The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Nu-Metal, the mid 90s creation that blended metal, rap and pop, is one of the most critically derided pop genres. So it is strange that this genre is having a comeback. But whereas its first incarnation was dominated by men, now women are leading the way. Artists like Poppy, Grimes and Rina Sawayama have recast the heavy guitars, sung-rap lyrics and gaudy aesthetic to fight back the patriarchy. CORRECTION: Charlie does not play pinch harmonics, but rather natural harmonics SONGS DISCUSSED Korn - Freak On A Leash Rina Sawayama - STFU! Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff Poppy - I Disagree Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole Grimes, Hana - We Appreciate Power Rina Sawayama - XS Britney Spears - Gimme More Britney Spears - Toxic MORE Check out Finn McKenty's YouTube channel The Punk Rock MBA starting with his video on what killed Nu-Metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATllyNXF3Kg&t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to Switched on Pop, I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:43.0	And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:45.0	Nate, what would you say was the most critically derided popular genre of the last 30 years?
0:52.0	Screampoker.
0:57.0	Not a genre.
0:58.0	Oh, I know, I just made it up.
1:00.0	That's a tough one.
1:02.0	I mean, pop music.
1:05.0	How about this?
1:09.0	Oh, man, yeah.
1:29.0	I don't know what that is or what to call it, but I know I've made fun of that music a lot.
1:34.0	That is Korn's freak on a leash from 1999.
1:38.0	It is in the genre of new metal.
1:40.0	Yes.
1:41.0	One of the dead giveaways is singing the word me as may.
1:47.0	That's how you know you're listening to like turn of the millennium new metal.
1:53.0	May.
1:54.0	It's all been changed, but it's not a may.
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