Rishikesh Hirway

You're listening to Switched on Pop, where musicians take apart their songs piece by piece and tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishi K. Sherway.

Welcome.

Thank you so much.

It's so great to be here, especially with both of you at the same time.

This is such an honor.

I was also thinking as you were listing all those nouns, I think I often hover over nouns wondering like at what point you get to call yourself the noun.

I feel much more comfortable with the verbs.

I can say like, I make music or I have a podcast that I make or yeah, I am...

trying to learn pottery, but like the idea of then saying, you know, I am a composer.

I have composed a score for films like three times in my life, but I don't know at what point you get entry into the club where you get to put the blank or on your name.

Yeah.

At the top of every episode, I say, you're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

Well, one of the things that I was most excited about when I started the show was the idea of sharing people's stems, sharing how a song looked from the person's perspective who made it.

Because as a bedroom musician for so many years,

I knew that I would spend so much time working on just like one little part, one section, you know, the mix on these three guitars that we're going to all be playing this one interlocking finger picking part.

But then that just becomes one small layer within the entire stereo mix.

And there's drums and there's vocals and there's all these other things going on.

And that's the goal.

That's the end result.