WHITNEY HOUSTON: PART 2 (with Jason King)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Dean of the USC Thornton School of Music Jason King returns to Pop Pantheon for the second in our four-part series on the late, great pop Whitney Houston. Louie and Jason dissect Whitney’s unprecedented run of cultural dominance through the '90s, from her iconic Super Bowl 1991 performance to 1992's The Bodyguard, the best-selling soundtrack of all time. They then discuss Whitney’s troubled marriage to Bobby Brown, her continued run of film and soundtrack success with 1995’s Waiting to Exhale and 1996's The Preacher’s Wife, and how her pristine public image, blockbuster commercial success, and messy personal life began to conflict as the '90s wore on.
Join us next week, in which we’ll discuss Whitney’s creative peak in 1998 with My Love Is Your Love, her later era work, her untimely passing, and legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:15.1 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:18.1 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. |
| 0:20.4 | And we have an upcoming party tomorrow night. |
| 0:24.6 | Main Pop Girls at the Parkside Lounge. |
| 0:27.3 | I'll be there all night playing all your favorite divas. |
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| 0:38.8 | First piece of housekeeping, we want to hear from you about which tier of the pantheon you think Whitney Houston belongs in. |
| 0:45.2 | Is it tier one? Is it tier two? Why or why not? We would love if you could send us voice notes |
| 0:49.8 | or written emails to potpantheon pod at gmail.com. If you're voice noting us, please keep it at a manageable length that we can presumably play on air, maybe 90 seconds or less. But we want to hear your arguments. This is a hotly contested thing. We've heard arguments on both sides. The final episode will be us adjudicating that for everybody, but we want to know your opinions and we are going to take it all into account. So again, send us those thoughts to PopPantheon pod at gmail.com and we might be playing some of them on air during our fourth episode of this series. Don't forget to rate review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social media. It's Pop Pantheon Pod. Buy our merch at Poppanpod.com and subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com slash pop |
| 1:28.5 | pantheon for weekly bonus episodes of this show and so much more. You can also get the audio |
| 1:33.8 | only directly in the Apple podcast app. All right. So we're here today for the second of our four |
| 1:39.1 | part series on the legendary Miss Whitney Houston. If you missed last week's episode, that was where we discussed |
| 1:45.9 | Whitney's early life and her run of Titanic successes in the 1980s through 1990s. I'm |
| 1:51.1 | Your Baby Tonight. This episode will pick up with her rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner in 1991 |
| 1:56.5 | and cover her run of three soundtracks with 1992s the bodyguard, 1995s, waiting to exhale, |
| 2:03.5 | and 1996 is the preacher's wife. |
| 2:05.8 | Next week, we will pick up with 1998's My Love is Your Love and discuss the rest of Whitney Houston's career and life. |
| 2:12.2 | And in the final episode, we will be ranking Whitney Houston in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 2:16.5 | So without further ado, here is Whitney Houston, part two. |
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