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Feb 2024
24m 23s

All About That Bass: How pop became obse...

DALLAS TAYLOR
About this episode
If you listen to vintage music, one of the first things you’ll notice is the complete lack of bass. But turn on a Top 40 station today, and you’ll hear song after song with deep, sub-ratting bass tones. So how and why did this change happen? For this episode, we worked with OnePlus to tell the story of our collective obsession with bass, and the one device t ... Show More
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