JENNIFER LOPEZ (with Billboard's Leila Cobo)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Billboard’s Leila Cobo joins the show to help trace the utterly unique path Jennifer Lopez blazed through popular culture. Leila and Louie chart Jennifer’s rise as a backup dancer, her star-making turn as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in 1997’s Selena and her debut album, 1999's On The 6. Then they tackle her cultural saturation after the turn of the millennium and her streak of red-hot rap collaborations that helped define the sound of the 2000s. Finally, Louie and Leila discuss JLo’s forays into Spanish-language music, her Super Bowl performance, her status as one of the most successful Latina performers in the history of American pop and place Jennifer Lopez into the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:14.6 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:18.0 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, and I'd like to, of course, remind you to |
| 0:22.4 | please rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it right now. |
| 0:27.7 | We are, of course, on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod on Instagram and Twitter. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V. I also want to remind you that we have merch available at potpanthianpod.com. Of course, the niche legend dad hat. Also, I have some other ideas that I want to bring to the merch table, but whatever. We're discussing that. But for now, niche legend dad hat, I must have. And then I want to plug our Patreon, of course, Pop Pantheon All Access, where we publish |
| 0:54.5 | at least three bonus episodes of the show per month. Our most recent episode is a discussion of |
| 0:59.5 | the Renaissance World Tour. I invited my friend Omri onto the show, who many of you guys might |
| 1:05.1 | know from our Chromatica Ball wrap-up episode. And if you are a patron subscriber, you know him |
| 1:09.9 | from a recent new music speed |
| 1:11.2 | round. He was quite popular. I'm sure he'll be happy to hear. So I invited Omri on the show. He went and |
| 1:18.4 | saw the opening two nights of the tour in Stockholm, Sweden. Russ is on the show. He saw |
| 1:24.2 | the tour in Toronto. I saw the show in East Rutherford, New Jersey a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:30.1 | And we all just came together to sort of share our experiences, what we liked about the show, |
| 1:35.2 | what was interesting about the show, how Beyonce has evolved as a performer, |
| 1:38.9 | what the crowds were like, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 1:41.2 | It was a really fun and insightful conversation. |
| 1:43.8 | So that's our latest |
| 1:45.0 | Patreon episode. You can get that and the rest of our Patreon content at patreon.com slash Poppan |
| 1:49.3 | or by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode. Last plug up top is gorgeous, |
| 1:55.3 | gorgeous. My queer pop party is happening in both L.A. and New York in the coming weeks. |
| 2:00.8 | The next L.A. installment will be in the coming weeks. The next L.A. installment |
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