Was There a Song of Summer?
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Louie and Russ look back on 2025's wonky summer of pop music, discuss whether there was any true song of summer this year, and look at Billboard's definitive rankings before sifting back through their bets from this spring to see who got the most right about Song of Summer 2025.
Grab tix to Main Pop Girls on Oct. 3 at Parkside Lounge
Grab tix to Gorgeous Gorgeous on Sept. 12 at The Sultan Room
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:17.4 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. |
| 0:19.4 | The 14th, reminding you to please rate review and |
| 0:21.8 | subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media at |
| 0:26.4 | Pop Pantheon Pod by our merch at Poppantheonpod.com and subscribe to our Patreon channel, |
| 0:32.5 | Pop Pantheon all access where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show. This past week, Russ and I got together to touch quickly on Taylor Swift and Travis |
| 0:41.9 | Kelsey's engagement before diving deep on Sabrina Carpenter's seventh studio album, |
| 0:47.7 | Man's Best Friend, which dropped last week. |
| 0:50.1 | So you won't want to miss that. |
| 0:51.3 | You can get all of that plus our weekly show at patreon.com slash pop pantheon or you can subscribe for the audio only directly in the Apple podcast app. |
| 1:01.1 | Also, I'm here with Russ and together we're very excited to announce that the next installment of our dance party, main pop girls, will be making its grand return to the Parkside Lounge in the East Village on October 3rd. |
| 1:17.0 | That's Friday, October 3rd. |
| 1:18.9 | We're really excited about that. |
| 1:20.6 | Early bird tickets are available for that now. |
| 1:23.3 | I'll be playing all your favorite main pop girls all night. |
| 1:25.8 | And that will be the same day as the release of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl. So maybe more TK on that. Anyway, it's going to be a great party. Russ, do you have anything to add about that that I missed? Louie, do you feel that you live the life of a showgirl? Some days. And some days I really don't, to be honest with you. |
| 1:45.8 | No, I think of that. |
| 1:46.9 | Is it very excited to be back at Parkside, Early Bird, Snaggum before they are gone? |
| 1:54.1 | At our website, right? |
| 1:55.2 | Pa pantheonpod.com. |
| 1:56.4 | That's where the tickets are at, as I recall. |
| 1:58.1 | That is correct. |
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