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 Louis

14th, and I want to remind you to rate, review,

and subscribe to Pop Pantheon wherever you get your podcast. And don't forget to follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod and me at DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-V on both Twitter and Instagram. We have March available in our shop at Poppantheonpod.com, our niche legend Dad Hat or your Mir's Superstar t-shirt.

And also don't forget that we are assessing all the comments on Apple Podcasts in the month of

February.

And our favorite. pod.com, our niche legend dad hat or your mere super star t-shirt. And also, don't forget that we are

assessing all the comments on Apple Podcasts in the month of February. And our favorite comment

is going to get red on air. And we'll send you a free niche legend dad hat. So get on that.

Don't forget to do that. Lastly, Pop Pantheon, all access, our Patreon channel. We just posted

a new episode, a game that Russ and I love to play called

Step Up, Step Down, where we talk about recent events and pop stars careers and whether they

constitute a step up or a step down in their Pantheon ranking. This week we're talking about

Siza. We're talking about Kim Petrus. We're talking about Rihanna and we're talking about Miley Cyrus.

And it was such a fun episode. And as a little bonus, I'm going to include a little segment of that episode at the end of this one. So when you get to the end of the episode after the music plays, stay tuned for a little segment of this week's Patreon episode step up, step down. And if you enjoy what you hear, you can go to patreon.com slash poppan and sign up or I will include

the link in the show notes and you can click there sign up at the icon tier for all of our bonus content

access to our discord and so much more all right so this is another b-side episode of the show I brought

on my friend Dan runcy who hosts the Trappital podcast and sends out the

Trappital newsletter. He's a music biz whiz, more or less. And one thing that comes up on the show so

much, obviously, is streaming. The state of streaming, the way that streaming has impacted

the way that our favorite pop stars release music, even the ways that they

make music, the way that it has restructured the sheer nature of pop star. I'm across the board,

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