Raye’s This Music May Contain Hope + Slayyyter’s Worst Girl in America (with Steffanee Wang) (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Louie and Russ are joined by The Fader's Steffanee Wang to break down new albums from Raye and Slayyyter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louie here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode. |
| 0:05.2 | If you enjoy this snippet and you want to hear the rest of this episode plus weekly bonus episodes of this podcast, you can subscribe at patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon or click the link in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:16.9 | If you're considering subscribing to Pop Pantheon All Access and you use Apple's App Store on your mobile device, we recommend not subscribing to Potanthian all access using the Patreon app on your phone, where Apple is now charging unnecessary fees for new subscribers. |
| 0:32.3 | Instead, go to Patreon.com slash Poppanthian on your desktop to subscribe. |
| 0:36.9 | You will still have access to all of the features of Patreon, including listening to our bonus episodes on your Apple Podcast app. We wish we had more control over this, but sadly we don't. So that's our recommendation to save you a couple bucks. You can also, of course, subscribe for the audio only directly here in the Apple Podcasts app. Enjoy this preview. Welcome to Pop Pantheon. I'll access the podcast where we do even more over-analyzing of all your favorite pop stars and to other stuff too. This is your host, DJ Louis XIV. Thank you all so much for being subscribers. And I, of course, am here with my worst girl in America. It's Russ Martin, Russ. I know this is a heady. |
| 1:11.0 | These are heady days for you. |
| 1:12.4 | I want to provide space for you to process. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm here once again to crank it. |
| 1:18.3 | Last Friday, so the last Friday in March, |
| 1:21.9 | we finally ended the pop music drought, |
| 1:24.6 | and we got four big albums. |
| 1:26.9 | Last week we broke down two of them. This week we are |
| 1:29.3 | going to break down two more. We called in a guest Stephanie Wang, editorial director at The Fader. |
| 1:37.4 | Welcome to the show, Stephanie. Thanks so much for having me. Huge fan. It is a delight to have you |
| 1:43.9 | here. We are going to be breaking down both |
| 1:47.0 | Ray and Slater's new records. Let's have a guest pick. Stephanie, what do you want to tackle first? |
| 1:55.2 | Which of these albums? Let's do Ray. I feel like I have more to say about that. Perfect. |
| 2:01.4 | We love that. |
| 2:03.0 | A little lore that we will share with you is at the end of every year, we have an episode |
| 2:08.2 | called The Top of the Flops, and we give an award for stopping flopping. |
| 2:13.5 | And this most recent year, we have selected Ray. |
| 2:16.0 | So we have a big bet running on this record to see |
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