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Breaking news, folks.

We have a new Gaga album on the horizon.

So as all of you know at this point, Pop Pantheon's live show, Katie Perry, Lady Gaga,

and the millennial diva conundrum is happening on Monday, September 30th at Dynasty

Typewriter in Los Angeles. Now, I was already really excited for this show. We were going to be

breaking down 143, talking about Gaga's upcoming film, Joker Folly a duh, and just generally

discussing the state of both of these women's careers in the middle and

latter parts of them and how they interact and compare to one another. And then on Tuesday morning,

Lady Gaga announced that her new album, Harlequin, which is a companion album to Joker Follyadu,

will be released on September 27th, three days before the show. So now not only will this crowd of Los Angeles

pandi droppers be able to listen to myself, Molly Mary O'Brien, Molly Lambert, J. Lonnie, Turner

Williams, and Michael Wood discuss one for three, but we're also going to be discussing a brand

new Lady Gaga album. I have no idea how we're going to get

through all of this material. It is an embarrassment of riches. I literally am beside myself with

excitement to get to break down two albums by two of my canonical pop divas that will be released

within weeks of each other. I mean, this is crazy. We're going to have so

much to say both about these records individually and what they have to say about one another and

compared to one another. It's going to be so much fun. So if you've been on the fence about coming

to the show because maybe you're not a big Katie Perry person or whatever the reason might be,

I hope this Gaga thing might push you over the edge because we have

quite an exciting array of topics to cover it out. A new Katie album and a new Gaga album. I mean, we couldn't

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