“My face is the real shop front”: Pepsi and Nike, Madonna and Lil Nas X
Not to make everything about Madonna (it simply is) in terms of her controversy parallels with Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” [Read More…]
Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” Video Setting A Precedent for Something Like “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
In one of the many Instagram “vignettes” posted in late Summer 2020 of Madonna’s screenwriting workshops with Diablo Cody, there is a moment where she [Read More…]
There’s A Place For Armie Hammer in Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” Video
While some (read: conservatives) have been most “shocked” of all by the visual of Lil Nas X giving Satan a lap dance in the video [Read More…]
A New Jenny to Obsess Over Post-867-5309
Despite Studio Killers’ track, “Jenny,” being released in 2013, its need for revitalization has been made manifest via Kim Petras’ presence on the song. Giving [Read More…]
Thanks to Lucille Bluth, Jessica Walter Will Forever Be A California Girl
Despite being born and dying in New York (which is just so…New York, by the way), Jessica Walter’s most iconic and memorable role—occurring in the [Read More…]
Just Shoot Me!’s “My Dinner With Woody” Episode & How It Applies to Woody’s Own Self-Deceptions
While we’re presently living in a period that has allowed little attention to be given to Allen v. Farrow (certainly not even half as much [Read More…]
Jhené Aiko Reminds Us She’s Sailing NOT Selling With Sailing Soul(s) Reissue
Pulling a Blood Orange (à la Angel’s Pulse) by deciding to call Sailing Soul(s) a mixtape rather than an album, Jhené Aiko gives us a [Read More…]
The Reality Is, As a Twenty-Six Foot Statue in Palm Springs Or Not, Marilyn Was Still A Sex Symbol
She said it herself: “If I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather have it sex than some other things we’ve got symbols [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey’s “Shades of Cool” As Police Officer Lullaby
While Lana Del Rey may have moved on from a darker side of her “Americana-loving” phase—that is to say, dating a cop—that aspect of herself [Read More…]
Youth Desert: Yearning For Carefree Simplicity in the “White Dress” Video
Since to set the story of the music video for “White Dress” inside of a diner (think Twin Peaks’ Double R) as Lizzy Grant dreamily [Read More…]