Zayn, Taylor Swift & The Grammys

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

"I Don't Wanna Live Forever," the new track from Zayn and Taylor Swift, finds two members of the pop pantheon joining forces with producer Jack Antonoff to craft an inexorable hit song. But this duet—between a former One Direction heartthrob aiming to avert the sophomore slump and a megastar returning to the limelight—is far from triumphant. Instead, "Forever" delves into themes of loss and separation—emotions in turn embedded in the very structure and melody of this most unusual duet. Also, Charlie and Nate discuss what upcoming Grammy nominations have them most excited, From Chance the Rapper to Radiohead, Bowie to Solange, there's much to celebrate from 2016. Musically speaking, that is. Featuring: • Zayn & Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever • Giovanni Gabrieli - Symphoniae Sacrae II • Solange - Cranes in the Sky • Chance the Rapper - All We Got • David Bowie - Lazarus • Radiohead - Burn the Witch • Tycho - Glider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're still in love.
0:05.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:09.1	I'm songwriter Charlie Arring.
0:10.3	And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:13.7	So in a two of our biggest episodes, we're about one direction and Taylor Swift.
0:18.1	They got a lot of listeners really excited.
0:21.1	And this bizarre thing has happened.
0:22.9	Zane from One Direction and Taylor Swift have collaborated on a duet for the soundtrack
0:28.3	for The Fill with 50 Shades of Grey.
0:30.3	Wow.
0:31.3	World's colliding.
0:32.3	So what I want to do in the top half of the episode is break down the song, see what's
0:35.2	happening, see if it really is the big hit that it is made out to be doing really well
0:40.1	in the Billboard charts right now.
0:41.6	And then second half of the episode, we've got the Grammy's coming up.
0:44.8	And I thought it would be really fun to dive into some of the unlikely things that we're
0:48.6	really excited to hear that might not be getting a lot of coverage.
0:51.6	So we'll do that in the second half.
0:52.6	All right.
0:53.6	Well, we're not going to live forever, Charlie.
0:54.9	Let's get going.
0:58.3	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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