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute,
0:01.7	and I'm your guest host, Elise Hugh.
0:03.9	Okay, something we love talking about on this show
0:06.4	is music, of course.
0:08.3	So let's get into summer mode
0:09.9	and talk about some fun tunes this month.
0:12.5	Every Tuesday will be bringing you
0:14.3	a special music episode from the It's Been a Minute Fall.
0:18.2	We're revisiting interviews
0:19.4	with some pretty talented artists.
0:21.4	Once you've heard of, like Phoebe Bridgers and Yeba,
0:24.7	we'll also be talking to people who just love music.
0:27.6	Like this episode's guests,
0:28.9	who talk about songs all day, every day, for a living.
0:33.0	I'm Nate Sloan.
0:34.2	I'm a professor of musicology at USC
0:37.0	and co-host of Switched on Pop with my friend Charlie Hardy.
0:41.4	That was nice.
0:42.2	Great segue.
0:43.2	Nailed it.
0:44.2	Switched on Pop is a podcast about pop music from Vox Media.
0:47.7	Charlie and Nate have hosted the show for years.
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