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 X. Louis X. And it's a big day on Pop Pantheon. This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, and it's a big day on Pop Pantheon.

We are launching our Prince series today.

I will explain more about that in a second, but man, I'm so excited about what we have coming

for you guys.

Before I get into that, please don't forget to rate review and subscribe to Pop Pantheon

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And of course, my queer pop party, gorgeous, gorgeous is having its second New York installment

a week from this coming Saturday, September 16th at the Sultan Room in Bushwick.

So I hope to see some of you guys at that gorgeous gorgeous in New York City.

I can't wait for that. And also our next LA party will be September 29th at resident in downtown

Los Angeles. Tickets for both of those parties are available in the show notes of this episode.

So I hope I see some of you guys on the West and the East Coast installments of Gorgeous.

Finally, if you missed last week's announcement, we are having our first live show.

The show is called Pop Pantheon Live, Britney's Memoir, Music, and Legacy.

It will be at the Crawford Family Auditorium in Pasadena, and it's being presented in conjunction

with LAist. And we're going to be talking about Britney's memoir, and we're going to be talking about her music and her legacy as the title imparts. And I have a series of great guests, including Jason King, Troy McKee, and Kirby Johnson coming to join me for that discussion. Plus, we're going to be doing a special Britney installment of Gorgeous Gorgeous in the parking lot after the show if you're on the west coast or if you even want to make a little pilgrimage

to the l a great excuse to do so tickets will be available to pot pantheon live in the show notes of

this episode and they're also available in our bios on social media so lots of stuff coming up lots

of gorgeous gorgeouses our first live show, et cetera.

So this is a very exciting little moment for me and for us.

And that extends into this week's episode, which will be the first of three new episodes we

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