Category: Music
Sandie and Britney: Last Night in Soho Calls Out How Women with Entertainment Aspirations Are Automatically Assumed to Be “Prostitution Material”
Britney, too, just wanted to sing. That was her big dream. Much like Sandie’s (Anya Taylor-Joy) in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho. What no [Read More…]
The Continued Wake-Up Call About Celebrity Worship and How Astroworld Proves “Stay at Home” is Forever Relevant
Although, with the “passage” of 2020 (which is never really over and has become something of an Overlook Hotel situation for us all), everyone wanted [Read More…]
Kylie Jenner Lets Them Eat Cake by Posting Photo of Ambulance Showing Up on Her Instagram, Tries to Backpedal With “Thoughts and Prayers”
Part of the prerequisite for “transcending” into a billionaire is that you have to surrender any part of what might be left of your beating [Read More…]
“Kiss of Life” Is Another Kiss of Death For Kylie Minogue’s Disco Stylings
Kylie Minogue might be trying her best to resuscitate the decided artistic flop that was Disco (tailored to an older gay gentleman imagining himself to [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s “New Shapes” Featuring Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polacheck Has 80s Janet Jackson All Over It
Apart from Britney Spears, Charli XCX is one of the few white female pop stars to realize Janet Jackson has been a more untapped reserve [Read More…]
“Thriller”: Michael Jackson’s Admission of Being a Monster Hiding in Plain Sight
The simultaneously sexless and hyper-sexual persona of Michael Jackson reached a peak in December of 1983, when the video for “Thriller” was released. Directed by [Read More…]
In A More Evolved World, Christine and the Queens’ La Vita Nuova Could Act As the New “Thriller”
Each year around Halloween, in spite of Michael Jackson being a pederast, the same obligation to dredge up the “Thriller” video arises. With almost as [Read More…]
A “Personal Pan” From Dependable Del Rey: The Blue Banisters Album (More Jewel Than Joni)
From the moment “Text Book” commences the Blue Banisters album, Lana Del Rey is ready to get deeply confessional (and, naturally, what would the kickoff [Read More…]
“1979” Lite: Olivia Rodrigo’s “Traitor” Video Proffers More Pop Culture Recycling
It would be easy to say that “teenhood” never changes, therefore the experience might look similar throughout the decades. And yet, there’s no denying that [Read More…]
An Insulated Society for the Matriarchal: Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Banisters” Video
Perhaps what stands out most about Lana Del Rey’s latest visual foray is the fact that there is nary a man present. Considering what Del [Read More…]