Author: Genna Rivieccio
Abercrombie & Suburban Repression: Abercrombie & Fitch: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie Explores a Millennial Staple That Made Everyone Look Like a Douche Even At Its Peak
As one of the many offerings of late favoring 00s-based nostalgia, Senior Year shows its main character, Stephanie Conway (Rebel Wilson), waking up from a [Read More…]
In Support of Lorde Shushing the Audience
Because the internet is patently “forever,” a video of Lorde vehemently shushing her audience back in June of 2017 can have sudden relevance almost a [Read More…]
Bridgerton Season 2 Still Comes Through Despite a Physical Chasteness in Contrast to Season 1
While some viewers (including the type who buy bodice-ripping paperbacks at the grocery store) might have been initially miffed over the lack of sex that [Read More…]
Coachella Falling on Easter Weekend Feels Like an Homage to What People Truly Worship
It’s been no secret for some time that the trappings of the Money God are what “the people” worship most of all in this (post-post-post-post-post-post-post) [Read More…]
Plastic Surgery Aside, There Are Many Layers to Anitta on Versions of Me
“Joking” to Andy Cohen, among others, about how her latest album cover and title serve as an homage to all the plastic surgery procedures she’s [Read More…]
If a (Certain Kind of) Shark Stops Swimming, It Dies; If Charli XCX Stops Evolving in “Used To Know Me,” She Gets Caught in a Bad Romance
Keeping with the current motif in pop culture of how there are many different versions of ourselves (e.g. Anitta’s Versions of Me and Daniels’ Everything [Read More…]
Everything Everywhere All At Once: No, It’s Not About Trying to Absorb Mass Media in the Twenty-First Century
Who among us has not wondered what more we might be? How our lives could be altered (read: better) if we had just made one [Read More…]
Familia Affair: Camila Cabello’s Third Album Addresses the Little-Loved (In the U.S.) Ideal of Interdependence
It’s ironic, when considering the theme of Camila Cabello’s third album, Familia, that the entire basis of her rise to pop superstardom was founded on [Read More…]
Elizabeth Holmes As White Feminist Emblem
Easily comparable to Anna Delvey in many ways, what Elizabeth Holmes managed to do with her own scam was obviously much worse. For it put [Read More…]
The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes Had More Game Than Anna Delvey
“Today we’re taking the first step to making health care accessible to everyone in this country.” That was probably Elizabeth Holmes’ initial mistake in terms [Read More…]