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.

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and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. We are on social media at Pot Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-V on Twitter and Instagram. We have merch at Poppantheonpod.com. And our Patreon channel, Pop-Panthian, all access, is available at patreon.com slash pop pantheon this past week we were talking

a little bit about our sadness over the demise of the great pitchfork last week and also russ

and i are breaking down our experiences seeing the queen of pop on her celebration tour recently so go get

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Also, gorgeous, gorgeous.

My Queer Pop Party is having two installments coming up.

One is this coming Saturday, February 3rd at the Sultan Room in Bushwick, and the next one is

February 17th at Los Globos in Silver Lake in Los Angeles. Tickets for both of those are available in the show

notes of this episode, so I'm hoping to see some of you guys there. Obviously, this week is the

follow-up to last week's Black-Eyed Peace episode. Today we will be focusing on the short but very

bright and often problematic career

of the Duchess herself, Miss Fergie Ferg.

I can't decide whether Stacey and Ferguson, better known to us now as Fergie, was a total

shoe-in, faded to be superstar, or one of the least likely pop success stories of all time.

On the one hand, she's a conventionally pretty child star with a solid singing voice,

serviceable dance moves, sex appeal, lots of grit and determination, and most importantly,

undeniable X Factor. All typical and necessary ingredients for the job of pop diva. On the other,

though, her rise to the top is a pretty improbable tale, from voicing Sally Brown on peanuts, to founding a C-tier late-90s girl group that never really took off, to falling into serious addiction to methamphetamines in her 20s, to becoming late in the game, the front-facing, campy, rapping, belting side piece of conscious rap-come-pop monstrosity

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