What Exactly is a "Flop"? (with Brittany Spanos & Chris Stedman)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Katy Perry's latest album 143 lit the internet ablaze for all the wrong reasons when it dropped earlier this year, mostly because of how wrong it got nearly everything and how hard it underperformed as a result. 143 was a capital-F flop in the classic sense of the term. But what exactly does the moniker "flop" mean when it comes to pop music? What constitutes a true flop? How do pop fans use it? Where did it originate and how has it morphed over time into a term of endearment for diehards, especially queer ones? All that and more in this fascinating conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:14.0 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.3 | This is your host, DJ Louis, the 14th. |
| 0:20.6 | And don't forget to rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social at Pop Pantheon pod. I'm a DJ, L-O-U-A-E-X-I-V on Twitter and Instagram, merch at Poppantheon.com, Patreon at Patreon.com for this week's B-Side, we have a really fun episode where Brittany Spanos, Chris Stedbittman, and myself |
| 0:37.8 | got together to talk about flops. What makes a flop? How does flop morph through history as a term |
| 0:43.6 | in pop music and eventually into one of endearment, especially for queer people? This was an |
| 0:48.3 | incredibly fun conversation that covers everything from Bionic to American Life to Joanne to 143. |
| 0:55.4 | And I really enjoyed having it. |
| 0:57.1 | I hope you enjoy listening to it. |
| 0:58.4 | Stay well. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm thinking of you. |
| 1:00.7 | Enjoy this episode. |
| 1:02.5 | All right. |
| 1:03.2 | So I am here once again with senior writer from Rolling Stone, Brittany Spanos. |
| 1:08.0 | Brittany, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:10.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:11.1 | And from long ago in our archives, |
| 1:13.7 | it is writer and host of the podcast Unread. |
| 1:16.9 | Chris Stedman. |
| 1:17.9 | Chris, welcome back. |
| 1:19.4 | Thanks for having me again. |
| 1:20.8 | Chris was on the second episode of Pop Pantheon ever. |
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