While Playing to the Gallery, Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter Insist Upon Never Playing to the Gallery with “Bring Your Love”
The last time Madonna did a duet with a blonde pop star as known for her simultaneous industry clout and sexually charged performances and lyrics, [Read More…]
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Isn’t a Love Letter to/Elegy for Print Media So Much as an Insidious Acceptance of How Capitalism “Works”
Although The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been largely praised by critics (with Time going so far as to call it “better than the original”), [Read More…]
Cassie Howard Proves the Jimmy Soul Adage, “If You Wanna Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life, Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife”
Now that Cassie Howard (Sydney Sweeney) has become “Cassie Jacobs”—as Nate (Jacob Elordi) was sure to emphasize on the limo ride back to their house [Read More…]
The Video for “Runway” Offers “Glamorized Backrooms” a.k.a. Corporate Gay Settings to Go With Its Corporate Gay Sound
Like the shit-tastic, highly sanitized Michael, Lady Gaga and Doechii’s “Runway” video is bound to be a “crowd pleaser.” Which is to say, of course, [Read More…]
Witchy Woman in a Wedding Gown: ROSALÍA’s “Focu ‘Ranni” Video
Continuing to build on her arsenal of visuals from Lux, ROSALÍA tapped Petra Collins to help bring to life “Focu ‘Ranni,” her fourth single and [Read More…]
“Sanitized” Doesn’t Even Begin to Convey the Nature of Michael—But Maybe “Vomit-Inducing Puff Piece That Erases the Facts” Does
While critics have panned Michael (with one particularly poetic headline from BBC reading, “A bland and barely competent daytime TV movie”), it of course hasn’t [Read More…]
Madonna Is Proof That It Should Be More Impressive to “Achieve Things” (Especially of the Physical Variety) When You’re Old(er) Than It Is When You’re Young
A few years back, a random burst of appreciation for Madonna took hold of TikTok (before the “Thief of Hearts” phenomenon, that is). This after [Read More…]
The Real Absurdity About Nate and Andy’s Relationship in The Devil Wears Prada Is That Nate Seems to Have No Concept of What It Means to Work in NYC
There has been no shortage of commentary and discourse on the nature of Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) and Nate Cooper’s (Adrian Grenier) relationship in the [Read More…]
Beef Uses the “War” Between Millennials and Gen Z as Smokescreen for the Larger Issue at Hand
Sometimes, it’s difficult to decide which generation has it worse (though less so which is just plain worse): millennials or Gen Z. On the one [Read More…]
Beef Season 2’s Real Contention Isn’t Between People, But Between People and a System
While some might not remember, Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan aren’t strangers to acting with one another, having played somewhat contentious ex-lovers in the 2013 [Read More…]
