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.

I am your host, DJ Louis the 14th.

So glad to have you guys back for another episode.

I want to kick things off today by reading some reviews people have left. As people may or may not know,

we're doing a contest right now. So the way to request an artist you want us to feature on the podcast

is to go on Apple Podcasts and leave your

request in a review, preferably with five stars. And at the end of this month, although T, we might

end up extending this, we are going to go through and pick the artist with the most votes and do

an episode on them soon. So go do that. Some of my favorites that have come along in the last

week have been from Napoleon

the 4th who wrote such an informative listen.

Can't wait for Mariah Deepdive.

We had R.R. Webster who said, Urshur, pretty please.

We had T. Sino Gatna, who said said I'm really eager to see more boy band episodes.

We had D.T. and D.C. who said he's desperate for a Taylor Swift dive. I heard that one before.

And then we had M's 2170 who said a very enjoyable listening. Please do an Usher episode. So right now, Usher is kind of the frontrunner. So get on there and put your votes in. As usual, please follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod and at DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V. I also want to quickly say that we're changing the format of the Discord slightly, so we're not going to do dedicated Discord chats anymore. It's going to be kind of an ongoing thing where you can pop in there. The link will be in the show notes and in my bios on social media. I'll also post them on stories. And you can just go in there whenever you want, pose a question. I'll get in there with people occasionally. And we're just going to keep it as more of an open, free-flowing, sort of ongoing chat as opposed to a dedicated time. So that's the new story on the Discord. Make sure you check out the Spotify playlist for this and all other episodes in the show notes and on social media. And that's about it for me. Let's get into this week's episode, which is a very

fascinating deep dive into the career of one of the most misunderstood pop stars of the last

10 years, Kesha. Keshah sits at a crucial nexus point for so many pop cultural cornerstones of the 2010s,

that it's safe to say that musically and otherwise she is a superlative star of that decade.

She launched into public consciousness as the ultimate EDM-era party animal,

with the first number one hit of the decade, presenting herself as a fun-loving,

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