The Best (and Worst) Pop Music of 2022 (with NPR's Hazel Cills)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Editor at NPR Music Hazel Cills joins DJ Louie for a thorough rundown of pop music in the year 2022. They talk Beyoncé, Rosalia, Taylor, Muna, Drake, Charli, Kendrick, Bad Bunny, Harry Styles, Lizzo, shifting musical trends (welcome back, dance music!), wonky rollouts, more Beyoncé (of course), list their favorite and least favorite pop albums and songs of the year, and more.
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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. |
| 0:18.4 | This is your host, DJ Louis X 14th, and we're here for another |
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| 0:55.0 | Patreon, Pop Pantheon, All Access for bonus episodes. Most importantly, we're publishing at least |
| 1:00.6 | one new bonus episode of the show per month. We've got episodes where we look at the newest music |
| 1:06.2 | of the moment. There's episodes looking back on past albums that we love from our favorite pop stars like Taylor Swift's reputation. There's some really of the moment. There's episodes looking back on past albums that we love from our favorite |
| 1:11.6 | pop stars like Taylor Swift's reputation. There's some really of the moment pop coverage there. |
| 1:16.6 | There's an episode about the Grammy nominations that came out a couple weeks ago and so much more. |
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