Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze the music, legacy, and cultural

impact of all your favorite pop stars.

I'm your host, DJ Louis X. Louis X. And I'm a DJ,

writer, and all-around pop music fanatic. I've spent my entire life and career thinking about,

dissecting, and being obsessed with pop stars. Their music, their legacies, how they relate to one

another, to the larger pop musical landscape and to culture more broadly.

What separates an icon from a mere superstar? Why does some careers become the soundtrack to our

lives and why do others flop? Whose work in legacy transcends time and whose feel stuck in it?

Every episode of Pop Pantheon, we'll devote an entire episode to a pop icon, from Titans of the

genre like Beyonce and all the way down to, uh, lesser Titans, like Nicole Scherzinger.

Each episode, you'll hear a little breakdown from me, and then some distinguished guests

and I will chop it up about their careers, discographies, public personas, live performances,

music videos, feuds, tweets,

you name it. And at the end, we'll turn pop into fantasy football, make our final judgment,

and place them in the official Pop Pantheon.

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Pop Pantheon. We're here again, episode four. Here we go. I have to just say,

I am having the most fun doing this podcast and getting to connect with all of you, my fellow pop freaks, and to share our weird obsession with pop stars, it just feels like I've found

my click and my crew, and I really, really appreciate you all for coming back every episode and being

part of this fun, weird journey together. So thank you again for tuning in and we're just getting

started and it's so fucking exciting for me. I want to extend a very special welcome to all the new

Jet friends that came on board the podcast last episode.

There is nothing more gratifying as a pop van than connecting over Queen Carly.

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