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.

This is your host, DJ Louis, the 14th.

And I want to quickly remind everybody up top that gorgeous, gorgeous, my queer pop party is doing two Halloween parties on both coasts. The first one will be in LA at Los Globos on October 25th. And the next weekend on November 1st, we will be at the Sultan Room in Bushwick. Tickets are available for both of these in the show notes of this episode.

We're doing costume contests with a cash prize. So you won't want to miss this. And tickets are also going fast. So grab them while you still can. As usual, don't forget to rate review and subscribe to Pop Pantheon wherever you're listening to this now. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon pod. I'm at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on Twitter and

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This past week, actually just yesterday,

we published an episode where Russ and myself

and Varieties Dan Dadario, who you might remember from our Katie Perry series, had the

pleasure of discussing Lady Gaga's role in the new film Joker Folly.

We saw it, so maybe you don't have to.

Anyway, it was a really fun conversation, so you won't want to miss that.

Also, last thing before we get into this week's episode,

I want to plug that I was a guest on my friend Jody Interfield's podcast AP, Taylor Swift,

discussing Taylor's lyrics.

This is a really fun podcast where they dig in in a professorial kind of like academic literary minded way to Taylor Swift's lyrics. So if you're a

swiftie and you want a new angle to think about her work, I highly recommend checking out

this podcast and I was on this past week. So I'm on I think the latest episode. So don't forget

to check that out. Okay. So today we're here for the second of our three-part series on Charlie X-C-X. If you haven't listened to the first part, which covers her early life all the way through 2015 Sucker, I highly recommend you listen to that episode first. This episode will cover Charlie's reinvention as the hyper-pop niche legend queen that she became from the mid to late

2010's beginning with 2015's Vroom Vroom and all the way through her self-titled record

Charlie in 2019. Next week we'll obviously pick up with the conclusion of our series covering

2020s how I'm feeling now through 2024's Brat. So without further ado, here is Charlie X-E-X part two.

In 2014, on the heels of Charlie X-EX's chaotic arrival on the pop scene, as a sometimes

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