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 X. And we've arrived in another B-side episode. Before we get into that, please don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to Pop Pantheon wherever you get your podcast. We're going to pick our favorite rating of the month on Apple Podcasts in our next episode, and that person's going to win a free niche legend dad hat. So we're looking at all of your reviews. Thank you so much to everyone that continues to do that we really appreciate it follow us on social media at pop pantheon pod

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And as a special treat, just as last weekend, we published our latest Pop Pantheon All Access

episode.

And it's one of my favorites we've done yet.

It is a deep dive into my favorite pop star Janet Jackson's album, The Velvet Rope, my favorite album of hers, with Pop Pantheon favorite, Rich Josbiak. It's really got all the elements of a great Pot Pantheon episode in the mix there. And it came out so well. We talk about literally all of the songs on the record, all of the different themes, the way it deals with introspection, the timeless sound and innovative production from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to how it was positioned in jazz career, how its legacy has evolved over time. It was such a great conversation. And as a little treat at the end of this episode, I'm going to be including a clip from our episode on the Velvet Rope from our Patreon at the end of the episode. So stay tuned once the song plays at the end and you can listen to a little preview of that. And if you like it, go to patreon.com slash pop pantheon and sign up at the icon tier to get access to all of our bonus content. Or you can click the link in the show notes of this episode, which will also lead you to the same place. So looking forward to

seeing you guys over on Pop Pantheon All Access. This episode is one, admittedly, that we were

trying to get out by the end of the year, but we got kind of bogged down by Madonna stuff. So it's

coming out a little bit later than expected, but it's a very important episode of the show,

which is something I'm going to return to periodically, which is a reassessment of our ranking. So we did this back in April 22,

up through, I think, the Christina episode. I'm not quite sure exactly where it left off. But we

looked back at the rankings. We kind of took into assessment anything that's changed in Popstar's

career since we

did the episodes on them, whether my feelings have evolved out of the heat of the moment,

to sort of see where we're at with the rankings. So we did that again, only this time we solicited

calls from our listeners to dispute rankings that they feel I got wrong on the show. So we pick up

here with Kesha's episode because I have something to say about

that. And we move through all of the episodes through Katie's at the end of 22. Madonna, obviously,

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