Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Diego Maradona: Napoli’s Twentieth Century Folk Hero & The Shakespearean Tragedy of His Game Against the Very City He Helped Reinvigorate
“My only pleasure this afternoon was in discovering the Italians in Milan have stopped being racists: today, for the first time, they supported the Africans.” [Read More…]
Kiesza Trades 90s Dance For 80s Pop on Crave
Although not a total departure from her 2014 debut, Sound of A Woman, it’s clear that while Kiesza was on hiatus, she began to veer [Read More…]
“The Junk Mail” Shows Why Everyone Suddenly So Concerned About USPS Now Shouldn’t Have Been A Dick To It Before
How ironic, looking back, that the founding of the Post Office (the only governmental agency specifically mentioned within the U.S. Constitution) should stem from the [Read More…]
There’s Only One Way to Release Guilt in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
What is it to want love so badly you’ll go to obscene, self-destructive lengths to get it? Martha Ivers (Janis Wilson/Barbara Stanwyck)–who frequently expresses a [Read More…]
The Lions of “Like A Virgin”
From the moment the paws of the lion co-starring in the “Like A Virgin” video skip to the beat of the signature keyboard notes, one [Read More…]
The “Levitating” Remix Video Might Not Feature Madonna, But It Does Have a Very Specific “Who’s That Girl” Reference
While the presence of “randos” in music videos feels like an ever-diminishing notion (apart from Kylie Jenner in “WAP”) with stymying COVID restrictions, back in [Read More…]
The Rental: A Tailored-to-the-Moment Cautionary Tale About Not Staying Anywhere Outside of Your Own Home
It is said that all human interaction should be built upon trust, but one wonders of late if perhaps the millennial generation has taken that [Read More…]
The Suppression of Vanya Hargreeves’ Power As Allegory for Men Fearing Female Strength
In one of the many cruel ironies presented throughout The Umbrella Academy, the cruelest of all is the manner in which Number Seven a.k.a. Vanya [Read More…]
The Umbrella Academy: A Hodgepodge of Dark and Watchmen
Time travel and the notion of being perpetually stuck in the Gordian knot of a temporal loop seems to have only risen in popularity in [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” Adopts the Aesthetic of Kylie Minogue and the Interpolation of Stevie Nicks
In the spirit of the single release being the new normal before an artist finally gets around to putting a handful of them on a [Read More…]
