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Join Paulina and Gerald on a sonic journey through the captivating history of Tiny Desk Concerts in this episode of "Educate Your Earbuds." Delve into the origins of this intimate concert series at NPR, uncovering its evolution from a modest office space to a global sensation. Discover fast facts about iconic performances and learn which Tiny Desk Concerts garnered the most critical acclaim and millions of views, spotlighting unforgettable sets by artists like Mac Miller and Dua Lipa.

As we explore the highlights, Paulina and Gerald share their personal favorites, reflecting on the diverse range of musical talents that have graced the Tiny Desk stage. From intimate acoustic sets to electrifying performances, tune in to uncover the magic behind one of music's most beloved traditions.

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In this week's episode of "Educate Your Earbuds," we're diving deep into the realm of music red flags. Just as we scrutinize potential partners for warning signs, we ask: Is your favorite band or artist waving a red flag or a green one?

As always, we start off the episode with our weekly music recommendations, offering up fresh sounds to invigorate your playlist and expand your sonic horizons. Then along with the music red flags, this week we also explore the concept of male manipulator music, and reveal our guilty pleasure songs.

Tune in to "Educate Your Earbuds" this week to explore the intricacies of music red flags, challenge your perceptions, and groove to some guilty pleasures. After all, the best way to navigate the world of music is with an informed ear.

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In this episode, we embark on a fascinating journey through the realms of music to uncover the most bizarre and perplexing lyrics ever penned. From the psychedelic sounds of the 70s to the avant-garde experiments of the 2010s, we delve into the depths of musical oddities that have left listeners scratching their heads in confusion and wonder.

Featuring a curated selection of tracks spanning decades, we showcase the diversity of musical expression and the enduring allure of the unconventional. From nonsensical ramblings to cryptic metaphors, we explore the eclectic landscape of strange lyrics and unravel the mysteries behind them.

So tune in, buckle up, and prepare to be mesmerized by the strangest, weirdest music lyrics of all time.

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Get ready to sip on the piping hot brew of live music gossip and top-tier news as we dive deep into the latest episode of the Educate Your Earbuds podcast. This week, we're serving up all the juicy updates on artists, albums, and the buzz-worthy events shaking up the music scene.

Grab your favorite mug and settle in as we spill the tea on Olivia Rodrigo's bold move to offer Plan B at her concerts, sparking a conversation about sexual health and empowerment in the music world.

We'll also dish out the delectable details on the reactions to the Glastonbury lineup release, revealing the eclectic mix of talent set to grace the legendary stage. From headliners to hidden gems, we'll break down the lineup and dissect the festival fever sweeping through the music community.

And of course, no cup of tea would be complete without a dash of drama. Join us as we spill all the tea on the rollercoaster ride that was Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign's performance (or lack thereof) at Rolling Loud festival. From unexpected twists to backstage whispers, we'll unravel the rumors and revelations that had fans buzzing.

Tune in now and let's sip, spill, and savor the soundscape of today's live music scene.

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Join us as we celebrate Women's History Month by shining a spotlight on the incredible contributions of influential women in the music industry!

From iconic artists like Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Taylor Swift, and Beyoncé to trailblazing female music producers and executives, this episode explores their remarkable achievements and enduring legacies. 

Tune in to discover not only some fast facts on Women’s History Month, but the stories behind these groundbreaking women who have shaped and revolutionized the world of music!

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In this episode, we dive into the dynamic world of competition within the music industry. For years, famous pop stars have been compared, pitted against each other in an ongoing spectacle. But does this rivalry breed healthy competition, pushing artists to new heights of creativity and innovation? Or does it create a stifling environment, where artists feel pressured to conform to a predetermined mold? We dissect the delicate balance between healthy competition and creative expression, shedding light on the complex interplay between rivalry and innovation in the music industry.

Tune in as we unravel the intricacies of competition in music, exploring its impact on artists, fans, and the industry at large. Whether it's battling for the top spot on the charts or pushing artistic boundaries, one thing is certain: the beat goes on, fueled by the relentless drive to stand out in a crowded musical landscape.

