The Winners and Losers of the Touring Boom (with Matthew Perpetua, Zach Schonfeld & Emily Stewart)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
After the pandemic, fans wanted to see their favs (and even their less favs) so much that the concert touring industry boomed, breaking records and culminating in astronomically expensive blockbuster stadium treks from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. But more recently, the live show gambit has gone bust for superstars like Jennifer Lopez, The Black Keys, Justin Timberlake and more. What changed? Fluxblog's Matthew Perpetua, writer Zach Schonfeld and Business Insider's Emily Stewart are here to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:14.7 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.8 | This is your host, DJ Louis, the 14th. |
| 0:20.2 | And I want to remind you to please rate review and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening to it now. We're on social at Pop Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ, L-O-U-A-E. XIV merch is at Poppantheon.com. Our Patreon, where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show is at patreon.com slash Pop pantheon. This week, Russ, my dear friend |
| 0:38.9 | Omri and I are discussing Camilla Cabello's new album CXOXO. So you don't want to miss a insightful and |
| 0:46.3 | very funny conversation about that record. And I want to announce maybe most importantly this week |
| 0:53.1 | that we have just launched a listener survey. |
| 0:56.1 | We are trying to get some insights into what y'all are loving about the show, what you'd |
| 1:00.2 | like to see on the show, just more about all of you. The link for that is in the show notes of |
| 1:04.7 | this episode. So if you have literally two minutes and you take our listener survey, it would be a |
| 1:10.1 | great help to us to help us |
| 1:11.6 | get to know you better and know what you're loving about the show. So again, the link for that is in the |
| 1:16.6 | show notes of this episode. Or you can find it directly at pop pantheon pod.com. Also, our party, |
| 1:23.3 | our new pop pantheon party main pop girls of, is on August 2nd at Parkside Lounge. |
| 1:29.7 | So many of you bought tickets already. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm so excited to see you there. |
| 1:32.7 | There are more tickets available in the show notes of this episode. |
| 1:36.1 | So hop in there and get your tickets to the main pop girls party. |
| 1:39.6 | Also, Gorgeous, gorgeous is having a free silent disco in association with a Lincoln Center, which I still |
| 1:46.8 | can't believe on July 20th from 7 to 11. So I have to see you all at Lincoln Center for Gorgeous |
| 1:52.6 | as part of Lincoln Center Summer for the City series. And our next L.A. party is on July 26th at Los |
| 1:59.4 | Globos and Silver Lake. And tickets for that are in the show |
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