Still Freaky After All These Years: Gaga, Tyler, The Cure

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A musical "freak," to us here at Switched On Pop, is an artist who is unique, non-conforming, and always manages to surprise. We're living in some freaky times right now, so there's no better way to honor that than to listen to pop's freakiest artists. The past few weeks have seen new releases from Lady Gaga, Tyler, the Creator, and The Cure – the latter releasing their first new album in sixteen years. This episode of Switched On Pop, we unpack these songs and get to the bottom of their freakiness. Songs discussed: Lady Gaga – Disease Tyler, The Creator – Noid The Cure – Alone More Subscribe to Jesse Cannon Music Marketing Trends newsletter Follow Jesse Cannon Musformation YouTube channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.0	welcome to switched on pop I'm songwriter Charlie Harding. And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:58.8	And I'm producer, Rianna Cruz. I think it's fair to say that we're living in some freaky times right now.
1:04.4	And so I think there's no better moment than to listen to some of the most legendary freaks in music. Lady Gaga, Tyler
1:15.0	the creator, and The Cure have all dropped some new music. And I don't mean freaks pejoratively,
1:21.3	by the way. A freak to me is someone who's unique, non-conforming, someone who's not afraid to be
1:26.7	vulnerable and redefine some norms.
1:30.2	And today I have with me my expert panel of freaky music lovers.
1:35.5	Nate Sloan, will you kick us off listening to Lady Gaga?
1:38.6	Charles Rihanna, we got to let our freak flags fly and spin the chorus of lady gaga's latest single disease
1:48.8	i can cure your disease if you were a friend and i could make you believe Cool
2:11.3	Quite freaky
2:12.5	I feel like we just did our Halloween episode
2:15.7	And it's a shame we weren't able to to put this in the
2:19.5	mix because this song true to its title is all about disease we hear gaga singing that chorus
2:27.5	eyes roll back in ecstasy i can smell your sickness i I can cure your disease.
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