Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Bella Poarch: A “Hot Girl” Making Claims of Not Conforming to Cliché Male Expectations of Beauty
Bella Poarch’s runaway hit, “Build-a-Bitch,” might possess a theoretically positive and empowered message about how women shouldn’t yield to the pressures constantly put upon them [Read More…]
The “Save Your Tears Remix” Video Directly Negates the Same Premise Presented in “Build-a-Bitch”
Bella Poarch may have risen so fast to stardom that she didn’t quite have time to check on a more original idea for the video [Read More…]
“A perfect storm of sex kitten, raw talent and poor impulse control”: Amy Winehouse Was Given the Britney Treatment in the UK
Although L.A. is its own microcosm of paparazzi constantly trolling for the next humiliating candid photo, the UK (which just looks better without periods between [Read More…]
Stoned at the Nail Salon: Lorde’s “Way Existential” Rumination on “Aging”
Not taking a page from the pop star handbook that insists “produce, produce, produce” and “always stay in the spotlight lest they forget you” that [Read More…]
Last One to Die Please Turn Out the Light: Children of Men
The rhetoric of ingraining Britons with the idea that “only Britain soldiers on” while “the whole world has collapsed” seems only too relevant. Perhaps even [Read More…]
It’s Probably Time for the Government to Start Offering Quietus
Maybe it seemed “shocking” in 2006 when Children of Men first came out (and certainly when its book form did in 1992) that a government would peddle [Read More…]
Tarantino Meets Winding Refn: Gunpowder Milkshake Brings All the Male Influence to the Yard
Of course, when Quentin Tarantino’s quote, “Best film of the year!” was used as part of the poster for 2013’s Big Bad Wolves, it was [Read More…]
Where Shakira and Lana Del Rey Collide: “Don’t Wait Up”
As a song, “Don’t Wait Up” is fairly innocuous, and certainly doesn’t compare to Shakira’s previous single (with Black Eyed Peas), “Girl Like Me.” Yet [Read More…]
Black Widow and Its Parallel to Britney Spears’ Conservatorship
It seems almost too perfectly timed that a Black Widow script about male manipulation and mind control over women should come out the same year [Read More…]
WAP 2.0: Tanu Muino Shows Off her Own “Wild Side” in Normani and Cardi B’s Collaboration Together
Making a brief foray into the mainstream in 2019 with the mostly lackluster “Small Talk” video for Katy Perry (though, to be fair, it was [Read More…]
