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Where Are All the Queer Male Superstars? (with USC's Jason King)
55 mins; April 17, 2025
Gagachella + new songs from Lana Del Rey, Miley Cyrus & more (with Nora Princiotti) (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; April 15, 2025
Are Lady Gaga, Drake, & Selena Gomez Moving Up or Down in the Pop Pantheon?
58 mins; April 10, 2025
Gaga Mailbag! + Kylie's Tour & Louie's Book (Patreon Preview)
12 mins; April 07, 2025
The Best Pop Songs of the 2020s So Far (with Shaad D'Souza, Rob Harvilla, & Puja Patel)
101 hours 27 mins; April 03, 2025
One Year of Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine + Brighter Days Ahead (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; March 31, 2025
Is Britney Spears Tier 1? (with Molly Mary O'Brien, Jason King, Doreen St. FĂ©lix, Ann Powers, Caryn Ganz, & Troy McEady)
120 hours 16 mins; March 27, 2025
BRITNEY SPEARS: PART 4 (with Beyond the Blinds' Troy McEady)
147 hours 59 mins; March 20, 2025
Chappell Roan Returns + New Music From Lil Nas X, Haim & Lizzo (Patreon Preview)
12 mins; March 17, 2025
BRITNEY SPEARS: PART 3 (with The New York Times' Caryn Ganz)
134 hours 27 mins; March 13, 2025
Reborn This Way: Lady Gaga Goes Back to Basics on Mayhem (with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber) (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; March 10, 2025
BRITNEY SPEARS: PART 2 (with NPR's Ann Powers)
132 hours 0 mins; March 06, 2025
BRITNEY SPEARS: PART 1 (with The New Yorker's Doreen St. FĂ©lix)
155 hours 40 mins; February 27, 2025
The Vacuous Comforts of Tate McRae's So Close to What (with Steven J. Horowitz) (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; February 24, 2025
Ranking Every Lady Gaga Album (with Carey O'Donnell, Kristen S. HĂ© & Naomi Zeichner)
94 hours 24 mins; February 20, 2025
Is Katy Perry's Teenage Dream a Classic Without Its Singles? (Patreon Preview)
9 mins; February 17, 2025
Listener Mailbag! Olivia Rodrigo's Next Move, Cher, Gaga, the Lack of Gay Male Pop Stars & More
51 mins; February 13, 2025
Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl (RIP Drake!) + New Music from Tate McRae, Doechii & More (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; February 10, 2025
KENDRICK LAMAR: PART 2 (with Stephen Kearse)
126 hours 6 mins; February 06, 2025
Are the Grammys Good Now? Plus "Abracadabra" Reactions! (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; February 03, 2025
KENDRICK LAMAR: PART 1 (with Rolling Stone's Mankaprr Conteh)
132 hours 16 mins; January 30, 2025
Grammy Predictions + FKA Twigs' Eusexua (with Rich Juzwiak) (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; January 28, 2025
The Best Pop Albums of the 2020s So Far (with Joe Coscarelli, Aisha Harris & Mic The Snare)
102 hours 45 mins; January 23, 2025
Madonna's Rebel Heart is 10. Has It Aged Well? (with Annie Zaleski) (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; January 20, 2025
CHER: PART 2 (with Hit Parade's Chris Molanphy)
107 hours 8 mins; January 16, 2025
CHER: PART 1 (with Hit Parade's Chris Molanphy)
96 hours 19 mins; January 09, 2025
Catching Up on Beyoncé's Xmas Performance & Sza's Lana (with Connor Garel) (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; January 06, 2025
Sabrina Carpenter Hits the Short 'n Sweet Spot (Originally Published on Patreon on 9/2/2024)
53 mins; January 02, 2025
Reacting to MORE of Your Unpopular Opinions About Dua Lipa, Katy Perry & More! (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; December 30, 2024
Second Spin: BEYONCÉ PART 3 (with Dr. Daphne Brooks)
109 hours 23 mins; December 24, 2024
2024 Rap Up: Doechii, GloRilla, Meg Thee Stallion & more (with Clover Hope) (Patreon preview)
10 mins; December 23, 2024
What Pantheon Rankings Did We Get Wrong in 2024?
