Lizzo & The Nature of Celebrity Scandal (with Megan Agnew & Hanna Phifer)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Back in August, Lizzo was sued by a number of her former dancers for creating a hostile work environment, with allegations including racial and sexual harassment, disability discrimination, illegal retaliatory termination and assault, and more. This flew directly in the face of her brand, which champions positivity, inclusivity and authenticity above all else (including even her music).
The Sunday Times' Megan Agnew and journalist and culture critic Hanna Phifer join DJ Louie to break down how this scandal has played out for Lizzo, where it fits in with and differs from other pop star scandals past and present, and what, if anything, she can do fix the damage it's caused to her brand and image.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:14.2 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:16.7 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. |
| 0:19.3 | And we're here for a B-side roundtable today. Before I get into that, please don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to Pot Pantheon wherever you're listening to it right now. We are available on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-V on Twitter and Instagram. We have merch available at potpantheonpod.com. And we have our Patreon |
| 0:39.4 | channel, Pot Pantheon, all access, where we do at least three bonus episodes of the show per month |
| 0:43.3 | at patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon. A couple quick housekeeping things, gorgeous, gorgeous related |
| 0:49.3 | things. Tonight, November 2nd at the Crawford in Pasadena is Pop Pantheon's first live show. It's called |
| 0:57.6 | Pop Pantheon Live, Brittany's music memoir and legacy. It's going to be myself on stage with Jason |
| 1:03.9 | King, Troy McKee, and Kirby Johnson, and we're going to be talking all things, Brittany, the memoir, |
| 1:09.2 | the music, what it all means. I can't wait. If you are in the greater |
| 1:13.5 | Los Angeles area and you're looking for something fun to do tonight, come see us at the Crawford. |
| 1:18.7 | I will put the link to get tickets in the show notes of this episode. And I'm really looking forward |
| 1:23.8 | to seeing a lot of you there. We're also going to be doing a little Britney dance party in the |
| 1:27.1 | parking lot after the show. So I can't wait to meet everybody at the show on |
| 1:30.9 | Thursday. We're so psyched. Russ is going to be in town. It's going to be a whole party. So we'll see |
| 1:35.8 | everybody tonight at the Crawford. And then of course next Friday, November 10th is gorgeous, gorgeous, |
| 1:42.3 | the actual gorgeous gorgeous, official gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous at resident in downtown Los Angeles. |
| 1:47.1 | And then the following Thursday, November 16th, gorgeous, gorgeous, and who weekly |
| 1:51.8 | will be doing our joint party in New York City at Fishbow at the Dream in Midtown. |
| 1:56.2 | So so much fun stuff coming up. |
| 1:58.2 | Links for all of that will be in the show notes of the episode. |
| 2:00.6 | They're also in our bios on Instagram. So I hope to see all my L.A. and New York area girlies |
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