Popcast Live! Counting Down Our Favorite Music Moments of 2024

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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A final look back at some of our favorite characters, trends and micro-moments of 2024, recorded live at S.O.B.’s in New York in December. Plus: IRL listener mailbag!Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, you are, and did of music, news, and criticism.
0:09.0	I'm John Caramonica, the critic at the New York Times.
0:11.3	I'm Joe Kaskarelli. I'm a reporter at the New York Times.
0:14.5	Joe, 2024, awful year. Terrible year.
0:22.3	I had a good year. Perverseverse it's a perverse thing to say
0:25.1	it has been a chaotic year especially in pop music
0:28.8	a number of people have emerged from the ether
0:31.9	who we could not have predicted 12 months ago
0:34.8	people who we thought maybe would dominate the year, where are they?
0:39.7	Not here.
0:41.1	No, certainly not here.
0:43.2	They're absolutely not with us at SOBs.
0:45.8	It's a real confusing time.
0:50.1	Everybody's fatigued.
0:50.9	Are you all fatigued of lists?
0:54.5	We're going to make a list in real time.
0:56.5	Yeah, yeah, because we have one last list for everybody.
0:59.5	We're going to do the 10 most meaningful music moments of pop in 2024.
1:05.6	We're going to run those down.
1:07.1	They're sort of, I would say they're non-ordinal.
1:10.0	I would say they're non-ordinal. Mine are in order.
1:12.2	Mine are not in order. Joe did the homework. Sorry. I didn't do it. Mine are in five to one order.
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