Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze the music, legacy, and cultural impact of all your favorite pop stars.

I'm your host, DJ Louis X.

and I'm a DJ, writer, and all-around pop music fanatic. I've spent my entire life and career

thinking about, dissecting, and being obsessed with pop stars. Their music, their legacies,

how they relate to one another, to the larger pop musical landscape, and to culture more broadly.

What separates an icon from a mere superstar?

Why does some careers become the soundtrack to our lives, and why do others flop?

Whose work in legacy transcends time, and who's feel stuck in it?

Every week on Pop Pantheon, we'll devote an entire episode to a pop icon, from Titans of

the Genre like Beyonce

and all the way down to lesser Titans, like Nicole Scherzinger. Each episode, you'll hear

a little breakdown from me, and then some distinguished guests and I will chop it up about their

careers, discographies, public personas, live performances, music videos, feuds, tweets, you name it. And at the end,

we'll turn pop into fantasy football, make our final judgment, and place them in the official

Pop Pantheon. So, welcome to the first episode of Pop Pantheon. I'm so excited that we finally are here.

Anyone who knows me and has had to endure years of me never shutting up about pop stars and pop

music will tell you this podcast is very welcome and has been a long time coming. So I'm so

excited to be here and to finally have a place for all my

fellow pop fanatics to go all the way deep on all of our faves. So since this is our first episode,

I want to quickly give everyone an overview of what the pop pantheon is and how it works. For the sake

of brevity, I'm going to breeze through it a bit here, but if you want a more

in-depth breakdown of all the tiers in the Pantheon, please head over to our brand spanking new

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