Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite

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Gorgeous, gorgeous. Our second anniversary party is happening in L.A. on April 20th,

at Los Globos and Silver Lake. And we're also having our next New York installment on May 10th

at the Sultan Room in Bushwick. Tickets for both of those parties are available in the

show notes of this episode. And we are having Pop Pantheon presents Taylor Mania, a Taylor dance party. The Night the Tortured

Poets Department comes out at Parkside Lounge on the Lowery Side on April 19th. I will be

DJing all of those events. Tickets for all of them is available in the show notes of this episode.

Okay, so this week we are getting into an

oft-requested subject on the podcast. This is an episode about one of the most important

idols of my youth, the great Brandy Norwood.

There's a lot of chatter, big rock, let's come. Why don't you return?

There's a lot of chatter for good reason about how the internet is largely bad.

But one of the ways I believe our online discourse has actually improved things is our collective

ability to reframe past misguided cultural notions through a contemporary lens and celebrate figures

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