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

An episode of [Word In Your Ear](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1567029088), 11 May 2026, 50 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a01ed03b443364556ee3887/media.mp3

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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