Are the Boys Okay? Harry Styles vs. Bruno Mars (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Two of the biggest male pop stars of the day, Harry Styles and Bruno Mars, just returned with new albums after relatively long absences. What's new with these two and what do they have to say after years out of the spotlight? On this episode, Louie and Russ unpack Bruno Mars' The Romantic and Harry Styles' Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louie here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode. |
| 0:05.2 | If you enjoy this snippet and you want to hear the rest of this episode plus weekly bonus episodes of this podcast, you can subscribe at patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon or click the link in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:16.9 | If you're considering subscribing to Pop Pantheon All Access and you use Apple's App Store on your mobile device, we recommend not subscribing to Potanthian all access using the Patreon app on your phone, where Apple is now charging unnecessary fees for new subscribers. |
| 0:32.3 | Instead, go to Patreon.com slash Poppanthian on your desktop to subscribe. |
| 0:36.9 | You will still have access to all of the features of Patreon, including listening to our bonus episodes on your Apple Podcast app. We wish we had more control over this, but sadly we don't. So that's our recommendation to save you a couple bucks. You can also, of course, subscribe for the audio only directly here in the Apple Podcasts app. Enjoy this preview. Welcome to Pop Pantheon all access, the podcast where we do even more over analyzing of all your |
| 0:57.9 | favorite pop stars and do other stuff too. |
| 1:00.1 | This is your host, DJ Louis XIV. |
| 1:02.5 | Thank you so much for being subscribers. |
| 1:04.6 | And I'm here with my romantic Russ Martin. |
| 1:07.7 | Is that what I have? |
| 1:10.2 | Russ, the question I have for you is, are the men okay? |
| 1:14.3 | I don't think so. No, I don't. We've been talking a lot about how we are in a bit of a pop |
| 1:22.4 | drought. Of course, there's always good pop music that is happening in the world of pop music, |
| 1:27.2 | but a main pop girl |
| 1:28.5 | drought is currently happening. We were expecting maybe Olivia Rodriguez, maybe Madonna, we were |
| 1:34.9 | expecting Act 3. We were hoping for something to happen in the first two months of the year, |
| 1:40.4 | and the thing that happened was men. So that is... |
| 1:44.9 | And not even Charlie Puth, even though we thought we were going to be talking about that |
| 1:47.7 | today until we realized when, Friday, that we were not talking about that? |
| 1:51.6 | Thursday night before I was like, all right, Charlie Puth album tonight, let's fucking go. |
| 1:58.6 | Our quintessential, not all men, Charlie Poole's. |
| 2:01.5 | Yeah. |
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