[#272] SWEDISH MACHINE MUSIK: Max Martin, Taylor Swift, and Pop-as-Cultural Technology Against Us (Livestream)
Added 2025-10-15 04:43:53 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid explore the hegemonic career of Swedish pop producer/songwriter Max Martin, the hollowness of Swift/Martin's "The Life of a Showgirl", ABBA and the birth of the Swedish Sound, Denniz PoP and the Cheiron Records hit factory in 1990s Stockholm, the neo-nazi past of Ace of Base, boy band sicko Lou "Big Poppa" Pearlman, sinister Dr. Luke, the tyranny of "melodic math", the "Cultural Technology" philosophy that birthed K-Pop, and more...
Comments
Rarely do I have a space to comment this but ABBA’s finest are better than The Beatles
Don DeYoung
2025-10-26 07:20:56 +0000 UTCthe ace of base thing is much worse than previously believed. they were crypto-ns throughout and theres hidden symbols all over: https://www.cracked.com/blog/how-90s-pop-band-secretly-sold-nazism-to-america
erik hellsten
2025-10-21 15:29:34 +0000 UTCPolska just means Polish in Swedish and other scandi languages
Jacob Schulte
2025-10-18 01:21:25 +0000 UTCThere’s a correlation between the Swedish music wonder and IKEA. Same modularity, life reduced to building blocks.
Robert Brečević
2025-10-17 19:05:45 +0000 UTC
