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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housekeeping. Let's get into this week's episode, which is one of my favorites we've done. It's

about an artist that is both foundational to the conception of the modern pop star in the

1980s, which is obviously foundational to all the ways we continue to think about it today.

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