With She’s the Best, Troye Sivan Would Like to Prove He’s the Best…Male Pop Star on Offer at the Moment (And One Who’s Looking for “Ridiculous, Inconvenient, Consuming, Can’t-Live-Without-Each-Other Love”)
In 2023, the last time Troye Sivan released an album (namely, Something to Give Each Other), he was still in his twenties. In between that [Read More…]
The Similar Ways that Zara Larsson and Tinashe Dive Into Their Insecurities About Fame with “The Ambition” and “Empty Stadium”
With Tinashe now experiencing the same kind of “at last”/“it’s about time” success with her eighth—that’s right, eighth—album, Popstar, that Zara Larsson did after releasing [Read More…]
Slayyyter Expands Her Lana/Americana Visuals With “I Think He’s Got a Girl”
Further spurring the anticipation for wor$t man in america, her “inverse” album, of sorts, to WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, Slayyyter has offered up another single [Read More…]
Madonna Channels Her Infamous Mantra—“I’m tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay”—During the Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Rehearsals for the 2026 VMAs
In the spirit of MTV’s (sadly) defunct Making the Video series, the network released a similarly-styled segment called Making the Performance after documenting the rehearsals [Read More…]
Primetime Doesn’t Defend the Men Who Were Shamed on To Catch a Predator, But Rather, Highlights the Grotesque Sensationalism of the 2000s
In what is becoming a common trend of reevaluating 2000s-era reality TV, Primetime is the first major non-documentary/docuseries to attempt tackling some of the more [Read More…]
Reemerging with His First Single Since “the Ventura Boulevard Incident,” Lil Nas X Releases RuPaul-Meets-Outkast-esque “World’s Greatest!”
The last time Lil Nas X was making headlines, it wasn’t for his music, but for walking down Ventura Boulevard around six a.m. in the [Read More…]
Heart of the Beast: A Love Letter to Dog Loyalty and Companionship
It’s been a while since a truly mainstream “dog movie for everyone” has been released. Arguably not since the 90s gems that are Beethoven and [Read More…]
Maisi and the Disco is About to Break Out of the Dance Floor’s Shadows with Some Help from “Madonna”
For all the flak Madonna got over her incredible opening performance to the 2026 VMAs, one would never know it based on the continued love [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus’ “Different Religion” Video Doesn’t Offer Much of a Religious Experience, But Does Kind of Borrow from “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart”
Keeping the visuals and singles from Bass Persuades coming, Miley Cyrus has reveled in the announcement of her album topping the Billboard 200 charts by [Read More…]
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu”/“Obsessed” Are Blueprints for Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero,” With a Video That Showcases the Worst Kind of Melodrama
Perhaps it’s a bad sign that the first “artistic” offering Taylor Swift has given her public after getting married to Travis Kelce is a video [Read More…]
