Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Ticket to Paradise Commingles Father of the Bride and Mamma Mia! Elements for Its Rom-Com Escapism
Despite being a rather generic title, there have only been four previous films (documented in the database, at least) with the title of Ticket to [Read More…]
Honey, I Blew Up the Taylor in Wonderland: “Anti-Hero” Video Shows Swift Being Too Big For This World
After directing the aggressively white and heteronormative “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” Taylor Swift made it clear that she had plenty of other future directorial [Read More…]
Innovation Stalls on Midnights As Taylor Swift Does A Lot of 2012-Era Musical Recycling While Joe Alwyn Remains Her Eternal Muse
While most insomniacs would settle for watching TV all night, Taylor Swift has shown us yet again just how “Type A” she can be by [Read More…]
“Beautiful” 2.0 and What’s Changed Since Xtina’s Original “Beautiful” Video
To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Stripped—the album that Christina Aguilera carved out for herself to assure the masses she wasn’t just another “cookie-cutter” pop [Read More…]
“Sunset” Video: Caroline Polachek Lives Her Best Life in Barcelona While Channeling Beth Orton and “La Isla Bonita”
When one is as well-traveled as Caroline Polachek, it’s probably hard to be “impressed” by much of any milieu. After all, this is the girl [Read More…]
Not Cute: Meet Cute
Like Gary (Pete Davidson), we already have some vague level of understanding about what we’re getting into when we first encounter Sheila (Kaley Cuoco) at [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #45: Trying to Correlate the Climate Apocalypse With People’s Enjoyment of Art
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
Tove Lo Turns Body Dysmorphia and an Eating Disorder Into A Danceable Anthem on “Grapefruit”
Perhaps if anyone was going to succeed at making such a hotbed, highly delicate issue danceable, it was bound to be Tove Lo. Having finally [Read More…]
Scorpio Manicness Abounds on Tove Lo’s Delightfully Stinging Dirt Femme
Tove Lo is among the many shining pops stars who hadn’t yet dipped their toe into an album release since the advent of The Pandemic [Read More…]
When Angela Lansbury as Nancy Oliver Stole the Show in Gaslight
While Angela Lansbury might not have experienced her true career “high” until Murder, She Wrote (and also, well, being the voice of Mrs. Potts in [Read More…]
