The song of the summer is DEAD with Today Explained

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Long live the song of the summer with Today Explained. But wait! Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding disagrees. And Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos says maybe it never existed at all. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Be sure to subscribe to Today Explained. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switch Dawn Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding. This week we're bringing
0:16.8	you three collaborative podcasts. First, how the song of Summer died, with Today Explained.
0:24.7	On Wednesday we'll be talking about the origins of the synthesizer and this very
0:28.0	podcast through the music of Wendy Carlos on the show This is Love.
0:32.2	And on Friday, or on vergecast talking AI and music how
0:36.1	bad is it and is it possible that AI music copyright lawsuits could upend the entire
0:42.3	artificial intelligence industry.
0:44.3	Those are our three stories.
0:45.2	First, the death of the song of Summer on Today explained,
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1:33.8	I got a theory.
1:35.0	I think the song of the summer is dead.
1:37.8	Let's wind it back to 2003.
1:41.8	This song was inescapable. Sometimes it still is.
1:47.6	A few years later, another banger with Beyoncé's husband, then Black-Eyed Pease, Carly Ray, blurred lines, one dance, Desposito, beasts, all of them.
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