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Queen B is pivoting to country music! Or is She? Beyonce herself has now joined the long list of pop stars that have pivoted over to releasing country or country inspired songs. Is she here to stay in Country? Probably not but we're here to cover it. As the First Black Woman to top the country charts with her smash hits Texas Holdem' and 16 carriages, this monumental moment needs to be discussed in full detail. This week well cover it all, including our thoughts on the songs. Let us know what you think of them!

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For all the singles out there that may have just celebrated Galentine's day, and for all the couples feeling the love in the air, the Educate Your Earbuds team prepped something very special... our very first Valentine's Day Special!

This week, we will do a deep dive on the best love songs of all time. But what even makes a song a love song? And how does it become one of the best love songs of all time? The answer may be more science than passion, but you'll have to tune in to find out!

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The Music Industry has recently been going through a startling trend. They have been laying off huge numbers of their workforce. It doesn't even matter what sector you're in. It's hit record companies and the music tech giants like Spotify. The layoffs also recently hit the big 3 labels as well, Sony, UMG, and WMG. So what does this mean, is the music industry going to crash.

This week we dive into all the details surrounding the recent events that have lead up to this, like the streaming boom coming to an end and others. We also discuss if Spotify was doomed to fail from the start. Learn about all this and more as we examine the music industry recession.

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For years the Coachella lineup drop has been a much anticipated date. Music lovers nervously wait to see if their favorite artists will be among the acts headlining the festival...... and to see what secret talents lay in wait on the famously stacked undercard slots. Well the wait is finally over! Coachella has officially released the 2024 edition of their lineup.

As a festival that is notorious for selling tickets(and selling out) before the lineup is announced, ticket holders can be forced to hold their breath for months without knowing who they are going to see. This model is loved and hated by many but no matter where you stand, most people realize that Coachella creates a lot of buzz about their lineup for this very reason..... and oh boy was this years lineup a divisive one.

The Educate Your Earbuds team is bringing you all the info you need to know about this year's Coachella lineup drop. From our opinions, to who you should listen to on the undercard, as well as how Coachella may have messed up bigtime with the headliners this time around. We will also peel back the curtain on the mega corporations that are behind a large portion of the artists that are performing this year. You are not going to want to miss this one.

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Have you ever found yourself listening to a song that you don't listen to often and don't care about much, maybe you think it's overplayed on the radio and you just listen through it to get to the next song... only to find out your brain has memorized the entire lyrics to the song?! Us too.

In this episode, the Educate Your Earbuds team discusses why people remember music lyrics so well, even over other important things. We deep dive on how memory works, why we remember lyrics better so easily, and if some people are able to learn music lyrics better than others! If you're someone who struggles remembering song lyrics, we even have some tips for you to get better at this skill.

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Why are there breakup seasons throughout the year? To some, the time after the Holidays is peak cuddle season. For others, the time before the holidays through the beginning of the new year is the start of the depressing time of year we call breakup season. AKA the time of year where couples start dropping like flies, and wedding cancellations go out..

Relationships end for various reasons and are usually hard for one or both people involved. After a breakup, a lot of people find comfort in their playlists. Some people play sad songs on repeat and others blast angry "I'm over him" ballads. Whatever your tune, we're here to give you all the info on why and how music can actually scientifically help you with your breakup. And we'll even go through our breakup playlists so you can get through your heartbrake more easily.

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What do sleep and music have in common? They are both great for your health. They can also be combined into something that are greater than the sum of their parts! What do we mean by that? Well we’re talking about sleep sounds of course!

Sleep sounds have been known for years to help people get to sleep faster and have higher quality sleep, but recently there has been more research into how listening to actual music around bedtime can help too! It’s been shown to cause physiological reactions such as changes in hormonal levels and slowing down or speeding up your heart rate. All these things can have positive and negative impacts on your sleep, and this week we’ll give you all the tips and tricks you need to use music to maximize your sleep!

