SCISSOR SISTERS (with Fluxblog's Matthew Perpetua)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Happy Pride! To celebrate Pride Month, Fluxblog's Matthew Perpetua joins DJ Louie to talk one of the most iconic gay pop acts of the century, Scissor Sisters. Louie and Matthew talk the history of queer men in mainstream pop, Scissor Sisters' formation in the downtown NYC electroclash scene of the late '90s and early '00s, their fluke first hit, a BeeGees-esque cover of "Comfortably Numb", how their 2004 self-titled debut album played like a expertly made, fun-loving tour through gay music history, why they exploded as pop stars in the UK but remained a cult phenomenon here in America, and how they presaged artists like Robyn and Charli XCX by carving out a space for alternative pop stars stateside. They then talk about their second album, 2006's Ta-Dah, it's myriad of slightly obscure pop historical references, the smash hit and their signature song, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'", their turn towards more sex-forward music on their 2010 Stuart Price-produced masterpiece, Night Work, and Louie shares a bit about what the record meant to him in his personal journey with his sexuality. Next, Louie and Matthew discuss their final album, 2012's Magic Hour, how they mainstreamed the word "kiki" on their gay club hit "Let's Have a Kiki" and the impact they've had on future queer pop stars like Mika, Sam Smith and Lil Nas X, as well as on campier American pop icons who followed in their footsteps like Lady GaGa and Katy Perry. Finally, Louie and Matthew rank Scissor Sisters in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:19.6 | This is your host, DJ Louis XIV. |
| 0:22.2 | Happy Pride Month, everybody. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:25.7 | It's our month. |
| 0:26.8 | Every month should be Pride Month, |
| 0:28.1 | but this is the month. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the month to be gay. |
| 0:31.6 | And on that front, |
| 0:33.1 | I want to share two pieces of information. |
| 0:35.9 | One is that my new queer pop party, as I mentioned on the last |
| 0:41.0 | episode, is having its second installment on Pride Weekend here in L.A. on June 10th at Resident in |
| 0:48.1 | Downtown L.A. I am going to be playing all of your favorite pop music all night. It's going to have an incredible |
| 0:55.1 | crowd of people. There's some performers that might be showing up TBD that are really exciting. |
| 1:00.7 | So I need you to be there. If you're in LA, if you're looking for something really fun to do on |
| 1:05.8 | Pride Weekend, gorgeous, gorgeous, June 10th, resident downtown L.A. The link for tickets will be in the show notes |
| 1:13.4 | of this episode. And I will also post it on our social media channels, which are Pop Pantheon |
| 1:18.0 | Pod on Instagram and DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on both Instagram and Twitter. So I hope to see |
| 1:25.0 | you guys there. Next up, I want to read some of my favorite Apple reviews |
| 1:30.9 | from the last week. This is our newest tradition. This first one comes from CKJ-0145. The podcast, |
| 1:38.9 | PopStans, have waited for. This is exactly the type of conversation. So many of us wish we could |
| 1:43.6 | have with our friends every day. If only our friends cared about pop stars and their eras as much as we did. Amen. Can't wait for a pink episode. Love that suggestion. This one is from Dip Tip, Dip, Dip, Tip, jump in, jump in Tier 1 podcast. Love this show. Love Louie, my favorite music podcast right now. Thank you very much. I've learned so |
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