The Best Pop Albums of 2025 LIVE! (with Ira Madison III, Doreen St. Félix, & Caryn Ganz)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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On Tuesday night in New York City, DJ Louie gathered an all-star panel— critic and best-selling author Ira Madison III, writer and critic Doreen St. Félix, and New York Times Pop Music Editor Caryn Ganz— live on stage to break down of their favorite pop albums of 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Russ, why are we doing a Christmas ad? |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Jewish. |
| 0:06.5 | That's actually non-denominational, royalty-free holiday season sounds. |
| 0:11.0 | But no matter what you celebrate this December, I actually have the perfect gift for you. |
| 0:16.0 | Louie, can you guess what it is? |
| 0:17.0 | It's our Patreon. We're doing an ad for our Patreon. |
| 0:20.0 | That's right, Lou Louis. But did you know |
| 0:22.6 | that you can actually gift a subscription to Pop Pantheon All Access? Send it to your bestie, |
| 0:27.5 | your lover, your age inappropriate workwife. It is the perfect gift for the pop music lover in your |
| 0:33.0 | life. Or the perfect gift for you. Just subtly suggested to anyone who might be shopping for you this holiday season. |
| 0:40.2 | Go to patreon.com slash pop pantheon slash gift to give the gift of us. |
| 0:46.7 | Happy holidays. |
| 0:48.1 | And to all a good night. Hi, 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. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm your host, DJ Louis the 14th. |
| 1:13.1 | Thank you all so much for being here. |
| 1:15.1 | We're so excited. |
| 1:18.1 | We have an amazing panel of guests here. |
| 1:21.5 | First up, we have the New York Times pop music editor herself, |
| 1:23.4 | the purveyor of Ganscore. |
| 1:25.5 | It's Karen Gans, Karen. |
| 1:28.9 | Karen, do you have a microphone? |
| 1:32.2 | You might have. |
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