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ADELE: PART 2 (with Michael Cragg)

ADELE: PART 1 (with The New York Times' Leah Greenblatt)

Grammy Nominations Reactions + Is "Disease" a Flop? + More (Patreon Preview)

What Exactly is a "Flop"? (with Brittany Spanos & Chris Stedman)

Our 2024 Grammy Nomination Predictions: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan & More (Patreon Preview)

KELIS (with Variety's Steven J. Horowitz)

Lady Gaga Returns with "Disease" plus New Music from Addison Rae and Halsey (Patreon Preview)

Reacting to Your Unpopular Pop Opinions About Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears & More (with Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul)

CHARLI XCX: PART 3 (with Shaad D'Souza)

pop pantheon and it's about charli xcx's brat remix album featuring reanna cruz (patreon preview)

CHARLI XCX: PART 2 (with Pitchfork's Anna Gaca)

CHARLI XCX: PART 1 (with i-D's Owen Myers)

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)

The 10 Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century (with Sam Murphy & Rich Juzwiak)

The Visceral and Meta Pleasures of Charli XCX and Troye Sivan's Sweat Tour (Patreon Preview)

BACKSTREET BOYS VS. *NSYNC (with NPR's Aisha Harris)

What is the Pop Pantheon?

MEGHAN TRAINOR (with Who? Weekly's Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber)

Sabrina Carpenter Hits the Short 'n Sweet Spot (Patreon Preview)

Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter is a Genre Explosion (with Danielle Amir Jackson) (Originally Published on Patreon on 4/1/2024)

Listener Mailbag: Brat, Rihanna, Divas Live, Louie's Weird Vocabulary & More!

Tinashe Meditates on Love and Sex on Quantum Baby with Kyann-Siann Williams (Patreon Preview)

TINASHE (with The Cut's Cat Zhang)

Paris Hilton Saw the Future on Paris (with Troy McEady) (Patreon Preview)

New Pop Girl Power Ranking ft. Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan & More (with Mikael Wood & Jason P. Frank)

LA LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! Talking Katy & Gaga at Dynasty Typewriter on 9/30

MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 4: LEGACY (with Dr. Fredara Hadley)

Ice Spice's Y2K Is Surprisingly 2024 Coded (with Nadirah Simmons) (Patreon Preview)

MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 3: THRILLER (with Stereogum's Tom Breihan)

Revisiting Chappell Roan's The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (with Olivia Horn) (Patreon Preview)

MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 2: THE KING OF POP RISES (with Joseph Vogel)

Katy Perry's Not So Grand Return + Kesha, Lana Del Rey & More (Patreon Preview)

MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 1: THE JACKSON 5 (with Emily Lordi)

Megan Thee Stallion Reps for the South— and Herself— on Megan (with Taylor Crumpton) (Patreon Preview)

The Winners and Losers of the Touring Boom (with Matthew Perpetua, Zach Schonfeld & Emily Stewart)

The Chaos and Calculations of Camila Cabello's C,XOXO (with Omri Rolan) (Patreon Preview)

KATE BUSH (with Mic the Snare)

Ranking the Main Pop Girl Albums of 2024 (So Far) (with Ira Madison III)

Normani's Album is Good. Now What? (with Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul) (Patreon Preview)

FRANK OCEAN (with Tre Johnson)

Charli XCX Breaks New Ground on Brat (Patreon Preview)

Queer Women are Taking Over Pop (with Trish Bendix & Mel Woods)

PINK (with Molly Mary O'Brien)

Why are Music Biopics so Bad? (with Keith Phipps)

Love Hits Hard, Soft & Everything in Between on Billie Eilish's New Album (with the LA Times' Mikael Wood) (Patreon Preview)

TINA TURNER (with Yale University's Dr. Daphne Brooks)

Anitta's Global Pop Takeover (with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd) (Patreon Preview)

Mariah, Nirvana & The Story of MTV Unplugged (with Rob Tannenbaum & Craig Marks)

Dua Lipa Disappears on Radical Optimism (with Owen Myers) (Patreon Preview)

HILARY DUFF (with Legends Only's T. Kyle)

Is the Music Video Dead? (with Michael Cragg)

Pop Pantheon Live! Tortured Poets & the State of Taylor Mania (with Brittany Spanos, Nora Princiotti & Hunter Harris) (Patreon Preview)

NIRVANA (with Bandsplain's Yasi Salek)

