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. See
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