CHRISTINA AGUILERA (with Evan Ross Katz)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Writer and podcaster Evan Ross Katz joins DJ Louie for a wide-ranging discussion about TRL-icon-turned-pop-iconoclast, Christina Aguilera. First, Louie and Evan discuss the teen pop boom of the late '90s and early '00s, how it presented young stars as both wholesome and over-sexualized, and the factory-style, scientifically-perfect-if-personality-less music that defined the era. They then cover Christina's emergence on The Mickey Mouse Club as the "little girl with the big voice", her breakthrough singing the Mulan theme song "Reflection", how Britney Spears' explosion helped shape her first album, 1999's Christina Aguilera, how the massive success of that record both launched Christina to superstardom and put her in an uncomfortable box that obscured her unique talents, how she re-wrote the script with her iconic sophomore album, 2002's Stripped, her penitent for massive sonic and visual reinventions on subsequent albums like 2006's Back to Basics and 2010's Bionic, the latter of which helped usher the word "flop" into common parlance and also recast Christina as a underdog and gay icon, and how her singular career choices and trajectory has influenced recent pop stars and is deserving of a modern reassessment. Finally, Louie and Evan rank Christina Aguilera in the 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. |
| 0:17.9 | I am your host, DJ Louis X. Louis the 14th. |
| 0:20.4 | Lovely to have you guys back again. I want to kick |
| 0:22.5 | this week off with a very special announcement. I am starting a new pop party here in Los Angeles. |
| 0:33.5 | It's called Gorgeous Gorgeous. It is a queer-centric party, although we are more than happy to accommodate all of our gorgeous allies at this party. |
| 0:43.0 | If you live in Los Angeles and you want to come out and see me DJ all of your favorite pop tunes, mostly pop girlies, let's be frank, for five hours. |
| 0:52.8 | We're going to have amazing drag performances we have incredible |
| 0:55.4 | people hosting it it's going to be on april 22nd at resident in downtown l a i'm going to put |
| 1:03.0 | the details for tickets and everything in the show notes of the episode i would love to have the |
| 1:08.6 | pop pantheon fans out there it It's going to be so much fun. |
| 1:12.7 | As passionate as I am about talking about pop music, I am very passionate about DJing it. |
| 1:18.7 | And frankly, probably better at doing that than I am at doing this podcast. |
| 1:22.4 | So please come out April 22nd, 9 p.m. to 2 p.m. |
| 1:27.6 | I'll be DJing all night. |
| 1:29.0 | As I said, amazing performances, amazing people. |
| 1:32.5 | I couldn't be more excited about this. |
| 1:34.4 | And the link to buy tickets will be in the show notes of this episode. |
| 1:38.7 | And I will also put them on social media. |
| 1:41.2 | So I hope to see you there, guys. |
| 1:43.6 | Next up, I want to get into our newest |
| 1:47.1 | tradition, reading some of my favorite reviews from Apple Podcasts. There's been some truly |
| 1:52.5 | hilarious ones lately, like this one from Polly Paul fan, who says, a tier one podcast, extremely |
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