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The Beatles are probably the most famous band to ever exist. With over 600 million sales, they are the best selling musicians of all time. Even though they were only together for roughly a decade, they managed to shape the music tastes of an entire generation. Their breakup in the 70's crushed music lovers, but now in 2023, 50 years later, we have proof that Beatlemania never died.

With the help of modern technology, The Beatles have released a brand new song that features the musical talents of all 4 original Beatles members. Not recreations, but actual singing and playing. How did they seemingly manage to bring John and George back from the dead? We'll tell you all about it, and more on this week's episode.

By popular request we are back with another artist spotlight, and it’s going to be on one of the hottest rising supergroups at the moment….. Boygenius!

For those that don’t know, Boygenius is an Indie Supergroup consisting of famous soloists, Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus. With only one full length album released, they have already made a huge impact on the charts with it climbing all the way to number 4. The tight bond the group shares, combined with their vulnerable and emotional songs have made them an instant classic. We’ll touch on their solo careers, how they came to form Boygenius, and everything you might want to know about them. By the end of this episode, you’ll be as big of a Boygenius fan as we are!

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So supposedly this fire has been burning for awhile now but we still don’t know who started it. Did Fall out Boy Start it? No, but it may have been Billy Joel and his 1989 hit that did. It’s been covered more than once over the years, but it’s Fall Out Boys 2023 homage that has been topping the charts recently. This week we decided to cover the history of this smash hit and discuss some of the political and pop culture topics in the song. We even let you in on our favorites and heavily debated aspects of this song.

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So supposedly this fire has been burning for awhile now but we still don’t know who started it. Did Fall out Boy Start it? No, but it may have been Billy Joel and his 1989 hit that did. It’s been covered more than once over the years, but it’s Fall Out Boys 2023 homage that has been topping the charts recently. This week we decided to cover the history of this smash hit and discuss some of the political and pop culture topics in the song. We even let you in on our favorites and heavily debated aspects of this song.

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This week we wanted to touch on a serious current event that took place in the Music World. At the 2023 Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, the lead singer of The 1975 decided to protest against local laws that discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community. We will be giving you a rundown of the events that transpired and how they culminated in an on stage event, as well as covering the subsequent cancellation of the music festival and what the repercussions might be to the local LGBTQ+ population and the local music industry.

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Tomorrowland is one of the biggest EDM festivals in the world, and many people consider it the greatest music festival of all time! With Tomorrowland 2023 currently going on and everyone who’s not there feeling the FOMO we thought it would be the perfect time to do a deep dive on the history of the festival as well as the lowdown on if it should be on your music festival bucket list.Taking place in Belgium each year, this fest plays host to hundreds of DJs and over 400,000 attendees, but it wasn’t always the massive production it is today. From its humble beginnings of free admission and a capacity of five thousand to its modern incarnation as the Mecca of EDM festivals, Tomorrowland has seen explosive growth on levels not seen by a lot of music festivals. Is it Tomorrowland’s legendary attention to detail that pushed it to the top, or something else at hand? Tune in this week to find out.

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It’s a tale as old as time, you’ve seen it in all the movies. A young attractive musician shows up and all the girls start fighting for his attention. Well, have you ever stopped and asked yourself, is that musician even attractive? This week educate your earbuds is tackling the age old question….. are musicians more attractive than other people, and does playing an instrument make you more attractive to the opposite sex? We review multiple studies and deep dive the evolutionary psychology to give you the answers that you’ve always wanted to know! Tune in to see if you should update your dating profile. Who knows.... dropping in some guitar may increase your odds.

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Have you ever heard a song with such magical lyrics, or a melody that just inspired you to dance? If you’ve never written music, you may have asked the same questions that we have. How do artists begin to write their top hits? Where do they get their inspiration? When do they know when their songs are complete? We answer all these questions and more as we deep dive all about how artists write their songs, including some very weird methods from your favorite artists. We'll even give you some tips that may help you on your songwriting journey.

