The Highs and Many, Many Lows of the 2025 VMAs (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, With performances from everyone from Doja Cat to Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga and major awards for Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter, Louie and Russ reflect on the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, the first to air on CBS. It was a show loaded with a lot of stuff but very little that felt essential. The two try to parse apart the purpose and future of the VMAs is an era where both MTV and music videos feel less relevant than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louie here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode. |
| 0:05.3 | If you enjoy this snippet and you want to hear the rest of this episode plus weekly bonus episodes of this podcast, |
| 0:11.0 | you can subscribe at patreon.com slash Pop Pantheon or click the link in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:16.9 | If you're considering subscribing to Pop Pantheon All Access and you use Apple's App Store on your mobile device, |
| 0:22.4 | we recommend not subscribing to Potthian all access using the Patreon app on your phone, |
| 0:27.8 | where Apple is now charging unnecessary fees for new subscribers. |
| 0:32.3 | Instead, go to patreon.com slash Poppantheon on your desktop to subscribe. |
| 0:36.9 | You will still have access to all of the features of |
| 0:39.0 | Patreon, including listening to our bonus episodes on your Apple Podcast app. We wish we had more control over |
| 0:44.0 | this, but sadly we don't. So that's our recommendation to save you a couple bucks. You can also, |
| 0:47.9 | of course, subscribe for the audio only directly here in the Apple Podcasts app. Enjoy this preview. |
| 0:53.7 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon. All Access access the podcast to where we do even more over analyzing of |
| 0:59.4 | all your favorite pop stars and do other stuff too. |
| 1:02.9 | I almost forgot what the intro of this was. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm your host to DJ Louis the 14th. |
| 1:08.2 | Thank you all so much for being subscribers. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm here, of course, with Russ, |
| 1:13.0 | and not only are we here with the sound of Russ, but today we're recording video. Will this |
| 1:18.6 | ever see the light of day? We don't know, but we are giving it a whirl. So, hello, Russ, |
| 1:23.8 | live and in color. Hi, Louie. And in lighting this time, I have put on a ringlight. You know, |
| 1:30.3 | we obviously, we see other podcasters and their little video clips. And we thought, could we |
| 1:36.0 | maybe try to do some of that, at least for the patrons? We're going to test it out a little bit. |
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