Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze the music, legacy, and cultural impact of all your favorite pop stars.

I'm your host, DJ Louis X. Louisth, and I'm a DJ, writer,

and all-around pop music fanatic. I've spent my entire life and career thinking about,

dissecting, and being obsessed with pop stars. Their music, their legacies, how they relate to one

another, to the larger pop musical landscape, and to culture more broadly. What separates an icon from a mere superstar?

Why does some careers become the soundtrack to our lives, and why do others flop?

Whose work in legacy transcends time, and whose feel stuck in it?

Every episode of Pop Pantheon, we'll devote an entire episode to a pop icon,

from Titans of the Genre like Beyonce and all the

way down to lesser Titans, like Nicole Scherzinger. Each episode, you'll hear a little breakdown from

me, and then some distinguished guests and I will chop it up about their careers, discographies,

public personas, live performances, music videos, feuds, tweets, you name it.

And at the end, we'll turn pop into fantasy football, make our final judgment, and place them

in the official pop pantheon.

Hello, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Pop Pantheon, now with new and improved

audio.

Yes, I have finally graduated to a big boy microphone. Maybe I'm the only one who's going to notice the difference, but let me tell you that

is good enough for me. I'm so glad you guys are back for another episode. I'm going to keep my

remarks brief up top here, which are just to say, first a question, which is, I'm going to keep my remarks brief up top here, which are just to say, first, a question, which is, I'm wondering, would you guys like to hop into a Discord with me at some point over the next couple of weeks and make that a thing with every episode?

Like, would it be fun for us to all talk on Discord about the week's episode and to have a conversation? I thought that that could be fun. That was suggested to me. And I'd love if you let me know if that's something you guys would do. If that's something you want to do, hit me up in my DMs, either on Pop Pantheon Pod on on Instagram or at DJ, L-O-U-I-E X-V on Instagram or Twitter.

And let me know and we can all Discord.

I think that sounds kind of fun.

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