Lust + Love: More Sexual Innuendo and Promises of Forever on Positions (Deluxe)
While “pov” was the perfect cap to the lockdown pop stylings of Ariana Grande’s positions in October of last year (everyone’s beloved 2020), the chanteuse [Read More…]
So You Wanna Keep Dredging Up “Vintage” Instances of Women Being Abused by the Media?: Look at Madonna
Madonna long ago knew that she would not have the same kind of worshipful fame as Marilyn Monroe. Or any other “tragic” figure typically martyred [Read More…]
Euphoria Is A Billie Eilish Song
In the fifth episode of Euphoria, “03 Bonnie and Clyde,” Billie Eilish’s “you should see me in a crown” plays as Katherine “Kat” Hernandez (Barbie [Read More…]
Can’t Fight the Moonlight (Edition)
Before Ariana Grande got wise to releasing a deluxe edition with bonus tracks on it for Positions, Dua Lipa had already perfected the art of [Read More…]
Let the Relationship Sink Like the Titanic Because: “We’re Good”
Like fellow Brit, Charli XCX with “1999,” Dua Lipa seems well-aware of the continued cultural relevance of the Titanic. That said, the video for her [Read More…]
Ariana Grande’s “34+35” Remix Video: What Britney Spears’ Concept For “Slumber Party” Should Have Been
Even though Britney Spears has a much better knack than Ariana Grande for creating simple music videos that transcend into something iconic (e.g. “…Baby One [Read More…]
Some Kind of Heaven… Or Some Kind of Purgatory
“Getting old ain’t for sissies,” an aphorism most frequently attributed to Bette Davis, has changed tack over the years. Like millennials being accused of never [Read More…]
An Alternate Reality in the Edward Scissorhands Timeline Provides A Fan Fiction Field Day
Surely, we all remember that at the beginning of Tim Burton’s 1990 classic, Edward Scissorhands, Winona Ryder’s character, Kim Boggs, was a grandmother. Telling the [Read More…]
Framing Britney Spears Only Offers More of What We Already Know, While Shedding No Light On the Endless Amount That We Don’t
While many have been simply “agog” over a new episode–entitled “Framing Britney Spears”–of a show that no one previously watched before called The New York [Read More…]
The Weeknd Appropriately Brings His Patrick Bateman Act to Tom Brady’s Super Bowl
The so-called “only thing that still works in America” (per Saturday Night Live’s assessment) is also one of the many “things” people love to hate: [Read More…]