Hey y'all, DJ Louis here just dropping a preview of our advanced drop of next week's main feed

episode, the best pop songs of 2025 live with Lindsay Weber, Peyton Dix, and Jason Lipschitz.

This is an advance drop for our paid subscribers so you can get it at patreon.com slash pop pantheon

or you can subscribe for the audio only directly in the Apple Podcast app.

This episode will be available on our main feed next Thursday. Enjoy! Hi, everyone, welcome to Pop Panty on After Dark, the podcast, the podcast where we do some over-analysing of all your favorite pop stars and do other stuff.

Can we swear?

Yeah, you could talk. You can talk whatever you want. Okay. Thank you all for being here.

We have an incredible panel of guests. I want to introduce everybody here all the way. Over here, we have Jason Lipschitz. He's the executive director of music at Billboard. What's up? Hey, guys. Jason's here. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to have you. we have Peyton Dix, who has listed her credits as writer, lesbian, and co-host of Let Me Say This.

Not by.

Just for clarity's sake.

Are people confused?

We'll talk about that later.

And of course, you know her, you love her.

She's a writer and co-hosts of her weekly.

It's my dear friend, Lindsay Weber, Lindsay.

My dear friend.

My dear friend.

All right, so we're here tonight to talk about the best pop music of the year, and we're

here to talk about best pop singles.

So what I want to ask you all first is about the experience of making your lists and what

that made you think about pop music over the past year.

Jason, I'm going to kick this to you.

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