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Jul 2024
1h 16m

A Summer Pop Mailbag | Every Single Albu...

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Nora and Nathan open up the mailbag to answer a few questions about our year in pop music so far. They make some predictions about who will win the Big Four Grammy Awards (Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year) (1:00), discuss Kamala Harris's campaign's adoption of "brat summer" (26:47), and debate whether Taylor Swift will rerelease 'Taylor Swift' and 'Reputation' before the end of the Eras Tour (59:22).


Hosts: Nora Princiotti and Nathan Hubbard

Producer: Kaya McMullen

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