Hey, y'all, DJ Louis here. Just dropping a preview of our latest pop pantheon all access episode,

which is an addendum piece to our current Mariah series, which is rolling out on our main feed.

This episode is a conversation with the Wall Street Journal's John Jurgensen about

Mariah's ascension to the Queen of Christmas. We talk all about the journey of her release of

her 1994 album, Merry Christmas, and all I

want for Christmas is you, the song you guys may be familiar with, how it's slowly infiltrated

through culture and become a Christmas standard.

And we rewind and talk about the interaction between pop and Christmas music in general throughout

the last 50, 60, 70 years and how Mariah's success as a pop star in the

Christmas field has impacted stars who have attempted to also enter the Christmas field in her wake.

So here's a clip of that episode.

If you enjoy what you hear, you can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon to hear the rest of

this episode and to hear at least three bonus episodes of the show per month,

or by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode. So here's that clip. Okay, so I am here

with Entertainment Reporter for the Wall Street Journal, John Juergenson. John, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. So we are obviously covering Mariah on our main feed. We're going in depth

on her entire prolific pop

career. And her career, as I was kind of talking to you about off mic just now, also includes

this sort of adjacent but also connected element to it, which is Mariah as Christmas doyenne,

like Mariah as the queen of Christmas. And it's been part of her career

DNA from very early on. Obviously, her iconic album, Merry Christmas and its lead single, which has

gone on to become part of the Christmas canon. All I Want for Christmas was You came out in 1994.

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