90s Music Canon

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Matt Daniels, editor of the publication The Pudding, wanted to find out what songs from his youth would last into the future. So he designed a study that would test if Gen-Z had a grip on 90s culture. Hundreds of thousands of participants provided over 3 million data points. Daniels parsed through the data for insights. Sadly, the majority of his most beloved songs have not survived even one generation. Though most had been forgotten, he found that just a few songs had staying power across generations — what he defined as the emerging 90s music canon. Find out what songs make it and which have fallen to the wayside. MORE The Pudding’s study on Defining the 90s Canon Take The Pudding’s quiz yourself SONGS DISCUSSED Spice Girls - Wannabe Mariah Carey - Fantasy! Lou Bega - Mambo #5 Los Del Rio - Macarena Boys II Men - Motown Philly Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You Savage Garden - I Want You The Barenaked Ladies - One Week Jewel - You Were Meant For Me Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On Britney Spears - Baby One More Time Smash Mouth - All Star Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switched Up Pop, I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:15.5	And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:17.6	Nate, I want you to take me back to your childhood.
0:21.2	Okay, it's Manhattan.
0:23.6	It's 1995.
0:26.2	I'm playing pickup basketball in Central Park, just getting dominated, just getting
0:32.7	schooled.
0:34.7	But I comfort myself by listening on my walkman to the first CD I ever bought from the
0:43.1	H&B and 86th Street.
0:45.4	And that of course is Seale's Kiss from a Rose.
0:48.8	It's a beautiful song.
1:04.9	I love this track.
1:05.9	I love a question for you.
1:08.7	Yeah.
1:09.7	Do you think that the next generation, Gen Z, are they going to remember this song?
1:15.2	Oh man, I hope so because this is one of the strangest and most wonderful pop songs
1:23.2	that I can recall.
1:25.6	But I don't know if a Gen Z or it would be like, yeah, Kiss from a Rose or if they'd be
1:31.0	like, what are you playing me right now?
1:34.4	So I can actually tell you with some data.
1:36.7	A friend of ours, Matt Daniels from the publication The Putting, put together this really
1:42.0	cool study that looks at the canon of 90s popular music, he surveyed a ton of people to
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