Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In last month's episode predicting the coming year in pop, one of the team's predictions was that trance music – the ethereal, dreamy subgenre of electronic music popular around the turn of the century – would make a comeback on the charts in 2025. And even though we're less than two months into the year, we're already seeing the tides of nostalgia bring this club-oriented music come back into fashion. This episode of Switched On Pop, Nate, Charlie, and Reanna take a look at trance music: where it came from, what it sounds like, and if we can hear it in two of the year's most anticipated records: The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow and FKA Twigs's EUSEXUA. Does it trance? More Subscribe to our newsletter to receive your own bingo card! Songs Discussed KLF "What Time is Love? (Pure Trance Mix)" Sven Väth "L'Esperanza" Robert Miles "Children" Paul van Dyk "For an Angel" Ian Van Dahl "Castles in the Sky" Tiësto "Adagio for Strings" Darude "Sandstorm" Charlotte De Witte "Universal Consciousness" FKA twigs "Two Weeks" FKA twigs "Cellophane" FKA twigs "Tears in the Club" feat. The Weeknd FKA twigs "EUSEXUA" FKA twigs "Drums of Death" FKA twigs "Perfect Stranger" FKA twigs "Room of Fools" FKA twigs "Childlike Things" The Weeknd "Wake Me Up" feat. Justice The Weeknd "Open Hearts" The Weeknd "The Abyss" feat. Lana Del Rey The Weeknd "Timeless" feat. Playboi Carti The Weeknd "Give Me Mercy" The Weeknd "Red Terror" The Weeknd "Sao Paulo" feat. Anitta The Weeknd "Reflections" feat. Travis Scott & Florence + The Machine The Weeknd "Enjoy the Show" The Weeknd "I Can't Wait to Get There" The Weeknd "Hurry Up Tomorrow" The Weeknd "Blinding Lights" The Weeknd "Save Your Tears" The Weeknd "Until I Bleed Out" The Weeknd "Take My Breath" The Weeknd "Out of Time" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.7	Welcome to Switch to On Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:40.8	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:42.9	And I'm producer Rihanna Cruz.
0:45.2	So I'm sure the two of you know, my DJ alter ego is...
0:50.9	DJ Costanza.
0:52.1	DJ Costanza, exactly.
0:55.6	And I go out a lot. You know, I go to warehouse raves, afters, stuff like that
0:58.3	In L.A., you know, very like unce-unz-oons vibes
1:01.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah
1:02.3	We know what afters are, right, Charlie?
1:06.1	Give me a second to Google that real quick for us
1:09.4	Afters is like an after party?
1:12.5	So think about it this way.
1:13.5	The rave goes to 4 a.m.
1:15.3	Yeah.
1:15.6	The afters go to 7 a.m.
1:17.5	You know what I mean?
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