Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals

The Verge profiles Switched on Pop cohosts Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding, whose podcast breaks down pop songs through music theory, production, and cultural context. The piece highlights their academic and creative backgrounds, including Sloan’s work as a USC musicology professor and Harding’s experience as a songwriter, journalist, and professor.

Switched on Pop reflects a broader trend of making expert cultural analysis accessible to mainstream audiences. Its popularity shows how music education can thrive in podcast form when paired with curiosity, humor, and recognizable pop hits.