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==Format==

Each episode begins with the host introducing the show's featured musician (or musicians) and giving a brief history of the musical act or television program with which they are associated. The artist then discusses the creative process used in the creation of a particular song. This may include anything from [[songwriting]] to [[Sound recording and reproduction|recording]] to [[post-production]]. The discussion is interspersed with short clips of separate [[audio channel|tracks]] from the song isolated to illustrate the topics being discussed – for example, the drum track might be played to demonstrate how a particular beat was used in the song. The episode ends by playing a recording of the featured song in its entirety.<ref name="npr">{{cite web|title=Breaking a Song Apart, Note by Note|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/09/18/349576284/breaking-a-song-apart-note-by-note|work=[[National Public Radio]]|publisher=[[All Things Considered]]|date=September 18, 2014|access-date=October 25, 2014}}</ref> Hirway edits his side of the conversation out of the recording with the purpose of condensing the contents of the podcast around the song's creation and how the artist brought it to life.

The format of each episode--including its narrative structure, editing, and sound design--contributes to the podcast's construction of intimacy. ''Song Exploder''<nowiki/>'s sense of intimacy paradoxically upholds and subverts normative notions of intimacy at the same time.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clarke |first=Kyra |last2=Bjork |first2=Collin |date=2023-03-02 |title=‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies in Song Exploder |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231160886 |journal=Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies |language=en |pages=135485652311608 |doi=10.1177/13548565231160886 |issn=1354-8565}}</ref>

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