Catching Up on Beyoncé's Xmas Performance & Sza's Lana (with Connor Garel) (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, pop music stops for no man, even Santa Claus. Louie and Russ got together with Dazed contributor Conor Garel to get into it about two of the most talked about pop events that happened over this holiday season: Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Christmas extravaganza from a football game on Netflix and the long-awaited release of the deluxe version of Sza's 2022 masterpiece SOS.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louis here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode. |
| 0:04.5 | If you enjoy this snippet and you want to hear the rest of the episode, you can subscribe at |
| 0:08.3 | patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon, click the link in the show notes of this episode or subscribe for the |
| 0:13.1 | audio only directly in the Apple Podcast app. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon All Access, the, where we do even more over analyzing of all your |
| 0:21.2 | favorite pop stars and do other stuff too. This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. Happy New Year. |
| 0:27.8 | It's so exciting to be back recording. I am here, as always, with Russ. Russ. Hi, happy 2025. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi, Louis. I've missed you so much. I know. And we haven't spoken |
| 0:39.1 | in so long. It's this is, we've just been on ice for a month. I, I can't believe I'm |
| 0:43.6 | finally getting to hear your voice. We recorded so many episodes at the top of December that it was |
| 0:49.0 | a little bit sick. And then we actually did take a break from one another. I am delighted to be back here recording with you once again. |
| 0:57.5 | And I'm delighted. |
| 0:58.5 | We also have a guest this morning, contributing editor at Dazed. |
| 1:03.0 | Connor, welcome to the show. |
| 1:05.4 | Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:06.3 | Thanks for having me, guys. |
| 1:07.2 | So glad to have you. |
| 1:08.4 | Excited to talk some fun stuff. We missed a lot of things. |
| 1:12.6 | There's so much to talk about. It was a break, but not for everyone. Some people were working steadily. |
| 1:18.6 | Some people were working steadily. Pop music stops for No Man, including Santa Claus. |
| 1:23.6 | Listen, we complained a lot last year that some of these girls don't want to work. They just want to release makeup. And now the girls have been working while we were on vacation. So they got us good. Obviously, starting off with Beyonce Christmas Day. Beyonce headline Netflix's first ever NFL Christmas Day game. Eight songs from Cowboy Carter got a live debut. |
| 1:47.0 | This was a massive platform, sort of a reinvention of the Super Bowl on another day. |
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