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.

This is your host, DJ Louie the 14th.

Okay, a couple big announcements to kick us off

here. Our pop party, main pop girls, will be having its first 2026 installment on February 27th. That's a

Friday at our dear old parkside lounge. You can scoop early bird tickets now by going to

Poppantheon pod.com. Going to Instagram and our bio, I'm sure it'll be in our stories too. You can scoop early bird tickets now by going to Poppantionpod.com, going to Instagram and our bio. I'm sure it'll be in our stories too. You can also click the link in the show notes of this episode. I'm so excited for this. We're going to be playing hits by all your favorite main pop girls from Robin to Beyonce to Brittany, Addison, and so forth. It's going to be a ball. So I'll see you there, February 27th at Parkside Lounge. Also, we are doing a mailbag coming up very, very soon. So make sure to send us your questions about pop, about Pop, about Poppantheon pod at gmail.com. We would prefer voice notes so we can hear your lovely voice, but also if you just want to write us in,

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Just this past week, Russ and I shared our predictions for the Grammys, which are happening

this coming Sunday. So get in there and hear what Russ and I have to say about

who's going to win in all these categories and we're probably going to get all of it wrong,

but it's still fun. So that's at patreon.com slash pop pantheon or you can subscribe for the audio

only directly in the Apple podcast app. Okay. So I want to quickly introduce my guests here for a

truly miserable task that we have taken on today.

First, I have, you all know her from her myriad, iconic run at Rolling Stone.

She is now the proprietor of the Brit Pop substack.

It is Brittany Spanos.

Brittany, welcome back to the show.

Thank you for having me.

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