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Pop Pantheon

Is Whitney Houston Tier 1?

Pop Pantheon

DJ Louie XIV

Pop Culture, Pop, Pop Music, Music, Music Commentary

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

For the conclusion of our Whitney Houston Series, Louie and Russ play clips from all three guests— Emily Lordi, Jason King, & Gerrick Kennedy— plus take listener calls to finally determine if Whitney Houston is in Tier 1 of the Pop Pantheon.


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0:00.0

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.

0:18.0

This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, reminding you that there is a

0:22.4

gorgeous, gorgeous in New York on March 20th. I believe that will be next week when this episode

0:28.7

comes out. You can grab tickets for that in the show notes of this episode. Don't forget to rate

0:33.0

review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media

0:37.2

at Pop Pantheon Pod. Buy our merch at Poppantheonpod.com and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod.

0:38.8

Buy our merch at Potpanthionpod.com and subscribe to our Patreon,

0:43.4

Pop Pantheon All Access, where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show.

0:48.8

Last week, Russ and I bravely dove into the world of Maine pop boys talking about records from Bruno Mars, Harry

0:56.7

Stiles, Charlie Puth. And considering that we have definitely already recorded that and

1:03.3

listened to all those albums, I know it was a great episode. And I know you won't want to miss it.

1:08.4

So subscribe at patreon.com slash bot pantheon or you can get the audio

1:12.4

only by subscribing directly in the Apple podcast app. I'm here with Russ this morning and we're here

1:18.1

for a very important task, which is ranking Whitney Houston in the Pop Pantheon. This is the

1:23.9

culmination of our series that's been rolling out over the last few weeks. But before we do that, Russ, this week is the five-year anniversary of Pop Pantheon.

1:34.8

Can you believe it?

1:36.7

No, I actually can't believe it.

1:38.9

It's crazy.

1:40.1

Half a decade of Pop Pantheon.

1:42.0

Half a decade.

1:44.0

The show has come so far.

1:46.7

We are incredibly excited about where we are headed off in the future.

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