Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th.

And I'm reminding you to

please rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. We are on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. I am at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V. merch like our niche legend dad hat is available at Poppantheonpod.com. And our Patreon show, Pop Pantheon, all access, is available at patreon.com slash pop pantheon,

where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show.

This past week, we did a deep dive into Chapel Rones,

the rise and fall of a Midwest princess,

the pop phenomenon of the year,

so you won't want to miss that.

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Our Pop Pantheon Party, main pop girls of 2024, is happening on August 2nd at Parkside Lounge in the East Village.

If you want to grab tickets to that, you can do so by clicking the link in the show notes of this

episode. And gorgeous, gorgeous, my queer pop party is having its next installment tomorrow

night in Los Angeles. That is July 26th at Los Globos and Silver Lake. And you can grab tickets to that

and the show notes of this episode as well. All right. So here we are at the third episode of our

four-part Michael Jackson series. If you have not yet, I highly recommend going back and listening

to the first two episodes before you get to this one. This episode focuses entirely on the definitive pop blockbuster of all time.

Michael Jackson's 1982, sixth studio album, Thriller.

So here it is Pop Pantheon, Michael Jackson's Thriller. This is the first time this podcast has ever devoted an entire A-side episode to a single album.

But when it comes to Thriller, the definitive pop blockbuster, and it's not even close,

we really didn't have a choice in the matter.

There are albums, and then there's thriller.

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