Category: Music Videos
Bridgerton Shit: Pop Smoke and Dua Lipa’s “Demeanor” Video
Primping in the mirror, as a courtier (or Britney Spears in the “Circus” video) does, Dua Lipa establishes the intended—if not necessarily achieved—illicit tone of [Read More…]
Who’s Peur des Filles?
“Not so long ago in a manaxy not so far away,” begins the “Peur des Filles” video from L’Impératrice that serves as a “short film” [Read More…]
Rain on Me: Billie Eilish Borrows from LDR, Beyoncé Aesthetics in “Happier Than Ever” Video
Wanting to achieve that “vintage” effect that Lana Del Rey has had the monopoly on since 2012, Billie Eilish’s latest song (at least the first [Read More…]
“EveryTime I Cry” is Ava Max’s “Rain on Me”
Because sad dance anthems have been the way of summer ever since Reich & Bleich remixed Lana Del Rey in 2012, Ava Max continues the [Read More…]
Lady’s Gaga’s “Telephone” Redux, Or: Arrest That Man!… For Making Gay Men Want to Do Crime So They Can Go to Prison and Take Homoerotic Showers
More than anything about Lil Nas X’s latest foray into “creating controversy” simply by being himself in the video for “Industry Baby,” it’s most interesting [Read More…]
Bella Poarch: A “Hot Girl” Making Claims of Not Conforming to Cliché Male Expectations of Beauty
Bella Poarch’s runaway hit, “Build-a-Bitch,” might possess a theoretically positive and empowered message about how women shouldn’t yield to the pressures constantly put upon them [Read More…]
The “Save Your Tears Remix” Video Directly Negates the Same Premise Presented in “Build-a-Bitch”
Bella Poarch may have risen so fast to stardom that she didn’t quite have time to check on a more original idea for the video [Read More…]
Where Shakira and Lana Del Rey Collide: “Don’t Wait Up”
As a song, “Don’t Wait Up” is fairly innocuous, and certainly doesn’t compare to Shakira’s previous single (with Black Eyed Peas), “Girl Like Me.” Yet [Read More…]
WAP 2.0: Tanu Muino Shows Off her Own “Wild Side” in Normani and Cardi B’s Collaboration Together
Making a brief foray into the mainstream in 2019 with the mostly lackluster “Small Talk” video for Katy Perry (though, to be fair, it was [Read More…]
Chvrches Posits That the Enduring “Good Girls” Trope Is A Result of Not Killing Our (Male) Idols
So much has happened since Chvrches’ last album, Love Is Dead, was released in 2018 that it feels like an entire lifetime ago. And, in [Read More…]