A few hundred milliseconds are often all you need to recognize a song, but a lot of recent hits have moved away from intros. Our friends at <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1sgWaKtQxwfjUpZnnK8r7J">⁠Switched on Pop⁠</a> (along with the National's Aaron Dessner) break down how song intros can shape our perception and what we lose when they disappear.

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Guests: <a href="https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/charlie-harding">⁠Charlie Harding⁠</a> and <a href="https://music.usc.edu/nate-sloan/">⁠Nate Sloan⁠</a>, hosts of <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1sgWaKtQxwfjUpZnnK8r7J">⁠Switched on Pop⁠</a>; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aarondessner">⁠Aaron Dessner⁠</a>, producer, songwriter, and member of <a href="https://www.americanmary.com/">⁠the National⁠</a>; <a href="https://gracespelmanmusicproject.substack.com/">⁠Grace Spelman⁠</a>, music writer

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