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MADONNA: PART 3 (with Annie Zaleski)

Pop Pantheon

DJ Louie XIV

Music Commentary, Music, Pop Culture, Pop, Pop Music

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Author and journalist Annie Zaleski returns to Pop Pantheon for part three of our Madonna series, covering the period in which Madonna fully solidified her status as one of the most important cultural figures of the modern era. DJ Louie and Annie discuss Madonna’s critically-adored, career-reimagining smash Ray of Light (1998), which saw her celebrate the epiphany of motherhood, her return to capital-f "Fun" on 2000's Music, and 2003's stilted American Life. Finally, they tackle her euphoric return to the club and last moment of true pop transcendence, 2005’s euphoric Confessions on a Dance Floor.

Watch for the capstone on Pop Pantheon’s Madonna series – the re-release of one of our very first episodes, with Jezebel’s Rich Juzwiak, covering Madonna’s most recent work

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite

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pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

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This, of course, is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, and this is the third installment

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of our new Madonna series. It'll be the last new episode of the series, but I have a little bit

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more on that to come. Before I get into that, please don't forget to rate review and subscribe

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to Pop Pantheon wherever you get your podcasts. We're running a little contest right now where we're

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going to select our favorite review every single month, read it on air, and then send the winner a

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you know that are interested in pop music, interested in Madonna maybe right now, let them know about the show however you can. If there's friends you know that are interested in pop music,

0:59.5

interested in Madonna maybe right now, let them know about the show. Thank you so, so much for spreading the word on us. Also, don't forget to check out the Spotify playlist for this and every

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single episode of the show on the show notes of this episode, and we will post them also on social media.

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So this is the third episode in our new Madonna series.

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We obviously have now done episodes on the first run of her albums from her self-titled

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record through True Blue.

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Last week we talked about like a prayer.

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We talked about Vogue.

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