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I have an announcement before we start the show.

Many of you know, I am a professor at USC Thornton School of Music.

And coming up, March 12th to 14th at USC in Los Angeles, California, is the PopCon 26 conference, Mayhem, Pop Music and Writing in Perilist Times.

Popcon is the annual conference devoted to the headiest thinkers and the most insightful people writing about music.

And it's an incredible event, and it's completely

free. All you have to do is go to popconference.org and register in addition to panelists,

including Switch on Pops, very own Rihanna Cruz, all through Friday and Saturday.

There are also some amazing key uh, keynotes.

John Battiste is going to be in conversation with the dean of USC Thornton School of

Music, Jason King, a brilliant, uh, pop music analyst himself.

There's also going to be a panel devoted to the legacy of DeAngelo.

And there's another panel thinking about Rihanna's album,

Auntie 10 years later.

So there's a lot of cool stuff happening.

And again, all you have to do to register is go to popconference.org.

It's completely free.

Los Angeles, California, March 12th, and 14th,

then maybe I'll see you there. What's that famous quote that's like talking about music is...

It's like dancing about architecture? Yes. If talking about music is like dancing about

architecture, how do you talk about dancing?

I think the better question is, how do you dance about architecture?

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