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 X. Louis the 14th.

And before we get into this week's

B-side, some quick housekeeping up top, we are prepping a mailbag episode, as I've mentioned

on past shows. So please send us your questions in the form of a voice note, or it can be written

to Pop Pantheon Pod at gmail.com. This can be anything related to the show, related to rankings, related to pop music in general.

We want to hear from you guys what you think, what you want to know about, what you'd like

me to speak about.

So send us your questions.

We're going to put that on a deadline.

So get them in soon.

I also want to announce that my party, G, gorgeous, is back for another round on September 23rd. That's a Friday in downtown Los Angeles at Resident. This is a pop music party for queers and their allies and friends. It's super fun. I know many of you have been to it before. And we're having our fifth installment. We made it to the fifth party, which is amazing. So please come out to the ticket link for that will be in the show notes of this episode. And I will also post it on social media. So hope to see you at Gorgeous, gorgeous on September 23rd at Resident in downtown Los Angeles.

Another extremely exciting announcement. We have our first piece of merch. I know people

have been asking about merch. We finally got it done. It is a dad hat baseball hat and it says

niche legend. It's black and it has pink writing. And I just felt like we're all in these sludges in our own ways.

And so this was a term that can both apply to this podcast and also apply to all of you beautiful people who want to wear the hat.

And it's really cute.

I've been wearing it around for the last few weeks.

I am the sole owner of it until today because now it is available.

And I hope if you like the concept, you'll go out and buy it. It's available on our website,

which is potpantheonpod.com. There is a shop button there where you can go and purchase the hat.

And I'm also going to put the link to buy it in the show notes. And I'm also going to post it on social media. So I really hope some of you go out and buy the hat. We have merch. I can't believe it. It feels like a big official step into becoming a real grown-up podcast. So check out our new hat. I'm really excited about it.

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