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Pop Pantheon

CALVIN HARRIS & DAVID GUETTA (with Lina Abascal)

Pop Pantheon

DJ Louie XIV

Pop Culture, Pop, Pop Music, Music, Music Commentary

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Culture writer and author Lina Abascal returns to Pop Pantheon to revisit the fleeting early 2010s moment when EDM DJs utterly consumed American popular music via two of the genre’s most emblematic figures, David Guetta and Calvin Harris. Louie and Lina trace David’s roots in the Paris club scene through to his breakthrough in the U.S. with hits like "When Love Takes Over", "Sexy Bitch" & "Memories", "Where Them Girls At?", "Titanium" and "Turn Me On", his big pop collaborations with artists like Sia, Kelly Rowland and Nicki Minaj. They then tackle Calvin’s bloghouse-y origins through to his peak-era work, from 2011’s “We Found Love” with Rihanna to smashes like "Feel So Close", "Sweet Nothing", "One Kiss" and "This is What You Came For". Finally, Louie and Lina discuss how the EDM bubble burst, how Guetta and Harris adapted, and rank both David Guetta and Calvin Harris in the Official Pop Pantheon.

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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.

0:17.4

This is your host, DJ Louis X. Louis X. Reminding you to please rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it. Follow us on social at Pop Pantheon. This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, reminding you to please rate, review, and

0:20.8

subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it. Follow us on social at Pop Pantheon Pod and me at DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V, buy our merch at Poppantheonpod.com and join our Patreon channel, Pop Pantheon All Access for weekly bonus episodes of this show and so many more perks. This week, we had Vox's Kindle Cunningham

0:40.2

on the show to discuss Justin Timberlake's new record, as well as the state of his career in

0:46.9

this moment. It was a really fun conversation. So get on that at patreon.com slash poppanthian,

0:52.1

or you can now subscribe for the audio only in the

0:55.6

apple podcast app just by clicking subscribe you can apple pay etc it's very convenient so pop pantheon

1:01.4

all access see y'all there all right next up couple of events or a few events coming up for us of

1:07.2

course gorgeous gorgeous my queer pop party is happening in LA this Saturday,

1:11.7

March 23rd at Los Globos and Silver Lake. Tickets are available in the show notes of this episode,

1:16.5

so I hope to see my LA girlies there. Our pop pantheon branded events, first our Taylormania

1:21.9

dance party is happening on April 19th at Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side. Tickets for that are also

1:28.2

available in the show notes of this episode. Come dance to Taylor all night long on the day that her new

1:32.0

record, the tortured poets department drops. I'll be DJing. It's going to be so much fun.

1:36.3

Rush will be in town, so it'll be great. And then I would plug our live show on April 22nd,

1:40.1

but y'all sold that shit out. So that Bell House show is sold out. And I can't wait for that.

1:46.5

That's on 422 at the Bell House in Guantas. Can't wait for Taylormania weekend and week.

1:52.2

Two last things. We are still looking for a freelance editor, audio editor. If you are an audio editor,

2:00.1

or you know an audio editor, we are looking for someone

2:03.6

to come work with us. So if that's you or someone you know, please email us at Pop Pantheonpod

2:09.2

at gmail.com and let's chat about it. All right, so I want to announce that we're also going to be

2:13.2

doing a mailbag episode of Pop Pantheon in the near future. So if you have questions about pop, about pop music, about pop stars, about the Pop Pantheon, about the show, really whatever you want to ask us, send them to us at Pop Pantheon Pod at gmail.com. We'd love to have them in a voice note form so we can play your beautiful voice on air, but we will also take written questions.

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