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It's time to celebrate because Educate Your Earbuds is turning 50 episodes old! To make the party more fun we decided to have our second ever guest join us on this momentous episode. Joining us this week is Teddy, a genius physicist who is bringing all his science smarts over into the music world.

Teddy is here to give you the industry insider tips of how to get a job in the music world. YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT.... you don't necessarily have to have a background in music to do it as a job. We will be having a conversation with him about his journey from his background in school to the path he took to get various jobs in the music and music tech industries. Be sure to lace your shoes up extra tight for this week's episode because Teddy is getting ready to drop some knowledge bombs on you.

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We all know a lot of our favorite musicians and bands mates are musical geniuses, but have you ever stopped to wonder how smart they are in other areas of their lives? This week we decided we wanted to explore all the musicians from your favorite bands that are low key geniuses. We cover famous Pop Stars that are polyglots, to guitarists that have PHDs in astrophysics. These musicians have truly defined the landscape of music as well as other fields like science and history. So strap in for this week's episode, because you may even be surprised by some of the names on this list!

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Have you ever been at a concert and looked over to see all the people around you are screaming or crying or yelling at the top of their lungs? Or maybe you yourself have done those things at a concert. Well if you have we aren’t judging, because you aren’t alone. It’s all because of the great thing called psychology. It is what causes us to form emotional connections with other people. This includes the artists that you watch perform and even the other fans in the crowd with you. The emotions that you feel during a concert can drive you to do things that you wouldn’t normally do in your day to day like breaking down into snot filled tears or scream until you’re hoarse. And at great concerts, even people who aren’t emotional at all can’t help but to get the feels. Once the crowd gets going that energy can even spread to others, all because of this thing called collective effervescence.

This episode, we’ll be giving you all the details about that and so much more because this week we are diving into the wild ride that are people's emotional breakdowns at concerts!

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We all know concerts and music festivals can get expensive. So to help, we’ll be diving into budgeting for concerts to keep those costs from sneaking up on you. We have the basic tips of how to save money for and during concerts, to the extreme tips for all our broke college friends who are balling on a budget. We’ll help you take control of your music finances to save on what you don’t need and keep spending on what you love(music). No matter how much or how little you are making you’ll definitely want to tune in to these money savings tips, because they will help you learn how to go to more concerts for less money than you ever thought possible.

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The hit Netflix show Bridgerton, as well as its spinoff series Queen Charlotte, have been doing some pretty cool things with the music score for the shows. Given that these shows take place in England during it's Regency period, the expected classical music that this period is known for is given a twist by blending it with the contemporary pop songs that we all know in love. This mashup between pop music and classical is also used in a lot of genius ways by the show-runners to invoke certain feelings or to get a some subtle messages across to the audience (like they do with Queen Charlotte).

Even though music supervisors have been doing these sorts of things for years, we are here for it because we at Educate Your Earbuds can't get enough of these crossover songs and we want to share our takes about them with you! So if you're interested in hearing about these modern day romantic mashups tune in, because we are going through it all.

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This week we are back with Part 2 of our series on AI music! From writing lyrics, composing songs, and recreating artists voices, there are a lot of different things that AI Music can do, and we are covering it all. This week we will be talking about all the questions you have on AI music. How the music industry has been handling AI music, and some of the legal and ethical concerns with it. If you didn’t tune into part 1 go take a listen to it, as we intro the topic and discuss the big names in the space as well as examples of some of the first uses of AI music!

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What do Drake, David Guetta, Grimes, and Kanye West all have in common? They have all been involved (willingly or unwillingly) with AI music. AI or artificial intelligence has been making waves in different industries around the world, and it has started to make it's way into the music industry. From writing lyrics to composing songs, there are a lot of different things that you can do with it. Even though we believe it has the potential to have a major impact on the future of music, there are still a few current hurdles, including people illegally copying artists voices! We will be covering all these detail and more in our 2-Part Series on AI Music. Tune back in next week to listen in to Part 2!

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