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Taylor Swift Season 1 Mailbag! Oct 09, 2025

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Louie and Russ are answering all of your questions about Season One of our Taylor Swift series which covered her early era and first three albums, 2006's debut, 2008's Fearless, and 2010's Speak Now.

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Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl Track by Track (Patreon Preview) Oct 06, 2025

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In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, what else could it be? Louie and Russ go extra long on Taylor Swift's 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, consider each track, and ask the big questions about what it all means in the career trajectory of the biggest pop star of them all.

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TAYLOR SWIFT PART 3: SPEAK NOW (with The Guardian's Laura Snapes) Oct 02, 2025

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The Guardian's deputy music editor Laura Snapes makes her Pop Pantheon debut for the conclusion of season one of our epic Taylor Swift super-series. Louie and Laura revisit the marquee music event of autumn 2010, the release of Taylor’s third album, Speak Now. They discuss the album's six platinum hits, how it revitalized the record industry in a moment of peril and the way Taylor used Speak Now to respond to public narratives about her.

Join us next week for a bonus B-Side Mailbag episode covering YOUR questions about Taylor’s early years and initial run of country albums.

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Doja Cat's Vie + Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, Lorde's Ultrasound Tour & More (Patreon Preview) Sep 29, 2025

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In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Louie and Russ talk the announcement of Bad Bunny as next year's Super Bowl halftime show performer, Russ' experience at Lorde's Ultrasound World Tour, and take bets on the first week sales for Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl before digging into Doja Cat's '80s pastiche on her new album, Vie, released last week.

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TAYLOR SWIFT PART 2: FEARLESS (with Stereogum's Tom Breihan) Sep 25, 2025

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Stereogum senior editor Tom Breihan returns to Pop Pantheon for the second episode of season one of Pop Pantheon’s epic Taylor Swift super-series. Louie and Tom touch down on Taylor as she lands her first big pop hit, the pop-rock anthem “Love Story.” From there, they tackle Taylor’s graduation from country ingenue to global superstardom with her number one Grammy-winning sophomore album, 2008’s Fearless, and discuss modern pop music history's big bang with Taylor and Kanye West's infamous meeting at the 2009 MTV VMAs.

Join us next week for the conclusion of season one, in which we’ll discuss Taylor’s 2010 album Speak Now.

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Cardi B's Am I the Drama? + Katy Perry's Lifetimes Tour and Super Bowl Predictions (Patreon Preview) Sep 22, 2025

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In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Louie and Russ talk their predictions for who will be next year's Super Bowl halftime performer and talk there experiences seeing Katy Perry's Lifetimes Tour before digging into Cardi B's long-awaited sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, which dropped on Friday.

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TAYLOR SWIFT PART 1: DEBUT (with Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield) Sep 18, 2025

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Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield returns to Pop Pantheon to kick off the first season of our sprawling, multi-year super series about the biggest pop star phenomenon of the 21st century, Taylor Swift. Louie and Rob, author of Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music, dig into Taylor’s origins in suburban Philadelphia, the famed Christmas tree farm she grew up on and her bootstrapped teenage years in Nashville. Then they discuss her 2006 self-titled album, which transformed Taylor into country music’s newest ingénue.

Join us next week for Part 2, in which we’ll discuss Taylor’s sophomore album, 2008’s Fearless.

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Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball + Justin Bieber's Swag & Jade's That's Showbiz Baby (Patreon Preview) Sep 16, 2025

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In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Louie and Russ get together to share their experiences of seeing Lady Gaga's epic Mayhem Ball World Tour, before diving into their thoughts on new albums from Justin Bieber and Jade.

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Main Pop Girl Power Ranking 2025 (with Reanna Cruz) Sep 11, 2025

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Louie, Russ, and returning champ Reanna Cruz discuss the year in main pop girls before each sharing their personal top five Main Pop Girl Power Ranking for 2025 and putting their heads together for a collective top ten. Gaga? Addison? Doechii? Sabrina? PinkPantheress? Who will win?!?!

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