AALIYAH (with Kathy Iandoli)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Author of the book Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah Kathy Iandoli returns to Pop Pantheon to unpack the far too short career of one of the most exciting pop recording artists of her generation, Aaliyah. Kathy and Louie discuss Aaliyah’s upbringing in Detroit, her connection to soul legend Gladys Knight and how she came to create 1994’s Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number with R. Kelly, a convicted sexual predator who married her illegally as a teen. Then they examine one of the most forward-thinking pieces of R&B futurism ever produced, 1996’s One in a Million, a collaboration largely with innovative songwriting and production duo Timbaland and Missy Elliott, which is widely considered one of the best albums of the ‘90s. Next, they dissect Aaliyah’s showcase of triple-threat talent in Romeo Must Die and Queen of the Damned, her thrilling soundtrack songs, "Are You That Somebody" and "Try Again,” the blend of R&B traditionalism and avant garde genre experiments on Aaliyah’s 2001’s self-titled album, released just one month before her untimely death and how her early passing as impacted her legacy. Finally, they rank Aaliyah in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.6 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. Louis X. |
| 0:20.2 | Reminding you to please rate review and subscribe |
| 0:22.3 | to this podcast wherever you're listening to it right now. We're on social media at Pop Pantheon |
| 0:27.0 | Pod. I'm at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on Twitter and Instagram. We have merch like our iconic |
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| 0:39.9 | Pop Pantheon all access at patreon.com slash pop pantheon, where we are promising at least |
| 0:45.5 | three bonus episodes of this show per month. And right now, actually, the episode this week |
| 0:51.3 | is a recording from our live show last week in Los Angeles, |
| 0:55.7 | which was called Britney's memoir, music, and legacy. I was on stage, of course, with USC's Jason |
| 1:01.6 | King. Beyond the Blinds is Troy McKee and Los Angeles as Kirby Johnson, talking all things |
| 1:06.5 | Britney from the book to her music, why she's an important pop star, and a little bit of pontificating |
| 1:12.8 | on where she might fit into the pop pantheon. So if you want to hear that discussion, plus all |
| 1:16.7 | the rest of our bonus content, the only place to get it is patreon.com slash pop pantheon. Two gorgeous |
| 1:23.3 | gorgeous is coming up tomorrow night. November 10th in Los Angeles is gorgeous, |
| 1:28.3 | Gorgeous, L.A. at Resident in downtown. We're doing an entire Brittany themed night, |
| 1:32.9 | including a Britney power hour from 10 to 11 o'clock. We're going to be celebrating the woman |
| 1:38.2 | of the moment, the woman in me, Britney Spears. So that will be tomorrow night, Friday, November |
| 1:43.6 | 10th at resident in downtown |
| 1:44.9 | Los Angeles. And then the following Thursday, following Who Weekly, our favorite show, our good |
| 1:51.2 | friends over there having their show at the Palladium in Times Square and following that show on |
| 1:56.5 | Thursday, November 16th, gorgeous, gorgeous. And Who Weekly will be throwing an after party at the |
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