In Many Ways, It Could Have Just As Easily Been Amy Winehouse or Lindsay Lohan Who Got Slapped With a Conservatorship At the Height of Mid-00s Witch Hunts Persecuting “Good Time Girls”

When examining just how arbitrary “destiny” can be, it’s easy to retrospectively remark upon how Britney Spears was a victim not just of her own [Read More…]

Lana Del Rey: A Patron Saint of Father’s Day, Or: Every Song By LDR That Mentions “Daddy”

Despite only one line in Lana Del Rey’s 2012 song, “Ride,” mentioning anything about a “Daddy” (while also including “father” in the lyrics, “Dying young [Read More…]

Cruel Summer and Death of a Cheerleader: Lessons in the Detriments of Obsessing Over the Popular Girl

It’s only fitting that a TV movie from the mid-90s about the damaging effects of socioeconomic self-comparison among high school students should be similar in [Read More…]

That Ho Over There Takes on That Hypocrite Over There: Megan Thee Stallion’s “Thot Shit”

Like women taking back the word “bitch” (“slut,” “whore,” “slore”—the gamut), Megan Thee Stallion has decided it’s time to take back the erstwhile derogatory term [Read More…]

Aliens Surely Can’t Be As Prosaic As Humans—But Doja Cat’s “Need To Know” Video Is Just the “Human Experience,” Alien-ified

Because “alien legitimacy” apparently wouldn’t be complete without Grimes, Doja Cat has continued her outer space motif from the “Kiss Me More” video (more than [Read More…]