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So last week, DJ Louis and Brad sat down and talked about the best pop of the year

so far. I wanted to do something a little bit different. So I have called in a friend, Rolling

Stones, Larisha Paul. Larisha, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me. So what I wanted to

do was put the listeners on to some new music, show them some stuff that they might not have heard, that they might have missed.

We are constantly being bombarded with so many new songs and is very easy for songs to slip through the cracks, particularly if there's not a big marketing push behind them for

stuff that is maybe a little bit more niche, a little bit overlooked, or something going on

sort of on the fringes of the mainstream pop that we cover so much on this. Larisha, you are so

plugged into what is happening in pop, and you have written about some of my favorite artists that we're going to discuss about today.

So I thought that you'd be the perfect person to come on.

In the past, you have done the best pop exercise.

Given that this is a little bit of a different exercise that I have asked you to do with me,

I'm curious how you approach this and what you're seeing

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