The Best Max Martin Songs of All Time (with Aisha Harris, Molly Mary O'Brien, & Sam Murphy)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Max Martin is the biggest pop producer of all time, having crafted hits across three decades for everyone from Britney and Backstreet Boys to Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Ariana Grande and so many more. He recently re-teamed with Taylor for her 12th album, The Life of Showgirl, a record that many believe didn't reflect his best work but also made us wonder: What is?
Pop Pantheon favs Aisha Harris, Molly Mary O'Brien, and Sam Murphy return for a roundtable with DJ Louie to break down the secret sauce to Max's 30 years of in the biz, before each sharing their top 5 Max songs of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon the podcast, where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:15.4 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:18.6 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. |
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| 0:39.1 | You can also subscribe for the audio only directly in the Apple Podcast app. |
| 0:43.9 | All right. First up, big announcement from us. I'm so excited about this. We've been cooking it up for a while. |
| 0:49.8 | But we are continuing our yearly tradition of our best pop of the year live shows. |
| 0:55.7 | We did this last year. |
| 0:57.0 | This year, our live show is going to be on December 9th at the Parkside Lounge in the East Village. |
| 1:02.8 | You know it. |
| 1:03.4 | You love it. |
| 1:03.9 | Our guests lineup for this show is so incredible. |
| 1:07.5 | We have The New York Times as Karen Gans coming to join us on stage. We have Ira Madison |
| 1:13.1 | the third, longtime friend of the pod. And we have the New Yorkers Doreen San Felix. One of our |
| 1:19.9 | favorite guests ever. This is literally a dream lineup. I am so excited. We're all going to be |
| 1:25.5 | on stage sharing our favorite pop music of the year. We're going to have some great conversations. We're going to laugh. We're going to have fun. I am so excited about this. Grab your tickets. They're going to go fast. And the early bird price is only going to last for a little while. The tickets are available at pop pantheon pod.com. We will also put the link to buy the tickets in the show notes of this episode. And we will also post on our social media. |
| 1:46.2 | I cannot wait to see my New York pop pantheon listeners at this show, December 9th at the Parkside Lounge. |
| 1:54.1 | All right, I am here today with an absolute panoply of pop pantheon faves. |
| 1:59.9 | We'll start out as my Zoom screen is lined up right now with Molly Mary O'Brien. Molly, welcome back to the show. Oh my goodness. As always, thank you so much for having me. I was looking forward to this for weeks. Me too. I'm so excited. We also have one of our faves Sam Murphy's back in the house. Sam, good to see you. Thank you. I'm so happy to be |
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