
Music professor Jake Hanlon and his sidekick Justin Gregg team up to dissect the most popular songs in music—past and present—with analysis, humor, and nerdy attitude.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 59 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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The white bastardization of a classic black song should never have happened, but listen to it so Tracy gets paid
We discuss why Taylor Swift dominates, and we don’t really talk about the song.
Hey, it's 1977 and it's NYC and you've gone to a gay bar? Nope. You're just listening to the Barbie soundtrack and it's great!
The podcast is back with music that sounds like it was released on the last Drake album, but no, it's from the current Drake album. Drake tires to rap battle J. Cole and gets exposed.
Every once in a while, a trap song comes along that does not make us want to throw ourselves of a bridge. In fact, this song made us want to throw ourselves into a nice warm bed of happy feelings.
An interesting case study of the power of live performance and crappy studio production.
After all this time, Max Martin finally shows his face on the podcast in this “Ed Sheeran” song!
It's the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest summary episode! Finland was robbed!
Please play the songs so we can hear what your talking about
I enjoy listening to these two guys talk about music I don’t listen to and find their commentary witty, insightful, and fun.
best prof! Amazing podcast
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Apple Podcasts | #209 |









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