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.

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And speaking of Patreon, not only do you get bonus content there, but you also get access to the list

at my queer pop party Gorgeous Gorgeous, which is having its next installment in Los Angeles

on Saturday, May 6th at Resident Downtown.

So I'd love to see everybody there.

This is a party for queers and our allies. Everybody who loves

Pop, if you are a Patreon subscriber, you can DM us on Patreon and you can get on the list plus

one. Everybody else, please buy tickets using the link in the show notes of this episode. I will also

post it on social media. This party is so much fun. I love meeting Pop Pantheon listeners at this party. And again, that will be May 6th at resident

in downtown Los Angeles. Be there or I really don't know what else you're doing, to be honest

with you. This is the third installment of our girl group trilogy for April. We began with episode

one, which covered 50s and 60s, girl groups who created the idea of the girl group as we know

it, the Ronettes, the Marvellettes, the Cherelles, the Shangri-Las. Last week we talked about the iconic

90s hip-hop inflected R&B indebted girl group TLC, one of my all-time favorites.

And this week, we're talking about a girl group of much more recent history,

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