Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Nature (Semi-)Triumphs Over Machinery in “White Mercedes” Video
Again showing a strange reverence for nature by performing destructive acts within it (see: “2099” video), Charli XCX returns with another single from Charli, “White [Read More…]
Betty Draper’s Twilight Sleep and Its Relation to Lana Del Rey’s “Shades of Cool” Video
Jake Nava’s direction of music videos over the years has often favored a suburban milieu with a seedy underbelly. From Lindsay Lohan’s “Over” video to [Read More…]
Sanctuary in the Suburbs: FKA Twigs Finds Refuge From the City in “Home With You”
As the third single and video from FKA Twigs’ second studio album in five years, Magdalene, “Home With You” offers surreal visuals speaking to a [Read More…]
Yesterday Pays Homage to The Beatles Via an Inverse Mandela Effect
For those unfamiliar with the Mandela effect, something of a mass delusion that facilitates a large bulk of the population remembering an event or entity [Read More…]
Where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns: Send in Joker
Perhaps because the times of the present are so expectedly nihilistic and void, it only made sense for co-writers Todd Phillips and Scott Silver (who [Read More…]
The Double Standard of Actresses Being Viewed As Prostitutes While Actors Are Heralded As “Artists”
There is a scene in the underrated rom-com masterpiece that is Notting Hill that says everything you need to know about the double standard in [Read More…]
If the “Offensiveness” of Fashion Keeps Being Kiboshed, What Is Left of Faux Profundity in the 21st Century?
Being that New York City long ago adapted to the U.S. curse of falling in line with catering to the political correctness that became part [Read More…]
Without Dolor, There Can Be No Gloria
If anyone was fated to play Pedro Almodóvar’s mother in a meta biopic of his life, it could have been none other than Penélope Cruz, [Read More…]
The Star: Like Sunset Boulevard Had Norma Desmond Been Castrated By Financial Ruin
Like the cinematic, L.A.-oriented songs of Lana Del Rey alluding to portents of some cataclysmic fall (“Nobody warns you before the fall”), all of 1952’s [Read More…]
Jacques Chirac: A Political Conundrum
It is said that age makes you a capitalist. With the priorities and pursuits to match. Jacques Chirac was already “old” (though not by French [Read More…]
