![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. NPR's Ari Shapiro spoke with Sloan and Harding about a few of those concepts and the music that accompanies them, including songs by Carly Rae Jepsen, Taylor Swift and Luis Fonsi.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Switched on Pop Subtitle How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters Author Nate Sloan, Charlie Harding, et al Each chapter studies a basic principle of music through one omnipresent song. ![]() They launched a podcast called Switched on Pop, and now they have a book by the same name. They started dissecting big pop hits the way they might study jazz or classical. "I think, by explaining some of these musical concepts, all the sudden I was able to hear the song in a way I wasn't able to beforehand," Harding says. Then, on a road trip, they heard "Call Me Maybe," Carly Rae Jepsen's 2012 earworm, and decided to lean into their backgrounds to try to understand the craft of the song. Now, the co-hosts have authored a new book.Ĭharlie Harding, a songwriter, and Nate Sloan, a musicologist, used to be snobby about pop music. 2012's song of the summer, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe," inspired the popular music podcast Switched on Pop. ![]()
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