BEYONCÉ PART 1: DESTINY'S CHILD (with Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Part 1/4!
In the first of four episodes in our new series covering the work and career of pop titan Beyoncé, DJ Louie is joined by Senior Writer at Rolling Stone, Brittany Spanos, to discuss the group that started it all: Destiny’s Child. Louie and Brittany begin with a broad history of black R&B girl groups, specifically the ‘90s wave of which DC was a part, and the ever-evolving way black women have presented themselves in the pop space. They then discuss Beyoncé’s early life, how she and her father Mathew Knowles helped form Destiny’s Child with the initial lineup including Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and Letoya Luckett, their 1998 self-titled debut and it’s surprise #3 hit, the remix of their ballad “No No No”, “No No No Pt. 2” featuring Wyclef Jean which showcased Beyoncé’s signature singing-rapping hybrid. Next, they dive into their smash sophomore album, 1999’s The Writing’s on the Wall and its innovative singles, all of which featured the groups virtuosic harmonies, a sharp pop feminist perspective that often traded in the role money plays in gender dynamics, and futuristic staccato R&B production courtesy Darkchild and others, before diving into all the tea on how, at the peak of their success, the initial line-up very messily and publicly gave way to a new trio: Beyoncé, Kelly and new member Michelle Williams. Louie and Brittany then cover DC’s blockbuster third album, largely an answer to the negative press of the group shake-ups, 2001’s Survivor and its attendant hits, the member’s various solo endeavors, and how Beyoncé returned to the group following her solo success for one final chapter, 2004’s Destiny Fulfilled. Finally, Louie and Brittany rank Destiny’s Child in the official Pop Pantheon.
Stay tuned next week for our next episode, Beyoncé Pt. 1, which will cover the first half of Beyoncé’s solo career from 2003’s Dangerously in Love through 2011’s 4!
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, girls, it's that time. This is a big moment for the show. |
| 0:25.1 | This is part one of a forthcoming four-part series on Queen B herself, Beyonce. More on that in one |
| 0:34.6 | second. I want to begin with some quick housekeeping. First of all, |
| 0:39.1 | gorgeous, gorgeous is this coming Saturday in downtown Los Angeles at Resident. This is my new |
| 0:44.7 | queer pop party I DJ. It is so much fun. Pop extravaganza. A bunch of Pop Pantheon listeners have |
| 0:51.3 | come out in the past. It is so great. I really hope to see a bunch of you there. The tickets for the party are going to be in the show notes of this episode. They will also be posted on all of my social media channels, which are DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on both Instagram and Twitter and pop Pantheon pod on Instagram. So go follow all of that. |
| 1:11.6 | And please come out to Gorgeous, Gorgeous. |
| 1:13.1 | And if you do come introduce yourself to me, I'd love to meet you guys. |
| 1:16.7 | And I hope to see you guys there this Saturday, 716 resident downtown Los Angeles. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm going to skip the review reading thing today because we have such a meaty episode to get to. |
| 1:29.3 | But also, please leave a rating and review for Pop Pantheon on Apple Podcasts on Spotify. The ratings and reviews |
| 1:35.6 | really help the show get recognized by algorithms and brought up in the rankings and thus |
| 1:40.4 | in front of more people. So I so appreciate everyone that's doing that. Please, |
| 1:44.4 | please continue to do that. And I'll get back to reading them soon. Also, get in our Discord. |
| 1:50.0 | Discord's so much fun. And this will be a particularly fun moment because I know we've got a lot |
| 1:53.7 | of Beyonce people up in there who are very interested in Beyonce at the moment as her record rolls |
| 1:57.8 | out. So the Discord link is also in the show notes of the episode |
| 2:01.2 | and will be on social media as well. So let's just get into what this is. This is the first |
| 2:08.3 | episode in four forthcoming episodes on Beyonce leading up to her new record, Renaissance Act 1, |
| 2:15.8 | which comes out on July 29th. The episodes will unfold as follows. |
| 2:22.1 | The first, this one is on Destiny's Child. The second episode will be on the first half of her |
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