Listener Mailbag! Taylor, Pop Pet Peeves & a *Very* Special Guest

BRANDY (with Naomi Zeichner)

Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter is a Genre Explosion (with Danielle Amir Jackson) (Patreon Preview)

Beyoncé, Black Country & the Long Road to Cowboy Carter (With Dr. Francesca Royster & Taylor Crumpton)

Finding Bliss in Existentialism on Kacey Musgraves' Deeper Well (with Jewly Hight) (Patreon Preview)

CALVIN HARRIS & DAVID GUETTA (with Lina Abascal)

Britney and Janet Aren’t Justin Timberlake’s Only Problem (with Vox's Kyndall Cunningham) (Patreon Preview)

Do You Still Listen to Kanye West and Michael Jackson? (with Tre Johnson & Kemi Olivia Alemoru)

The Novel & Familiar Thrills of Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine (with Bustle's Nolan Feeney) (Patreon Preview)

ARIANA GRANDE: PART 2 (with Pitchfork's Anna Gaca)

ARIANA GRANDE: PART 1 (with the LA Times' Mikael Wood)

NYC Live Show! Talking Taylor at the Bellhouse on 4/22

JLo, Beyoncé & the Surprisingly Long History of the Visual Album (with Sydney Urbanek)

Can We Justify Justin Timberlake's Justified? (with Rachel Brodsky) (Patreon Preview)

SHERYL CROW (with Natalie Weiner)

Second Spin: USHER (with Rawiya Kameir)

N*cki, M*gan & Why it's Time to Rethink Stan Culture (with Rolling Stone's Mankaprr Conteh)

The Grammys Still Have a Problem with Black Women (with Variety's Chris Willman) (Patreon Preview)

FERGIE (with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd)

THE BLACK EYED PEAS (with The Ringer's Rob Harvilla)

How Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia Made Her a Main Pop Girl (with Pitchfork's Anna Gaca) (Patreon Preview)

Why Can't Pop Stars Score Two Hits Off One Album? (with Andrew Unterberger & Eric Bennett)

DEMI LOVATO (with Molly Mary O'Brien)

What Pantheon Rankings Did I Get Wrong in 2023?: Shakira, The Simpson Sisters, Lana & More!

Hard Candy is a Sweet Spot in Madonna's Late Period (with Miles Marshall Lewis) (Patreon Preview)

How Has Lady Gaga's Chromatica Held Up? (with Matthew Perpetua & Molly Mary O'Brien) (Patreon Rerun)

Pop Stars We Lost This Year: Sinéad O'Connor, Tony Bennett & Tina Turner (with Annie Zaleski, Brian Newman & Melissa Vincent)

Who TF is Tate McRae? Making Sense of Pop's New Main Girl (Patreon Preview)

MARIAH CAREY: PART 3 (with Pot Psychology's Rich Juzwiak)

Is Pink Friday 2 a Worthy Sequel? (with Hunter Harris) (Patreon Preview)

MARIAH CAREY: PART 2 (with NPR's Aisha Harris)

How Mariah Carey Became the Queen of Christmas (with The Wall Street Journal's John Jurgensen) (Patreon Preview)

MARIAH CAREY: PART 1 (with Dr. Brittnay L. Proctor)

The Best Pop Music of 2023 (with Shaad D'Souza)

Bonnie McKee on the Song Machine, Pop Stardom & Ego Death

AALIYAH (with Kathy Iandoli)

Pop Pantheon Live! Britney's Memoir, Music & Legacy (with Jason King, Troy McEady and Kirbie Johnson) (Patreon Preview)

Lizzo & The Nature of Celebrity Scandal (with Megan Agnew & Hanna Phifer)

BRUNO MARS (with Stereogum's Tom Breihan)

Where are All the New Pop Stars? (with Billboard's Elias Leight)

Searching for Queer Utopias on Troye Sivan's Something to Give Each Other (Patreon Preview)

JESSICA & ASHLEE SIMPSON (with Beyond the Blinds' Troy McEady)

How Country Bros Took Over Pop (with Spencer Kornhaber & Marissa R. Moss)

The Ease of Kylie Minogue's Tension (with Michael Cragg) (Patreon Preview)

Doja Cat Walls Herself In on Scarlet (with Rawiya Kameir) (Patreon Preview)

DOJA CAT (with Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul)

PRINCE: PART 3 (with Miles Marshall Lewis)