Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Sandie and Britney: Last Night in Soho Calls Out How Women with Entertainment Aspirations Are Automatically Assumed to Be “Prostitution Material”
Britney, too, just wanted to sing. That was her big dream. Much like Sandie’s (Anya Taylor-Joy) in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho. What no [Read More…]
The Continued Wake-Up Call About Celebrity Worship and How Astroworld Proves “Stay at Home” is Forever Relevant
Although, with the “passage” of 2020 (which is never really over and has become something of an Overlook Hotel situation for us all), everyone wanted [Read More…]
Kylie Jenner Lets Them Eat Cake by Posting Photo of Ambulance Showing Up on Her Instagram, Tries to Backpedal With “Thoughts and Prayers”
Part of the prerequisite for “transcending” into a billionaire is that you have to surrender any part of what might be left of your beating [Read More…]
Last Night in Paris
As Edgar Wright’s latest film, Last Night in Soho, gains the praise it deserves, one can’t help but reflect on how Wright is tapping into [Read More…]
“Kiss of Life” Is Another Kiss of Death For Kylie Minogue’s Disco Stylings
Kylie Minogue might be trying her best to resuscitate the decided artistic flop that was Disco (tailored to an older gay gentleman imagining himself to [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s “New Shapes” Featuring Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polacheck Has 80s Janet Jackson All Over It
Apart from Britney Spears, Charli XCX is one of the few white female pop stars to realize Janet Jackson has been a more untapped reserve [Read More…]
Ghosts of Dicks Past: Male Lechery and Nostalgia’s Intertwinement with Capitalism in Last Night in Soho
*disclaimer to self-involved NYC residents: Soho referred to a neighborhood in London before it ever referred to the commercialized atrocity filled with people attempting to [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #3: Madonna’s Lifelong Emulation of Marilyn Monroe
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. In one of many vignettes from Madonna’s early [Read More…]
Madonna’s V Magazine Interview Reminds That Being Cancelled Means Different Things to Liberals and Conservatives
If anyone knows a thing or two about being “cancelled” long before it was the norm, it’s Madonna. And, based on her “sordid” past riddled [Read More…]
“Thriller”: Michael Jackson’s Admission of Being a Monster Hiding in Plain Sight
The simultaneously sexless and hyper-sexual persona of Michael Jackson reached a peak in December of 1983, when the video for “Thriller” was released. Directed by [Read More…]
