Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Justice for “My Only Wish (This Year)” (For Its Sexually Charged Nuances Alone)
Although Britney Spears’ still-underrated Christmas classic, “My Only Wish (This Year),” has gotten some clout of late by being played in the rather odious gay [Read More…]
You Do It to Yourself, You Do. And That’s What Really Hurts: Why The Shrink Next Door Is So Hard to Watch
Marty Markowitz (Will Ferrell) is not the type of person we’re supposed to feel bad for. Throughout the duration of The Shrink Next Door, an [Read More…]
The End of Another Sagittarian Teen Dream
At age nineteen, nine months before she turned twenty in December of 2000, Christina Aguilera won the Grammy for Best New Artist. Usually a kiss [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Addresses a Common Pre-Pandemic Phenomenon: “Tears in the Club”
Like Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits,” FKA Twigs’ latest single–on the heels of her Bond-esque theme, “Measure of a Man”–seems to want to remind us of [Read More…]
Mondo Appropriato #6: Chris Noth Being a Sexual Assaulter
In a series called Mondo Appropriato, Culled Culture examines how “on the nose” something is in the pop cultural and/or political landscape. “Am I the [Read More…]
And Just Like That… Peloton Manages to Create Another Offensive Ad
What isn’t retroactively disgusting nowadays? Usually, however, it takes a little bit longer for something to become so icky. And yet, with the acceleration of [Read More…]
“Keep It Together” As A Holiday Song
One could say that Madonna’s entire career was catapulted by the concept of a “Holiday.” After all, it was the name of her first successfully [Read More…]
Advertising and Fan Fiction Soar to New Heights With Peloton and Mr. Big
It’s happened many times before, most recently with Timothée Chalamet playing the spawn of Edward Scisscorhands, Edgar Scissorhands, for the sake of promoting a self-driving [Read More…]
The Power of Jane Campion’s Exploration of Certain Men’s Poisonous Notion of Masculinity
“When my father passed, I wanted nothing more than my mother’s happiness,” we hear Peter Gordon (Kodi Smit-McPhee) narrate at the outset of Jane Campion’s [Read More…]
Only Social Suicides in the Building: Gossip Girl 2.0’s First Season Hopes to be As Much of a Time Capsule as the Original
Being that the entire purported reason behind rebooting the 00s staple that is Gossip Girl was to set its technology in the modern era, it [Read More…]
