Lorde Deconstructs Herself on Virgin (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Lorde's long-awaited fourth studio album, Virgin, dropped this past Friday and finds the New Zealand savant both looking backwards at past sounds and versions of herself while exploring new writing modalities. Louie and Russ dig into the new music, its candid, grimy explorations of gender, sexuality, the body, and being in your late 20s and how Lorde's new dedication to reveling in mess affects her status as a generational pop prophet.
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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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| 0:36.9 | You will still have access to all of the features of Patreon, including listening to our bonus episodes on your Apple Podcasts app. We wish we had more control over this, but sadly we don't. So that's our recommendation to save you a couple bucks. You can also, of course, subscribe for the audio only directly here in the Apple Podcasts app. Enjoy this preview. Welcome to Pop Pantheon All Access, the podcast where we do even more over analyzing of all |
| 0:58.4 | your favorite pop stars and do other stuff too. |
| 1:00.8 | This is your host, DJ Louis XIV. |
| 1:03.7 | Russ, I want to ask you, are you ready to feel like you don't have the answers? |
| 1:07.5 | I am always ready to feel like I don't have the answers. |
| 1:12.0 | The only answer I do have is where you can find the last batch of $10 tickets to Maine |
| 1:17.7 | Pop Girls, July 25th. |
| 1:19.2 | Do you like what I did there? |
| 1:20.4 | Do you like that? |
| 1:21.4 | That was so good. |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah, you're really moving it all together. |
| 1:23.8 | By the time that you listen to this, those $10 tickets might be gone, head to our website, |
| 1:29.8 | pick them up, snag them now. It's going to be a real fun party. All of our friends are hosting. |
| 1:35.4 | It's going to be a pop girl summer rager. And is this, Louis, a Lord Summer? Good question. |
| 1:44.7 | I can't totally tell. |
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