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'm so excited to announce that the next installment of

our main pop girls party is happening on July 25th. We are moving to a new venue, the Meadows

in Brooklyn, and we have an incredible lineup of hosts from Rolling Stones, Larisha Paul,

and Brittany Spanos to Legends Only's T. Kyle Mac and Bradley Stern. And our friend musician Rivker Reyes,

we are so excited about this party. It's going to be called Pop Girl Summer. We're going to be playing

all the hits from all your favorites. Addison, Sabrina, Chapel, Beyonce, Britney, Dochi,

you name it. It's going to be a fucking blowout. So don't miss this. Tickets are currently at the cheapest

they're going to be and they're available at potpantheon pod.com or you can click the link in the show

notes of this episode. I can't wait to play all your favorite tunes all night. So we'll see you at

Maine Pop Girls. Pop Girl Summer at the Meadows in Brooklyn on July 25th. Secondly, we are making a call out for you to send us

some of your unpopular pop opinions. We did an episode like this a few months ago and it was a big

hit and we want to hear from you about the things in pop music that you have gotten blowback from,

from your friends, your thoughts you have on albums that

you think are underrated, your feelings that go against the grain, I guess. Russ and a guest will be

answering some of these unpopular opinions. I'm going to be out for a couple of weeks over the

summer just due to book writing stuff, but I'll be here for most episodes. But this particular episode, Russ, will be fielding some of your unpopular pop opinions with a fun guest. So send those to us at Poppantheon pod at gmail.com. Voice notes preferred, but we will also take written unpopular opinions. Don't forget to rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheonian pod, merch at Poppanthianpod.com, and our Patreon channel, Poppantheon all access is available at patreon.com slash Poppantheon. And you can subscribe for the audio only directly in the Apple podcast app weekly bonus episodes that you do not want to miss. Okay, y'all know what it is. If you didn't listen to last week's first part of our Elton John series, go back and check that out. Today, we will be talking about Elton's latter period work,

starting from the mid-70s all the way through to the present day with our good friend,

Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone. So without further ado, here is Pop Panther on Elton John,

Part 2.

As a capstone to his explosive appearance on the scene, Elton John released a greatest hits album

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