ARIANA GRANDE: PART 1 (with the LA Times' Mikael Wood)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Pop music critic at the LA Times, Mikael Wood, joins Pop Pantheon for our first ever full re-examination of the first ever artist we ever ranked in the official Pop Pantheon: Ariana Grande.
In Part 1, Louie and Mikael trace Ariana’s roots as a performer, from her start on Broadway as a teenager to her Nickelodeon years and her bubblegum debut single through to her first studio album, 2013’s Babyface-assisted Yours Truly. Then they tackle 2014’s My Everything, which ensconced Ariana as pop’s newest superstar, and 2016’s Dangerous Woman, which marked her rite of passage from child starlet to sexually-embodied adult pop star. Finally, they discuss the 2017 terrorist attack at her concert in Manchester; an international tragedy that forever altered the course of Ariana’s persona, narrative, music and career.
Join us next week for Part 2 where we'll explore 2018's Sweetener, 2019's Thank U, Next and 2020's Positions and join our Patreon for our album review of Ariana’s upcoming seventh album, Eternal Sunshine, due March 8.
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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. |
| 0:17.5 | This is your host, DJ Louis, the 14th, reminding you to please rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V. We have merch at potpantheon.com. And our Patreon channel, Poppanthian, all access, where we do weekly bonus episodes of the show, plus so much more, is available |
| 0:37.9 | at patreon.com slash pop pantheon or by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:43.6 | Also, gorgeous, gorgeous. |
| 0:44.9 | My Queer Pop Party is happening on both hosts, first in New York on Saturday, March 9th at the |
| 0:52.4 | Sultan Room in Bushwick, and then again in L.A. on March 23rd at Los |
| 0:57.9 | Globos in Silver Lake in Los Angeles. Tickets for both of those will be available in the show notes |
| 1:02.5 | of this episode, so I hope to see some of y'all at Gorgeous Gorgeous. And as was announced in a special |
| 1:07.6 | installment of this show on Monday, we are doing our next Pop Pantheon live show in Brooklyn on April 22nd. |
| 1:17.1 | It is called Pop Pantheon Live, tortured poets, and the state of Taylor Mania. |
| 1:23.3 | And it will all be going down at the Bell House in Gowanus with an absolute murderer's row of pop pantheon fave special guests, |
| 1:31.4 | including Hunter Harris, Brittany Spanos, and Nora Preciati. |
| 1:35.6 | I am so excited about this show. |
| 1:38.9 | This is happening mere days after Taylor's 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department drops. So Nora, Brittany, |
| 1:46.3 | Hunter, and I are going to be talking about the new album. And we're also going to be using |
| 1:49.5 | that as a platform to talk about the broader state of Taylor's unending mass cultural |
| 1:55.0 | saturation over the last couple of years, how it's all functioning, the impact she's having |
| 1:59.5 | on pop, and whether there will |
| 2:01.5 | ever be an end to this moment of Taylor. And I hope that all my New York niche legends and |
| 2:07.1 | anybody that wants to make a little pilgrimage to New York will come out and see us at that show. |
| 2:12.1 | There's also going to be some other stuff happening around that event that is TBA. So keep your ears out. You could make |
| 2:21.2 | maybe a whole little weekend into the early week trip of it. But that's Pop Panty on Live, |
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