Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Halsey Does Billie Eilish One Better On If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Unlike, say, Cardi B, who also experienced (and is experiencing) a “young” “with child” phase, Halsey opted to really say something (apart from, you know, [Read More…]
Valeria Season 2 Decides to Succumb Fully to the Sex and the City Comparison (But It’s Still More Interesting to Watch Than Carrie B.’s Fuckery)
When we left Valeria at the end of season one, she was burdened with the decision about what to do regarding her book deal for [Read More…]
A Tale of Two Marnies: The Book Version and the Film Version
Marnie might be one of the most problematic Alfred Hitchcock movies of all-time, which is really saying something as there are so many affronting cinematic [Read More…]
Kim Petras Claims “Future Starts Now” While Relying on Stale Visuals of the Past to Elucidate Everyone’s Parisian Fantasy
Although the video itself has yet to arrive, Kim Petras has provided us with a “visualizer” (the latest trend that seems somehow superfluous when people [Read More…]
“Parlor Walls” Foretold of CHVRCHES’ Screen Violence
The cover for CHVRCHES’ fourth album, Screen Violence, is literal in one way and yet utterly metaphorical in another. The image of a hand grabbing [Read More…]
Finally A Tribute Album Worthy of Madonna’s Musical Prowess
Of course, there have been many Madonna tribute albums in the past. From Virgin Voices to Through the Wilderness (which featured Ariel Pink’s version of [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #1: Lorde Making A Nature Album As Nature Collapses
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. Lorde may have been checked out of “mainstream [Read More…]
Lorde Sells a “Non-Product” to “Help” the Environment, Not Seeming to Realize How Indicative That is of Our Current Problem
In a new tradition of trying to “make things better” by still working within the very system that makes it all so terrible, Lorde has [Read More…]
Olivia Rodrigo’s “brutal” Video Reminds That Capitalism Creates the Conditions in Which Nothing Can Ever Be New
Early on in her still germinal career, Olivia Rodrigo was accused of copying, well, quite a few people. The pastiche overload this “Gen Z representative” [Read More…]
Jay Gatsby-Approved: Reminiscence
Maybe what feels unique about Reminiscence is that it’s the first dystopian neo-noir in an era when it’s categorically impossible to deny that we’re living [Read More…]
