Hey y'all, DJ Louis here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode

in which Russ and I are breaking down Troy Savon's third album, Something to Give Each Other,

which came out on Friday.

Russ and I had very differing opinions on this music, which made for a really dynamic conversation

that eventually led us to discussing the posity of queer representation

in pop music still to this day and the burdensome expectations that are placed on every

release by a queer pop figure.

So this is a preview if you like this and you want to hear the rest of the episode

along with at least three bonus episodes of this podcast per month, you can subscribe at

patreon.com slash pop pantheon or click the link in the show notes of this episode. So here is a preview

of my conversation about something to give each other with Russ. If you were to think of Bloom, of course, having moments that sort of explore the ecstasy

of the gay romantic and sexual experience, and then also undercutting it with a lot of sort

of heartbreak pining, et cetera, that feels like also part of the gay experience, but perhaps

something that like maybe could frustrate certain modern gay listeners in terms of like

wanting to hear music that like doesn't always have to have that going on. I think that this

new record goes a pretty far way in sort of mitigating of that issue. I'm not saying that's your

issue, but I do think that was a critique

that I saw leveled against Bloom,

even in some reviews of the new album.

And I think that it's interesting

how aggressively,

for an album that's not very aggressive,

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