The Best Diane Warren Songs of All Time (with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber) (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Happy Oscars! To celebrate the big day and our fav prolific Oscars also-ran, we're dropping All Access early and drafting the 20 best Diane Warren songs of all time with our pals Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber of Who? Weekly. Tell us your Diane favs in the comments and enjoy this wild ride through one of the best songwriting discographies in pop history.
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| 0:51.5 | app. Enjoy this preview. This was such a fun thing to prepare for because this is when pop songs were fucking pop |
| 0:58.7 | songs. |
| 0:59.1 | Like I miss songs that are like this engineered to just like fucking take you there. |
| 1:04.5 | Right. |
| 1:04.8 | Like every chorus is just like absolutely bombastic, epic, like over the top like like melodrama, melody. Like, they are broad, |
| 1:14.4 | Lindsay. They are made to relate to as many people as possible. And it made me miss an era of pop |
| 1:19.4 | that was like engineered at that as opposed to sort of this like auteur narrative that we are |
| 1:25.5 | in right now. Like I just miss like every single one of her best songs is just like an epic broad |
| 1:31.2 | melodrama that is just focused on like getting in your mind, getting stuck in your brain. |
| 1:36.4 | Like that is the goal. |
| 1:37.7 | And they are so great as a result. |
| 1:40.4 | And like I just feel like we don't get enough pop music like what Diane Warren does anymore. |
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