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

14th. And please don't forget to rate review and subscribe to Pop Pantheon. This is your host, DJ Louis X14th. And please don't forget to rate review and

subscribe to Pop Pantheon wherever you get your podcasts. We will be reviewing all of our favorite

new reviews on Apple Podcasts throughout the month of February. And the winner will get red on air

and you will receive a free niche legend dad hat from our merch store.

So keep rating, keep reviewing. Thank you so much to everyone that's doing that. Please don't forget to follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod and me at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-V on both Instagram and Twitter. And if you want to cop our merch, you can go to poppanthionpod.com and go to the merch store. And that's where our niche legend dadhead is and our mere superstar tea is as well. Also, Pop Pantheon All Access, our Patreon

channel, we just dropped a new episode earlier this week where we are looking back at Rihanna's

epic Super Bowl performance with Julianne Esqubado Shepard, Pop

Pantheon fave. So if you want to hear our thoughts on the Super Bowl halftime show, go to

patreon.com slash pop pantheon or click the link in our show notes to hear that. We also have our

Grammy's reaction episode and so many other amazing bonus contents and perks and discord access

and the rest of it. So with all of that housekeeping out of the way, let's get into this week's

episode, which is a little bit different, I guess, for us. And yet something I know you guys are

going to really enjoy. It was so fascinating to get into this topic. And I'm excited for you guys to listen to it. So this is an episode about Frank Sinatra, a pre-rock pop icon before the term pop star really ever came to be, I guess. But definitely one of the most formative musical figures of the 20th century, someone that cited as an influence

from everybody from the rock pop stars that came after him like John Lennon and Elvis and all the way

through to the massive pop icons that we like to talk about on our show all the time, a huge

influence on Michael Jackson, a huge influence on George Michael, on so many of those stars. And then, of

course, in his style of cruding, which is something that we see throughout pop music, the intimate

singing into the microphone that was his sort of ace carter, the innovation that he helped

popularize and make de rigour, something that we have seen seismically infiltrate pop culture from the singing

styles of Brittany and Janet to Lana Del Rey and Billy Elish and on and on. And also just a

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