EN VOGUE (with NPR's Brittany Luse)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Journalist, critic and host of NPR's It's Been a Minute, Brittany Luse, makes her Pop Pantheon debut as we dive into the sassy, brassy ‘90s phenom En Vogue. Brittany and Louie explore the girl group’s prefab origins and their storm onto the Billboard charts with 1990’s Born To Sing. Next they dive into their classic sophomore album, 1992’s Funky Divas, their first member shake-up, and 1997’s EV3. Then they explore the group’s post-peak work, their impact on future girl groups, and rank En Vogue in The Official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely over-analyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:18.9 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, reminding you to |
| 0:22.0 | rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social |
| 0:25.9 | media at Pop Pantheon Pod, buy our merch, including some of our new merch at poppanthianpod.com, |
| 0:31.3 | and subscribe to our Patreon, Pop Pantheon All Access, where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show. |
| 0:36.6 | You can also get the audio only directly |
| 0:39.1 | in the Apple Podcasts app. Lastly, we have two gorgeous, gorgeous parties coming up next weekend, May |
| 0:46.1 | 2nd in L.A. at Los Globos, and the following weekend on May 8th in Bushwick at the |
| 0:52.6 | Sultan Room, tickets for both are available in the show |
| 0:55.0 | notes of this episode. All right, for this week's A-side, we're talking about one of the |
| 0:59.8 | gruvious, classiest girl groups of the 90s with a slew of incredible hits that I absolutely |
| 1:05.9 | loved returning to. This is Pop Pantheon and Vogue. |
| 1:10.4 | Ooh, pop, pop, pop, pop. to, this is Pop Pantheon and Vogue. |
| 1:24.7 | Seeing a mononless cat's eye at Coachella a few weekends ago provided a stark reminder of the pain that every generation of young pop fans must endure. |
| 1:28.7 | Girl groups, or at least girl group imperial phases, are usually here for a good time and not |
| 1:34.0 | a long time. |
| 1:34.9 | That said, if every generation gets the fast and bright girl gang it deserves, then the early |
| 1:39.4 | 90s were certainly blessed with Unvogue, a sassy, brassy, sophisticated, stylish pre-fab lineup of |
| 1:45.8 | a funky divas who blasted into the new decade with an arsenal of slinky kiss-off bangers, |
| 1:50.9 | effortlessly cool presentations of girl power, a galvanizing political bent, and harmonies |
| 1:55.6 | down. And from about 1990 to 1993, and for one errant moment in the late 90s, too, the ladies of EnVogue |
| 2:01.7 | stormed the Billboard charts, re-alchemizing girl group history for the hip-hop era with elegance, |
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