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 to DJ Louis X. Louisth. And before I get into the housekeeping,

I want to announce that our next dance party, main pop girls, will be happening on March 21st again

at the Parkside Lounge. And apropos of this episode today, we will definitely be celebrating

Lady Gaga that night. And we also have a few other surprises lined up. You can now get tickets for a limited time. They're at a discount. So grab them while you can. Hosted by our dear friends, Legends Only's Bradley Stern and T-Kyle. So we're so excited to be teaming up with them. It's going to be a great night. So grab your tickets at Poppantheonpod.com or click the link in the show notes of this episode. Gorgeous, gorgeous. My Queer Pop Party is happening in New York City on March 1st. And then it will be happening in L.A. on March 14th. I think we will have announced it by the time this episode comes out. But if we haven't, it will be announced soon. So keep your eye out for that. Tickets also in the show notes of this episode.

Don't forget to rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at's Pop Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V. Merch is at Potthianpod.com.com. Patreon, where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show is at patreon.com slash Pop-Pantheon. this past week, we went long on Teenage Dream talking about all the non-singles on Teenage Dream

and trying to figure out whether the album still feels like a classic.

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And for today, as everybody who listens to this podcast

probably already knows, Lady Gaga has her seventh album coming out Mayhem on March 7th. So in

anticipation of that, Gaga Fever has gripped the nation. And I invited Carrie O'Donnell, Kristen

He and Naomi Zyckner on the podcast to rank Lady Gaga albums. We all are sharing our rankings of

all of Lady Gaga's albums. This was such a fun conversation. It got me so excited and in the mood

for mayhem. And I hope you enjoy it. Pause up, everybody. Hi. Okay, so I'm here with Carrie O'Donnell,

who is the writer and host of Sexy Unique Podcast. Carrie, great to see you. Hi. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. I'm so excited to have you. I'm also here with journalist, musician, and author, Kristen He. Kristen, welcome to the show. Hey, thank you for having me. My pleasure. Glad to have you. And I'm here with Friend of the Pod. She is an editor and host of the radio show New York Naomi. Naomi Zichner. Welcome

back, Naomi. Oh my God. So nice to see you all. So nice to see you. I'm really excited for this

episode, maybe more so than I thought I would be when we were planning it because it seems like

mayhem fever has gripped the nation. Gaga has made her kind of grand return

over the last week starting a couple Sundays ago when she dropped the video for

abracadabra during a mastercard commercial at the Grammys. The world has seemed to eat this up

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