# Paul Simon, Bad Bunny, how songwriting changed & the scourge of Blue Dot Fever!

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Podcast: [Word In Your Ear](https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240)
Published: 2026-05-11T14:51:46+00:00
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It’s polling day for this week’s news and these are the stories that got our vote …   ... Pussycat Dolls, Meghan Trainor and how ‘Blue Dot Fever’ is wrecking ticket sales   … how can you judge a songwriter with eight collaborators?   … Dylan’s ‘Judas’ moment 60 years later   … is everything becoming binary: thumbs-up or thumbs-down?   … Grandmaster Flash, Augustus Pablo, George McRea, Tangerine Dream and the times brand new music was invented   … when certain dances got you arrested   … Alice in Sunderland? See You In My Drums? Shadows’ song titles rebooted   … the hilarious self-positioning of the NME critics’ poll … plus jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and thrill of imagining the sound of acts who were never recorded. Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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