Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Grimes’ Latest Music Video “Gimmick” Is A Foretelling of the Entertainment Industry’s Future
As a longtime champion of the DIY and carving out what the “Grimes brand” meant to her–especially as she put all the work into it [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #5: Lindsay Lohan Is Still Staging “Comebacks” Centered Around “Letting Go” of the Past (When the Past Is the Only Thing That’s Still Kept Her Afloat)
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture… and all that it affects. Every time [Read More…]
“You Want a Dorito?” How The Doom Generation Captured the American Ability to File Away Trauma
If anyone has ever mastered the art of disaffection and its immortalization in the pop culture oeuvre, it’s Generation X. Or what Gregg Araki billed [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #4: Judging the Mom From What’s Eating Gilbert Grape When That’s What the World Has Devolved To
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture… and all that it affects. The 90s. [Read More…]
Locke & Key Shuts the Door On Its Quality Mid-Season
With a show (adapted from the graphic novels) whose name seems a bit too salt-in-wound for the times, Locke & Key bears the characteristics of [Read More…]
The Self-Quarantine of Betty Draper
As it’s already been noted, Americans experiencing the so-called hell of self-quarantine and the lockdown measures thereof (though it will never compare to the actions [Read More…]
The Resurgence of “Ghosttown”
While Madonna’s 2015 album, Rebel Heart, faltered on the charts at times thanks to the precedent established by a rocky start with the majority of [Read More…]
Telling People Not to Go Outside Is the New Telling People Not to Smoke
It is ingrained in human nature, for whatever reason, to do the opposite of what one is told–particularly if that form of telling is severe [Read More…]
Bob Dylan Just Schooled Lana Del Rey On How To Be Lana Del Rey With “Murder Most Foul”
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times last year, Lana Del Rey was asked of her fans’ eerie obsession with everything she does, “Do [Read More…]
The Weeknd Has Brought Us Another 2020 Album Tinged With the Bittersweetness of Phenomena That Have Been Rendered Retro
Despite The Weeknd explaining the thesis behind his latest record, After Hours, it has to be said that such a “musing” already feels archaic at [Read More…]
