Rihanna Super Bowl Setlist Draft Extravaganza!! (with Lindsey Weber, Jason Lipshutz & Julianne Escobedo Shepherd)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
For this week's B-Side, DJ Louie is joined by a literal Navy of Pop Pantheon All-Stars- Who? Weekly's Lindsey Weber, Billboard's Jason Lipshutz and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd- to preview Rihanna's epic return to music at Super Bowl LVII, this Sunday in Phoenix, Arizona! They talk all the big questions: Why now? What does it portend for new Rihanna music? What made her change her hard "no" to the NFL over their treatment of Colin Kaepernick?
Then, the main event: Louie, Lindsey, Jason and Julianne try to figure which of Rihanna's ~40 hit songs she'll pull out for this 12-14 minute set, how she'll structure it to showcase the diversity and generational strength of her discography and pontificate on guests she could plausibly bring out to join her on stage.
Finally, the crew discusses whether Rihanna's Pop Pantheon tier ranking has shifted from cuspy 2-1, where she was ranked in our series with Julianne back in December 2021, and if this performance- and the promise of new music- has the potential to finally elevate Rihanna, once and for all, to Tier 1 of the Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:14.5 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. This is your host, DJ Louis |
| 0:19.5 | the 14th, coming at you a little bit early this week, |
| 0:22.8 | more on that to come. And please don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to Pop Pantheon |
| 0:27.7 | wherever you get your podcasts. Also, follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. And me at |
| 0:33.2 | DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on Instagram and Twitter. Also, we've got merch available at potpampionpod.com. |
| 0:41.9 | So get your niche legend dad hat. |
| 0:44.2 | Get your mirror superstar t-shirt over there. |
| 0:47.3 | And finally, last piece of housekeeping, my queer pop party, |
| 0:52.4 | Gorgeous Gorgeous, is happening this Friday, February 10th in |
| 0:57.6 | LA, at Resident in downtown, and it's very germane to today's topic because it is Super Bowl |
| 1:03.8 | weekend, more on that TK, and at Gorgeous Gorgeous, this weekend we are doing Rihanna Night. |
| 1:12.3 | So I'll be playing all of your favorite Rihanna songs. Actually, I'll be playing all Rihanna songs that I can think of. So it's Rihanna, |
| 1:17.8 | Rihanna and Friends, Rianna extended universe, but main focus is Queen Rhee herself. So come to |
| 1:24.5 | Gorgeous Gorgeous, this Friday night at Resident. I will link out in the show notes for tickets. |
| 1:30.1 | If you are a Pop Pantheon All Access Patreon subscriber at the icon tier, |
| 1:35.9 | you have access to the guest list. |
| 1:37.6 | Please DM on Patreon if you'd like to get access to the guest list for our Pop Pantheon |
| 1:43.5 | all access folks. Speaking of Pop Pantheon All Access folks. |
| 1:44.7 | Speaking of Pop Pantheon All Access, the Grammys were this past Sunday. |
| 1:49.8 | They were an extremely traumatizing event for anybody that cares about Beyonce or having an awards institution that doesn't feel inherently racist. And as a result of those things, |
| 2:05.5 | me and Russ got on the horn the morning after to do an entire wrap-up of the show. We talk about |
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