66 hours 8 mins; December 19, 2024
Our Best and Worst Concerts of 2024 (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; December 16, 2024
The Best Pop Albums of 2024 LIVE! (with Sam Murphy, Larisha Paul & Nora Princiotti)
92 hours 49 mins; December 12, 2024
Top of the Flops 2024! (with Omri Rolan) (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; December 09, 2024
The Best Pop Songs of 2024 LIVE! (with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Jason P. Frank & Nora Princiotti)
71 hours 36 mins; December 05, 2024
A Convo About Kendrick Lamar's GNX But Also Taylor, Drake, Jack Antonoff & More (with Tom Breihan) (Patreon Preview)
9 mins; December 02, 2024
Second Spin: ROBYN (with The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino)
78 hours 21 mins; November 28, 2024
Will Wicked Make Ariana Grande a Movie Star? (with Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson) (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; November 25, 2024
ADELE: PART 2 (with Michael Cragg)
93 hours 5 mins; November 21, 2024
ADELE: PART 1 (with The New York Times' Leah Greenblatt)
110 hours 54 mins; November 14, 2024
Grammy Nominations Reactions + Is "Disease" a Flop? + More (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; November 11, 2024
What Exactly is a "Flop"? (with Brittany Spanos & Chris Stedman)
59 mins; November 07, 2024
Our 2024 Grammy Nomination Predictions: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan & More (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; November 04, 2024
KELIS (with Variety's Steven J. Horowitz)
116 hours 16 mins; October 31, 2024
NYC LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! + Lady Gaga Returns plus New Music from Addison Rae and Halsey (Patreon Preview)
14 mins; October 28, 2024
Reacting to Your Unpopular Pop Opinions About Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears & More (with Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul)
77 hours 2 mins; October 24, 2024
CHARLI XCX: PART 3 (with Shaad D'Souza)
105 hours 12 mins; October 17, 2024
pop pantheon and it's about charli xcx's brat remix album featuring reanna cruz (patreon preview)
12 mins; October 14, 2024
CHARLI XCX: PART 2 (with Pitchfork's Anna Gaca)
107 hours 47 mins; October 10, 2024
Folie Ă  Deux is Bad. What's Next for Lady Gaga's Acting Career? (with Variety's Daniel D'addario) (Patreon Preview)
9 mins; October 09, 2024
CHARLI XCX: PART 1 (with i-D's Owen Myers)
107 hours 56 mins; October 03, 2024
Live! Katy Perry's 143, Lady Gaga's Harlequin & The Millennial Diva Conundrum (with Molly Lambert, Molly Mary O'Brien, Jaelani Turner-Williams & Mikael Wood) (Patreon Preview)
13 mins; October 01, 2024
The 10 Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century (with Sam Murphy & Rich Juzwiak)
91 hours 45 mins; September 26, 2024
The Visceral and Meta Pleasures of Charli XCX and Troye Sivan's Sweat Tour (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; September 25, 2024
BACKSTREET BOYS VS. *NSYNC (with NPR's Aisha Harris)
148 hours 25 mins; September 19, 2024
VMAs Recap: Chappell, Sabrina, Katy, Taylor & More! (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; September 12, 2024
What is the Pop Pantheon?
71 hours 41 mins; September 12, 2024
MEGHAN TRAINOR (with Who? Weekly's Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber)
122 hours 21 mins; September 05, 2024
Sabrina Carpenter Hits the Short 'n Sweet Spot (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; September 02, 2024
Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter is a Genre Explosion (with Danielle Amir Jackson) (Originally Published on Patreon on 4/1/2024)
59 mins; August 29, 2024
Listener Mailbag: Brat, Rihanna, Divas Live, Louie's Weird Vocabulary & More!
