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 XIV, reminding you to please rate review and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ L-O-U-A-E-X-I-V on Twitter and Instagram. We have merch at Pop Pantheon.com. And of course, our Patreon show, Pop Pantheon, all access, where we do weekly bonus episodes. is available at patreon.com slash pop pantheon this week russ was stepping into

guest host while i'm on vacation to discuss tanishay's new record quantum baby so if you enjoyed

our main feed episode about tnache last week this is a great little addendum to that i highly

recommend you go listen to it our upcoming la live live show, Katie Perry, Lady Gaga, and the

millennial diva conundrum is happening on September 30th at Dynasty Typewriter. I'm so excited to be

live on stage, dissecting 143, talking about die with a smile and everything else related to

these two superlative millennial divas with an incredible panel of guests, including the

previously announced LA Times pop critic

Michael Wood and introducing podcast host Molly Mary O'Brien. And we just this week announced

a couple of more guests that are going to be joining us on stage, including writer and podcast

host Molly Lambert. She was formerly a writer at Grantland. She hosts the incredible podcast,

Heidi World and so many other great things.

I'm so excited to have Molly on the show. And also, culture writer and editor Jay Lonnie Turner Williams will be joining us as well. So can't wait to talk about Katie and Gaga with Michael Wood, Molly Mary O'Brien, Molly Lambert, and Jaylawny Turner Williams. And if you want tickets for that, you can get them in the show notes of this episode or by going to pop pantheon pod dot com.

Gorgeous, gorgeous is happening in New York City on September 13th

at the Sultan Room in Bushwick. Tickets are available in the show notes of this episode as well.

For this week's episode, as many of you know, we've been soliciting mailbag questions from everybody.

We got so many amazing ones. So Russ and I got together to answer questions about Brat and all the remixes and some ideas we might have for future Brat remixes, a thought experiment about Rihanna, questions about why I use so many funny words and phrases all the time, divas live, and so many other things. So I hope you enjoy this episode. Your questions

were so amazing. And if you want more of this, we'll be doing an additional mailbag episode

on Patreon in the coming weeks. So without further ado, here is our mailbag episode with Russ

and myself. All right, so I am here with Russ. Hello, Russ. Hi, Louie. And hello to the main feed. Yes, everybody say hello. It's so funny, because I always just forget that not everyone is used to hearing you nearly every single week on All Access. But if you aren't, you're really missing out because Russ is a critical voice there. You're really missing out if you don't hear him over there. Anyway, we're here for one of my favorite type of episodes, which is our mailbags.

I'm so excited for that. Me too. We got so many incredible questions. I love it when our listeners

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