Ariana Returns! Plus New Music from Lil Nas X & Jennifer Lopez (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, the year is major pop star releases kicked off late last week with three singles from three stars of three different pop generations: Ariana Grande's "Yes, And?", Lil Nas X's "J. Christ" & Jennifer Lopez' "Can't Get Enough". Louie and Russ gather to break each of them down, share their thoughts on their quality and parse out how each of these superstars are attacking the idea of the lead single in the fractured, center-less world of pop music in 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all, DJ Louis here, just dropping a preview of our latest pop pantheon All Access episode |
| 0:05.6 | in which Russ and I are breaking down the three biggest new releases of 2024 so far, |
| 0:11.3 | all of which dropped last Thursday night, starting with Ariana Grande's big new single, |
| 0:16.4 | Yes, and from her forthcoming seventh album, Eternal Sunshine, |
| 0:20.4 | and also Little Nas X's Jay Christ and Jennifer Lopez's can't get enough. |
| 0:25.5 | These, as I mentioned, are kicking off the year in pop 2024, more or less, |
| 0:29.3 | and Russ and I are diving into each of them, how successful they are, |
| 0:33.0 | and what they say about artists, a big pop stars even from three different generations, |
| 0:38.1 | are approaching the singles game in 2024. So it was a really great conversation. And if you want to hear the rest |
| 0:42.8 | of it, you can subscribe to Pop Pantheon all access by going to patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon or clicking |
| 0:47.8 | the link in the show notes of this episode where you can hear the rest of this episode and weekly, |
| 0:52.2 | I said that right, weekly bonus episodes of this show. |
| 0:56.4 | So here is a snippet of that conversation. |
| 0:59.7 | Hello, Louis. |
| 1:00.9 | Hi, Russ. |
| 1:01.9 | The girls are back and they're girling. |
| 1:04.2 | They're girling. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm actually remembering that you've really stopped with your whole bit you used to do where |
| 1:10.7 | you would somehow |
| 1:12.1 | incorporate like a pop star's name into your greeting of me? What happened to that little bit? |
| 1:17.2 | I ran out of pop stars. Much like the music industry. Yeah. Wow. And this podcast eventually. |
| 1:27.3 | Wow. Some dark, dark thoughts here on a cold winter morning in January. But we have some hot topics to discuss. |
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