57 mins; August 22, 2024
Tinashe Meditates on Love and Sex on Quantum Baby with Kyann-Siann Williams (Patreon Preview)
8 mins; August 20, 2024
TINASHE (with The Cut's Cat Zhang)
105 hours 58 mins; August 15, 2024
Paris Hilton Saw the Future on Paris (with Troy McEady) (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; August 12, 2024
New Pop Girl Power Ranking ft. Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan & More (with Mikael Wood & Jason P. Frank)
96 hours 29 mins; August 08, 2024
LA LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! Talking Katy & Gaga at Dynasty Typewriter on 9/30
1 min; August 06, 2024
MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 4: LEGACY (with Dr. Fredara Hadley)
143 hours 41 mins; August 01, 2024
Ice Spice's Y2K Is Surprisingly 2024 Coded (with Nadirah Simmons) (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; July 29, 2024
MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 3: THRILLER (with Stereogum's Tom Breihan)
130 hours 36 mins; July 25, 2024
Revisiting Chappell Roan's The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (with Olivia Horn) (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; July 22, 2024
MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 2: THE KING OF POP RISES (with Joseph Vogel)
110 hours 59 mins; July 18, 2024
Katy Perry's Not So Grand Return + Kesha, Lana Del Rey & More (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; July 15, 2024
MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 1: THE JACKSON 5 (with Emily Lordi)
119 hours 22 mins; July 11, 2024
Megan Thee Stallion Reps for the South— and Herself— on Megan (with Taylor Crumpton) (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; July 08, 2024
The Winners and Losers of the Touring Boom (with Matthew Perpetua, Zach Schonfeld & Emily Stewart)
56 mins; July 04, 2024
The Chaos and Calculations of Camila Cabello's C,XOXO (with Omri Rolan) (Patreon Preview)
9 mins; July 01, 2024
KATE BUSH (with Mic the Snare)
120 hours 34 mins; June 27, 2024
Ranking the Main Pop Girl Albums of 2024 (So Far) (with Ira Madison III)
73 hours 3 mins; June 20, 2024
Normani's Album is Good. Now What? (with Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul) (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; June 18, 2024
FRANK OCEAN (with Tre Johnson)
123 hours 46 mins; June 13, 2024
Charli XCX Breaks New Ground on Brat (Patreon Preview)
8 mins; June 10, 2024
Queer Women are Taking Over Pop (with Trish Bendix & Mel Woods)
55 mins; June 06, 2024
PINK (with Molly Mary O'Brien)
110 hours 50 mins; May 30, 2024
Why are Music Biopics so Bad? (with Keith Phipps)
51 mins; May 23, 2024
Love Hits Hard, Soft & Everything in Between on Billie Eilish's New Album (with the LA Times' Mikael Wood) (Patreon Preview)
9 mins; May 20, 2024
TINA TURNER (with Yale University's Dr. Daphne Brooks)
101 hours 50 mins; May 16, 2024
Anitta's Global Pop Takeover (with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd) (Patreon Preview)
11 mins; May 13, 2024
Mariah, Nirvana & The Story of MTV Unplugged (with Rob Tannenbaum & Craig Marks)
54 mins; May 09, 2024
Dua Lipa Disappears on Radical Optimism (with Owen Myers) (Patreon Preview)
13 mins; May 07, 2024
HILARY DUFF (with Legends Only's T. Kyle)
99 hours 12 mins; May 02, 2024
Is the Music Video Dead? (with Michael Cragg)
55 mins; April 25, 2024
Pop Pantheon Live! Tortured Poets & the State of Taylor Mania (with Brittany Spanos, Nora Princiotti & Hunter Harris) (Patreon Preview)
14 mins; April 23, 2024
NIRVANA (with Bandsplain's Yasi Salek)
95 hours 2 mins; April 18, 2024
Listener Mailbag! Taylor, Pop Pet Peeves & a *Very* Special Guest
63 hours 11 mins; April 11, 2024
BRANDY (with Naomi Zeichner)
120 hours 20 mins; April 04, 2024
Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter is a Genre Explosion (with Danielle Amir Jackson) (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; April 01, 2024
Beyoncé, Black Country & the Long Road to Cowboy Carter (With Dr. Francesca Royster & Taylor Crumpton)
66 hours 3 mins; March 28, 2024
Finding Bliss in Existentialism on Kacey Musgraves' Deeper Well (with Jewly Hight) (Patreon Preview)
10 mins; March 26, 2024
CALVIN HARRIS & DAVID GUETTA (with Lina Abascal)
131 hours 13 mins; March 21, 2024
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