It’s a brand new year, and what better way to ring it in than with the second annual Switched On Pop bingo? Like last year, Charlie, Nate, and Reanna polish their crystal balls and play Popstradamus, each throwing out eight outlandish pop predictions for the coming months. This time, there’s piano ballads, cover songs, and what Charlie calls the impending “death of auto-tune.”

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Songs discussed:

The Prodigy – Firestarter
The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
Basement Jaxx – Jump ’N Shout
Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile
Benson Boone – Beautiful Things
Post Malone, Ozzy Osbourne, Travis Scott – Take What You Want
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
Anamanaguchi, Hatsune Miku – Miku
Crazy Frog – Axel F
Hampton The Hamster – Hampsters Get the Blues
K/DA – POP/STARS
Madison Beer – make you mine
Forrest Frank – YOUR WAY’S BETTER
Tate McRae – Sports car
Tata Taktumi, Timbaland – Pulse x Glitch
PARTYNEXTDOOR, Drake, Yebba – DIE TRYING
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression That I Get
Maddox Batson – Tears In The River
JAY-Z – D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune)
Adele – Someone Like You
Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved
Rihanna, Mikky Ekko – Stay
Baauer – Harlem Shake
Billie Eilish – bury a friend
This Is Lorelei, MJ Lenderman – Dancing in the Club – MJ Lenderman Version
WITCH – Once In A Lifetime
MOLIY, Shenseea, Silent Addy, Skillibeng – Shake It To The Max (FLY) – Remix
Geese – Bow Down
Turnstile – LOOK OUT FOR ME
Rebecca Black – Sugar Water Cyanide
Bad Bunny – DtMF

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