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J Coles the Off Season and the Power of the 12/8 Shuffle

In this podcast they talk about the legacy J Cole has left for rappers and in the music industry.  “Pushing his technique till the breaking point through verbal dexterity  and  rhythmic  complexity .”  They talk about how this album for J Cole was motivation to keep him pushing through to being better and staying in shape.    During this podcast they talk about his continuous stream of rhyming lyrics that blow them away. One of them compares  Cole's  lyrics to shooting a basketball and getting every shot after shot  and never missing. Also pointing out the fact that this album is not about "generating bill board hits” and that is all traced back to the fact that there  is not  a chorus to the song and just improving and doing something new.    Something about Cole’s new album is being traced back to beats and rhythms that were popular in 90’s, MPC sample shop, and old school  rhythms . And with that  there i...

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise The Roof (Switching on Pop)

  Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise  The   R oof     In this podcast they  enter  guests Robert Plant mostly known  as the lead singer of globally known band Led Zepplin  and  his  partner in the album Raise the Roof, Alison   Krauss . The album that both music artists have made is  called Raise the Roof, fourteen years after their album Raising Sand came out as well.    Their first hit called Quatro was a s Robert Plant described it as  “ a   very challenging piece .” Krauss said that this song was one of those moments where you knew where you were at the  time,   what you were wearing and what you were doing,  a  time you would never forget.  It was the beginning  of the record but also the impetus of the record . They explain how they noticed that the album starts off li ke running and that things  are   in  action.    I like how th...

Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club ( Switched on Pop 1)

  The first podcast I chose to listen to was published on November 23rd of this year and  it's  called “Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club”. In this podcast they talk about  songs  about heartbreak and being sad about love.  the history of the hit songs by Taylor Swift and Adele and their heartbreaking history with past relationships that have turned into their hit songs.    First, they talk about Taylor and her new hit song “All Too Well” and her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal. At this time when the song was taking place, she was younger and the relationship she had with Jake Gyllenhaal was viewed differently than how she views it now and that is what the song is about. It is how she perceives it now that she looks back on it and  it is  interesting how her  perspective  changes.    The next song they talk about is Bruno Mars ,  Anderson  .Paak  & Silk Sonic.  With this son...