Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely over-analyze all your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

This is your host, DJ Louis X. 14th. I want to welcome you to

a special bonus episode of the podcast. As many of you know, I think a lot of you listened,

there was a Super Bowl episode recently where Rich Joswiak of Jezabel came on and we broke down

all of the Super Bowls of the last 30 years or so and picked our favorites. Great episode. Highly recommend you go listen to it.

Even though the Super Bowl has passed, I still think it's a really fun look back on the Super Bowl

halftime show and all the great performances and less great performances that have happened

over the last 30 years. So while Rich and I were recording that, we ended up recording way longer

than I had expected.

We originally also were planning to do a little discussion about the Janet Jackson documentary

that came out about a month ago on Lifetime and A&E.

Just for some light background, this documentary was sanctioned by Janet.

She participated heavily in it.

And it was meant to be, I think, a bit of a record

straightener or some sort of way for her to address numerous controversies that have

swirled around her and had a very profound effect on her position and culture and her

robust musical legacy. And so the documentary was billed on kind of like the moment that Janet is going to break her silence, essentially.

Both Rich and I are big Janet fans.

And we had a lot of thoughts about the documentary and what it did well.

And a lot of things that I think we both felt it did less well.

And how her legacy has been affected by so many events both in and out of her control and no pun intended and

why the documentary didn't quite do what it needed to do to help mediate or fix some of those

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