ONE DIRECTION (with Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Rolling Stone Senior Writer Brittany Spanos joins DJ Louie for a conversation about British boyband, One Direction. First, Louie and Brittany break down how generational waves of boybands have riffed on a similar formula in their performance styles, musical tropes, and teen fandemonium over the last 50 years. They discuss how One Direction both stands in that lineage and break from it, beginning with their formation on the reality show X Factor, use of newly emergent social media platforms to galvanize their massive stan army, The Directioners, and their aesthetic reliance on rock signifiers rather than American r&b. Louie and Brittany then tackle all of One Direction's albums, the culture of Directioner-ism, trace the heavily referential nods they makes towards moments in rock 'n roll history, common subjects of their songs, the bombshell departure of Zayn Malik, and their impact on both boyband and pop history. Finally, Louie and Brittanny rank One Direction in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze the music, legacy, and cultural impact of all your favorite pop stars. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm your host, DJ Louis X. Andth, and I'm a DJ, writer, |
| 0:23.1 | and all-around pop music fanatic. I've spent my entire life and career thinking about, |
| 0:27.9 | dissecting, and being obsessed with pop stars. Their music, their legacies, how they relate to one |
| 0:33.1 | another, to the larger pop musical landscape, and to culture more broadly. What separates an icon from a mere superstar? |
| 0:39.8 | Why does some careers become the soundtrack to our lives, and why do others flop? |
| 0:44.7 | Whose work in legacy transcends time, and whose feel stuck in it? |
| 0:48.4 | Every episode of Pop Pantheon, we'll devote an entire episode to a pop icon, |
| 0:53.0 | from Titans of the Genre like Beyonce and all the way down to |
| 0:56.2 | lesser Titans, like Nicole Scherzinger. Each episode, you'll hear a little breakdown from me, |
| 1:03.1 | and then some distinguished guests and I will chop it up about their careers, discographies, |
| 1:07.5 | public personas, live performances, music videos, feuds, tweets, you name it. |
| 1:12.6 | And at the end, we'll turn pop into fantasy football, make our final judgment, and place them |
| 1:17.7 | in the official pop pantheon. |
| 1:20.2 | Hello, friends. |
| 1:21.4 | Welcome back to another episode of Pop Pantheon. |
| 1:24.5 | This is DJ, Louis, and as always, it is my absolute honor, pleasure, |
| 1:29.3 | privilege to have you here listening to another episode of my little show. Just going to keep my |
| 1:34.5 | remarks very brief up top here. If you haven't yet, I would really appreciate it if you could |
| 1:40.4 | rate and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts. |
| 1:44.7 | So many people have done it. |
| 1:46.2 | I am so close to my goal of 100 reviews. |
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