Lady Gaga's Joanne: Track-By-Track (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Louie and Russ go track-by-track on Lady Gaga's fifth studio album, 2016's Joanne. A departure from the slamming dance beats and extravagance of her earlier eras, the record posited a more "stripped back" version of the camp queen, featuring a campaign laden with country signifiers including her signature pink cowboy hat, and a backstory about Gaga's aunt, the titular Joanne, who died before the pop star was born. But does it deliver on any of that? After underperforming commercially in its time, how have the songs held up? And in retrospect, what did Joanne portend for the next decade of Lady Gaga's career?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louie here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode. |
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| 0:53.7 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon all access the podcast where we do even more over analyzing of all |
| 0:59.6 | your favorite pop stars and do other stuff too. |
| 1:02.4 | Thank you for being subscribers. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeha, Russ. |
| 1:05.3 | How are you doing this morning? |
| 1:06.8 | I have never been more ready to go than I am for this episode. |
| 1:10.4 | This is a long and off requested episode for. I have never been more ready to go than I am for this episode. |
| 1:17.2 | This is a long and off-requested episode for you and I to do. |
| 1:26.1 | Today, we are finally tackling the fifth in Gaga's canonical LG albums, the pink hat wearing, Joanne. |
| 1:27.6 | We certainly are, Russ. |
| 1:30.0 | And I have to say, even before we get started today, |
| 1:33.1 | because this is born from arguments the two of us I've gotten into about this record in the past. |
| 1:35.1 | So I know vaguely where you stand, |
| 1:37.6 | although we're obviously going to get much deeper into that today, |
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