The Best Pop of 2025 So Far (with Legends Only's Bradley Stern)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Host of the Legends Only podcast Bradley Stern returns to Pop Pantheon to discuss the best pop songs of 2025 so far. First, Louie and Bradley discuss the broader trends— or perhaps the broader lack of trends— happening in pop music so far this year, before each sharing their list of favorites from the first half of 2025.
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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. |
| 0:17.1 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. Louis X. Reminding you to please rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon, this is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. Reminding you to please rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening |
| 0:22.9 | to it now. |
| 0:23.5 | Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. |
| 0:25.6 | We have merch at Poppantheonpod.com and our Patreon channel, Pop Pantheon all access, |
| 0:30.8 | where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show is available at patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:37.4 | A couple quick party updates. Gorgeous, gorgeous. My slash pop pantheon. |
| 0:39.4 | A couple quick party updates. |
| 0:40.2 | Gorgeous, gorgeous. |
| 0:44.6 | My queer pop party is having pride parties on June 20th in L.A. |
| 0:48.7 | and June 27th in New York so you can get your tickets for both of those in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:57.1 | And pertinent to today, Pop Pantheon is throwing our next main pop girls pride edition on June 7th at Parkside Lounge. And today is actually your last day to get discounted advanced tickets |
| 1:04.0 | before the price goes up a bit tomorrow. So if you haven't grabbed your ticket yet, highly |
| 1:09.1 | recommend you do so today. And my guest today, host of |
| 1:13.6 | Legends Only and the writer behind Mews, Bradley Stern, friend of the show, will be co-hosting that party. |
| 1:19.6 | First of all, Bradley, welcome to the show. Hi, how you doing? I'm so good, good to be with you. |
| 1:25.2 | Last I saw you was that main pop girls. That's right. And we had so much fun even though it was 3,000 degrees inside of there. It was. You did warn me. You or somebody else warned me. And we walked in and it was like sub-arctic. And I was like, well, somebody lied that because this is freezing. And then by the end of the night, it was like peeling layers off. Also, I stupidly opted for leather pants. |
| 1:46.3 | That was a choice. |
| 1:47.2 | You won't do that again. |
| 1:48.1 | I probably will. |
| 1:51.4 | I love it. |
| 1:52.3 | Okay. |
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