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. Louis X. And I'm just reminding you, of course, to please rate, review, and subscribe to Pop Pantheon. This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, and I'm just reminding you, of course, to please rate, review, and subscribe to Pop Pantheon wherever you get your podcasts. We're available on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on Twitter and Instagram. We have merch available at Poppantheonpod.com. And of course, our Patreon show, Pop Pantheon, all access,

is available at patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon. And over there, we're doing at least three bonus

episodes of this podcast per month. Can you believe that? At least three episodes more than you're

already getting. That's incredible. Lastly, my queer pop party, gorgeous,orgeous, is having two new installments in the coming

weeks. The first is a Halloween spooky gorgeous in Brooklyn on October 27th at the Sultan Room.

And then on November 10th in LA, we will be at Resident for our West Coast Girlies. So if you are

in either of those places, tickets are available

in the show notes of this episode. And of course, our first live show, Pop Pantheon Live,

Britney's memoir, music, and legacy will be at the Crawford Auditorium in Pasadena on November

2nd. Tickets for that will also be available in the show notes of this episode. All right,

that's our housekeeping. This week's episode is a trip down memory lane for me into two

sisters whose careers may not be the most important of their particular milieus, but provide

very interesting insight into a lot of movements in pop music,

in pop stardom, in pop culture, a return to some music that is great, some music that is less

good, but still interesting to talk about. And I think most pertinently to me, it was a very

enlightening view into the way that certain moments in pop culture can really seem one way when you're living through them and then when you watch the long tail seem

entirely different.

So without getting too much into spoilers, here is Pop Pantheon, Jessica and Ashley Simpson.

Let's get something out of the way. Neither Jessica nor Ashley Simpson were particularly great

pop stars. Both made some decent music, actually one way more than the other, but we'll get to that

later, captured the zeitgeist for a brief instant, and are indelible to a cohort who were just

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