Hey y'all, DJ Louis here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Panty on All Access episode

in which Russ and Variety Stephen Jay Horowitz and I are discussing the absolute pop music

cluster fuck of yesterday, which included Usher's Super Bowl halftime performance and the announcement

of Beyonce's new album plus the release of two new singles. Oh my God. That plus we're getting into a

whole new music speed round. So if you enjoy this preview, you can listen to the rest of the episode by

going to patreon.com slash pop pantheon or by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode. Over there,

you're going to get weekly bonus episodes of the show plus so many other perks. And without further ado,

here is a little snippet of my

conversation with Stephen and Russ about Usher, Beyonce, and a bunch of other new music.

Okay, good morning. We are here on the most chaotic Monday of pop music so far this year. Louis,

how are you this morning? I'm frazzled, but also invigorated.

Great.

I feel like Lana Del Rey going down in the crowd.

We have to rescue Lana from this friend group.

It seems like terrible for her emotionally and physically at this point.

Indeed.

And speaking of friend groups, we have the wonderful returning champ, Stephen J. Horowitz, senior music writer over at Variety. Hi, Stephen. Thanks for joining us.

Hi. Thanks for having me. All right. So we were planning on talking about Usher, and we're going to talk about Usher in his own words. Yeah. But we have two brand new Beyonce songs. Things have absolutely changed over the

course of the last 12 hours. I have had whiplash about four different times. Last night during

the third quarter of the Super Bowl, Verizon aired this commercial that was very heavily

rumored to be an announcement of a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas. It was instead a revelation

of a totally different new surprise, new music. Beyonce has officially announced the long, long, long, long,

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