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.

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 feels 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, uh, 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 everyone, welcome back to Pop Pantheon. This is DJ Louis. I'm so excited to be back here for this, our fifth installment of the series.

It is an honor to be with you, as it always is.

I want to start out by extending a special thank you to every single person,

and there were many of you who reached out to me regarding last week's

installment about Madonna and told me that you took the time, some of you who had said to me,

you know, I haven't listened to Madonna since her sort of peak periods in the 80s and 90s,

and I took the time to go listen to her later work. And actually, I like MDNA or I like Madame X. And look, I'm so happy for

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