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

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the final gorgeous gorgeous of this year. This is my queer pop party will be happening in

Los Angeles at Resident Downtown on 1216. That is two days from today. That is Saturday. Please come out.

If you're in the area, we'd love to see you for the final send-off for Gorgeous Gorgeous this year.

Ticket link will be in the show notes of this episode. And I'm really looking forward to that.

All right. So this is the final installment of our Mariah Carey trilogy. If you haven't listened to the first two, I highly recommend going back and checking those two out before you get into this.

Also, we did a Patreon episode about Mariah's Ascent to the Queen of Christmas, which is also maybe not essential, but definitely recommended.

This week, we are covering Mariah's largely unprecedented comeback with 2005's The Emancipation of Mimi and its attendant hits like We Belong Together, all the way through her latest album, 2018's Caution.

We're also talking about all the records in between her time on American Idol, her assent a bit to the Queen of Christmas, although we get more in depth on that in the Patreon

episode, and a lot about her kind of Camp Deva persona, which I think is very familiar to a lot of

people who are on the internet and who have gotten to know her over the last 10 years, and her

memoir. And of course, we conclude with ranking Mariah Carey in the official Pop Pantheon. I know

it's the moment everybody's been waiting for.

So without further ado, here is part three of our trilogy on Mariah Carey.

If Mariah Carey had never released another album after 2002's Charm Bracelet, we'd still think of her as a legend. She had, after all, dominated the 1990s in nearly unprecedented fashion, a nearly unbroken string of diamond and multi-platinum albums,

15 number one singles, all but one of which self-composed,

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