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 the 14th.

And I want to get off by naming some very

quick housekeeping things up top. First of all, please don't forget to rate and review

Pop Pantheon wherever you listen to podcasts. It really helps the show. If you're doing it on

Apple Podcasts, that's the best, but we also will take it wherever you listen. So thank you so much to everybody that's been doing that. I really appreciate it. Please follow us on social media. I'm at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on both Twitter and Instagram. The podcast is also at Pop Pantheon Pod on Instagram. Hop in our Discord channel, the Pop and Pop Panther on Discord channel that is absolutely

legendary at this point. Would love to see you in there. Really great discussions of pop music

going on, of the podcast of current pop topics, great place to be, welcoming place to be.

Link for that will be in the show notes and I will also post them on social. Also, some people have

brought up to me that the Discord link has been broken in some of the episode show notes in the

past. That is now fixed. So if you try to join the Discord in the past but had trouble doing so,

try it now. Check out the Spotify playlist for this and every episode in the show notes of this

episode. And I want to remind everybody that we are putting together a listener mailbag episode and every episode in the show notes of this episode. And I want to remind everybody that

we are putting together a listener mailbag episode. And we're encouraging voice notes this time.

However, we will also accept email submissions. But priority boarding for voice notes. So send

any questions you have about pop pantheon, about pop music in general. If you have disputes with any rankings we've done on the show,

whatever it is, shoot them to us at Pop Pantheon Pod at gmail.com, and we might be playing your voice

on an upcoming episode of the show. So this episode is actually a listener request. We did a contest

while back where anybody who made a comment on Apple podcast about Pod Pantheon could

request a specific episode and we would tally up the requests for the most requested artists and

Usher won that contest and Pop Pantheon delivers on our promises. We said we would fast track an

Usher episode and this was fast tracked by Pop Pantheon standards and it came out so well i am so excited for

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