Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your 100 on my wrist, 80 on my wrist,

80 on my wrist, of music criticism.

I'm John Karamanca, pop music critic in the New York Times.

I'm Joke Australia. I'm a pop music reporter at the New York Times. Let the kids begin. Let the kids begin.

The duck begins.

Let duck it begin.

I see how this is going to go.

Joe.

Politics season is Nye.

Nye.

I mean, it's over us.

It's in front and behind us.

We are suffused with it.

We are infused with it.

It's been a particularly active run of the last few months of

musicians choosing to get involved with political campaigns, choosing to distance

themselves from political campaigns,

perhaps being encouraged to be involved

with political campaigns.

I don't know, outside of the kind of like boomerism

in the 90s of people like riding the Clinton wave or whatever. I don't really feel like I've ever remembered an election cycle where there has been so much intersection with popular music and the center of popular music's fear and frankly both

candidates. Often you have musicians align themselves typically on the

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