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Podcast: Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
Episode: Rolling in God’s Royal Uptown Road Edition.
Description: All decades of pop music swing between trends and fads—but the 2010s was swingier than most. From the maximalist EDM of the early ’10s to the downbeat hip-hop of the late ’10s, the pop pendulum oscillated more widely than you may remember. The same decade that gave us Adele’s stately balladry, Katy Perry’s electro-froth and Taylor Swift’s country-to-pop crossover also gave us the Weeknd’s bleary indie-R&B and Drake’s moody rap. And Bieber—so. Much. Bieber.With just weeks to go before the end of 2019, Hit Parade walks through the last decade of the Hot...