Hey y'all, DJ Louie here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode, in which myself and Pop Pantheon a favorite Troy McKee got together to look back on Paris Hilton's erstwhile debut solo album, Paris from 2006. If you enjoy this snippet and you want to hear the rest of this episode, plus weekly bonus episodes of this show, you can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode or you can subscribe for the audio only directly in the Apple Podcast app. All right. So I have the absolute delight of being here once again with co-host of Beyond the Blinds and also the new podcast. What's Your Issue? It's my friend Troy McKeety Troy. Welcome back to the show.

My God, I feel like I'm at home. This is like my, this is like a staycation. It is honestly. Like there's just certain people like, I mean, look, I love all my guests equally. They're all my children, whatever. But there are just certain people like where I'm like, this is just going to be fun. and I don't have to be like stressed about it in any way because it's just like, I just love talking to you and you're just like such a delight. And you're just one of those people for me. Like I just see this in my calendar and I'm like pure delight. No stress. Just fun. And I love that for me. I'm not the host of the show, but I feel the exact same way. Oh, that makes me feel so good. We've had some really good times.

I feel like you've the host of the show, but I feel the exact same way. Oh, that makes me feel so good.

We've had some really good times. I feel like you've been part of some like really, really memorable

pop pantheon moments back to like the TRL episode and then of course like our live show. And then

one of the most popular episodes of this podcast ever, which is more than we can say for either

artists at the center of them, Jessica and Ashley Simpson, people loved that episode, Troy. Like, literally, I think that was one of our

top five most listened to within the month long span episodes of all time. So that's a testament

to you as much as anybody else, as much as Jessica or Ashley. Let's put it down. I was going to say, well, and also the autobiography album. I mean, let's be honest. Just the power of it. Yes. Which, like, we will be referencing, I think, maybe at certain moments in talking about today's subject. Yeah. For sure. So, Troy is here for, I think, what we can safely say is a very Troy topic. and that is to do a deep dive on Paris Hilton's up until recently

only solo album, Paris, which came out in 2006. The reason besides just that we thought it would

be fun to talk about this kind of strange emblem of a very specific moment in both pop and

pop cultural history is because my fellow DJ,

Paris Hilton, has announced that her new album, her second album, her first since this album,

almost 20 years ago, Infinite Icon, will be out on September 6th, which is coming up in a few

weeks. So what better moment than to check in on Paris, an album that I will confess,

outside of obviously, stars are blind and maybe nothing in this world, which I think is just

like 10 out of 10 banger. I have not returned to in full, probably since it came out in 2006

until we were getting ready to tape this episode. So what's your relationship to Paris Hilton in general and to this

album? Like, where are you? Like, is it one of your kind of like canon faves? Is it something you sort of like

have an appreciation for, but like don't return to that often? Like, where, where's Paris in like

the current Troy 2024 kind of ecosystem? I'll be honest. And it's like, I talk a lot of shit about Paris Hilton, but so it's probably, it's very contradictory of me to have this opinion, which is also very me. But I love this album. And I do kind of listen to it all the time. Like it was an album that when I was introduced to it back in the day, it was probably like a guilty pleasure because I was still indulging at guilty pleasures back in the day. I don't do that anymore. Well, actually, I think that's honestly not to interrupt, but I just do think that that's an important thing to say because we now live in a world where like it's very common for people to be like kind of multi hyphenates and like have a secondary music career. I mean like Addison Ray and even like on some level like Cardi B, you know, there's all these artists where, to whom, like, being a musician is maybe one amongst numerous array of pursuits or elements of someone's stardom. But back then, the idea that Paris Hilton was releasing an album was a guilty pleasure and was seen as kind of like this. People looked down their noses at that in some way. But I like in a way we've kind of like we choose ahead of her time in a sense anyway go on in terms of just the guilty pleasureness of the whole no yeah i think that that's a really that's like the perfect way to put it it was ahead of its time in that sense where it was like it was doomed from the start like people were gonna hate this album no matter it could be mozart and people would still be like this is horrible

what is she doing why is she releasing an album she can't sing blah blah blah and yeah we've definitely

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