Author: Genna Rivieccio
Hilary Duff Returns With a “Mature,” Yet Skewering New Single
While SZA missed the opportunity to call “Kill Bill” “Mature” (after all, she does keep repeating, “I’m so mature” throughout it), Hilary Duff knew that [Read More…]
Madonna’s Reanimation of Confessions on a Dance Floor for a “Twenty Years Edition” Isn’t Reflective of the Luster and Excitement Surrounding Its Original Release
As Madonna starts to get back into the mode of “feeding” her audience “properly,” she’s been breadcrumbing a few “new old” releases over the course [Read More…]
Let the Lux In: ROSALÍA Translates the Divine into Sonic Form
There’s an obvious reason that none other than Madonna herself felt compelled to post about the “visionary” nature of ROSALÍA’s fourth album, Lux. Apart from [Read More…]
The Abby Love Smoothies Episode of Nobody Wants This and the A Woman’s Right to Shoes Episode of Sex and the City, Or: What’s With Self-Righteous Cunts With Kids Always Asking Guests to Take Their Shoes Off?
In yet another example of how Sex and the City has already covered everything Nobody Wants This does, the fifth episode of season two, “Abby [Read More…]
Mondo Appropriato #12: Dick Cheney Dying Right Before Zohran Mamdani’s Election
In a series called Mondo Appropriato, Culled Culture examines how “on the nose” something is in the pop cultural and/or political landscape. Sometimes, in life, [Read More…]
Britney Spears Still Has the Best “Lucky,” But Reneé Rapp Offers Up Her Own Boppable One for the Now You See Me: Now You Don’t Soundtrack
To further ramp up the excitement that isn’t necessarily there already for Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Reneé Rapp released a single from [Read More…]
Lily Allen’s “Cheryl Tweedy” As Forerunner to Charli XCX’s “Sympathy Is a Knife”
In July 2006, there was no denying the chokehold that Lily Allen had over British radio airwaves. Or, perhaps more “modernly,” the chokehold she had [Read More…]
ROSALÍA’s “Berghain” Brings Opera and Classical Music to the “Mainstream,” Even If No Such Thing Really Exists Anymore
In, say, 1990, when Madonna released “Vogue,” there was very much a concrete “mainstream” to bring something “underground” to. In 2025, the mainstream is all [Read More…]
The Witchiest Woman of Them All: Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream Finds Healing and Redemption in the Mystical and the Magical
Having already earned her stripes as a real witchy woman with 2022’s Dance Fever, Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch aims to take that “honorary” [Read More…]
Doja Cat Singing “Gorgeous” to Hollywood at Vogue World
If there’s one thing that Hollywood has always gotten off on—at least since the release of Sunset Boulevard in 1950—it’s holding up a funhouse mirror [Read More…]
