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.

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we're diving deep on Ice Spices debut album Y2K. available at patreon.com slash pop pantheon. We release weekly bonus episodes of the show there. And this past

week, we're diving deep on Ice Spices debut album Y2K. So you won't want to miss that. You can also

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to do a mailbag episode of the show where we're answering all your questions about pop, the pop pantheon, Russ and I's private lives, whatever you want to ask us. We're fielding questions on all of it. You can send those questions to pop pantheon pod at gmail.com. We would prefer voice notes so that we can hear your lovely voices and play them on air, but we will also take written questions. So send those questions in to Pop Pantheon pod at gmail.com,

and you might just hear us answer them on an upcoming mailbag episode.

Tomorrow night is Pop Pantheon's next party where I'll be DJing all your favorite

main pop girls from the past year.

So this is the main Pop Girls of 2024 party.

It's at Parkside Lounge in the East Village.

So I'll be playing all your

favorite hits from Beyonce, Taylor, Chapel, Rhone, Sabrina Carpenter, Tanase,

Duolipa, Charlie X-X, and all your other faves. So come out to Parkside Lounge. Tickets are

available in the show notes of this episode. And the next gorgeous gorgeous will be in Los Angeles

on August 17th. And the link for that party will also be in the show notes of this episode.

All right. So as you well know today is the final installment of our epic four part series on

the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. In this episode, we'll be covering everything from bad to his epic, personal,

and private downfall over the last years of his life, as well as reckoning with his legacy and

discussing where he fits into the pop pantheon. I know the suspense is killing everybody.

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