Author: Genna Rivieccio
Billie Eilish Makes A Strong Case to Keep Dead Malls As Mausoleums to American Capitalism’s “Glossier” Era
While Billie Eilish, at her “tender age” (to use a cringe-y expression), could never possibly know the true clout a mall once had (reaching a [Read More…]
Mrs. Danvers Is Every Trump Loyalist
With the latest addition to the pile of Alfred Hitchcock remakes being Rebecca, one can’t help but study with more double take curiosity the utterly [Read More…]
Rebecca Redux: A Sumptuous Effort That Takes Understated Liberties With Hitchcock’s Original
Remaking anything from the Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre is always an emboldened move. And yet, at the same time, in the present climate of a total [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s Only Mentions of Madonna in Her Autobio Are Expectedly Shade-Drenched
While Madonna is no stranger to being her own Master of Shade, it has always been, in this particular dynamic, Mariah Carey to keep the [Read More…]
Flashdance Repackaged the American Dream to Women of Color at a Time When It Was Particularly Antithetical To Do So
With Joe Biden transcending into the “working man done good,” attention has been turned once again to the blue collar nature of Pennsylvania. A state [Read More…]
“OK Boomer” Becomes “You’re A-OK, Boomer”
It’s an irony in keeping with the incongruities of 2020. That after a particularly fiendish four years of the public bemoaning the fact that the [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue Fails to Bring Back “Disco” So Much As A Glimpse Into An Older Gay Gentleman’s Sequestered Mansion
Whether it was intentional or not, it happened: Kylie Minogue looks like a botched version of Olivia Newton-John on her latest album cover. Indeed, the [Read More…]
Public Anger Turns “Fever”-ish When Dua Lipa and Angèle Are Spotted Having A Good Time Through the Small Hours of the London Night
There is a timely sense of rage bubbling to the surface at every turn in Dua Lipa’s latest video co-starring Angèle, who collaborated with her [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus Gives “Midnight Sky” the Official Stevie Nicks Treatment With “Edge of Midnight”
Being that “Midnight Sky” already so patently ripped off many key elements from Stevie Nicks’ seminal 1981 hit, “Edge of Seventeen,” it was probably only [Read More…]
Kiiara’s Lil Kiiwi: For New Zealanders and Others to Enjoy
As Ellie Goulding also recently chose to do on her album cover for Brightest Blue, Kiiara, too, has opted for a decidedly “I’m Lana Del [Read More…]