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DJ Louis the 14th, reminding you that we have a party coming up a week from tomorrow on February 1st. This is Pop Pantheon. This is your host. DJ Louis the 14th, reminding you that we have a party coming up a week from tomorrow on February 1st. This is Pop Pantheon presents main pop girls at Parkside Lounge. I'll be DJing all your favorite main pop girls all night and our friends Brittany Spanos and Larissa Paul from Rolling Stone will be hosting. I hope to see all my New York girlies there. It's going to be

such a fun night. We've already sold so many tickets. So it's going to be a blowout. And I can't

wait for that night. If you want to buy tickets, they're available in the show notes of this episode.

And in our social media bios on Instagram. Next up, we are putting together a new mailbag episode.

So if you have questions about Pop, about the Pop Pantheon, about this podcast, about Popstars, whatever, you can send them in to Pop Pantheon Pod at gmail.com.

We prefer voice notes, but we will also take written questions.

So get those questions in if there's something you want us to talk about on our upcoming listener mailbag

episode. Also, the first gorgeous gorgeous of 2025 is happening in Los Angeles on February 14th.

This will be our Valentine's Day party. We'll also be donating a portion of the proceeds to

LA Wildfire Relief, so I'm really excited about that. I believe this will be announced by the time this episode drops. If it's not, it will be announced soon after that. I will include the ticket link in the show notes of this episode. When it's available, it's probably already there. So check for that. Also, we'll be on social media. As always, don't forget to rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon pod. I'm at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V. Merch is at Poppantheon.com. And our Patreon channel where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show is available at patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon. Just this last week, we had our friend Annie Zaleski on the show to deep dive on the 10-year anniversary of Madonna's 13th studio album Rebel

Heart, so you don't want to miss that. You can also get the show audio only directly in the

Apple Podcast app if you subscribe there. So patreon.com slash propan, show notes of this episode

directly in the Apple Podcast app. Today, it is now 2025. We are halfway through the 2020s, and so we decided to gather

a absolutely venerated pop pantheon, all-star team to count down the best pop albums of the 2020s

so far. So the New York Times show, Koss Carelli, NPR's Aisha Harris, and YouTuber Mike

the Snare, and I got together. We talked about the state of the

album this decade so far, what are the trends we're seeing, how is the format functioning, and then

we each have our lists of our top five albums of the 2020s. It was one of the most fun discussions

I can remember having in recent memory, and I hope you enjoy it too. Okay, so I am here with a dream team panel of pop pantheon faves. First up, we have critic, author, and host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. It's Aisha Harris. Aisha, welcome back to the show. Hey, thank you for having me. So glad to see you. We, of course, also have New York Times Culture Reporter and co-host of the New York Times Popcast podcast podcast. It's Joe Coscarelli. Joe, welcome back. Hey, thank you so much. It's been a while. It has been. I'm so glad to see you. Can't wait to hear what's on your list. I'm greedy for everybody's. And we have Nick Konovis, aka Mike the Snare, producer, musician, and creator of his eponymous YouTube channel,

Nick, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me. It's a blast to be here already.

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