Author: Genna Rivieccio
The Corporation That Sold A Gun to Mass Shoot Itself
The corporation will sell the noose to hang itself. If it means profits, so be it. And it’s all a variation on a quote often [Read More…]
Tove Lo Posits That Women Are Just As Assholic in Matters of Love in “Bad As The Boys”
Like an 80s bop brought to life (something like a mutant baby of Rick Springfield and Sheena Easton), Tove Lo’s “Bad As The Boys,” the [Read More…]
Ariana Grande Carries the *NSYNC Torch Re: the Heteronormative Thrill of Repressed Desire a.k.a. the Hunt on “boyfriend”
Re-teaming with longtime directorial collaborator Hannah Lux Davis (who also brought us the scandalous for its cultural appropriativeness “7 Rings“), Ariana Grande continues to go [Read More…]
Jessica Jones, Season 3: A Nod to the Most Unique Masochists of All–The Ones Who Stay in NYC
There are two factions of NYC residents: those who leave and those who stay. Those who declare their undying devotion for it and those who [Read More…]
Subverting Pastiche: Some Takeaways From the Norman Fucking Rockwell Album Cover
As Lana Del Rey stans proceed to attempt picking the wigs that were snatched up off the floor after getting an official release date and [Read More…]
Billie Eilish As the 21st Century Ideal of a Sexless Pop Star
At this point, it’s fairly patent that every generation that succeeds the millennial one (at the current moment, Gen Z) has learned, or will learn, [Read More…]
The Hustle Continues to Accent A Longstanding Issue With the Female Con Movie
While, of course, it’s always “refreshing” to see any scale of a production company throw women a bone by pushing projects through that feature “heroines” [Read More…]
For Those Still Sad Still Sexy, Lykke Li Feels You
Unlike that time when St. Vincent “stripped down” MASSEDUCTION to create 2018’s acoustic monstrosity, MassEducation, Lykke Li has approached her reworkings of select offerings from [Read More…]
Lizzo & Missy Elliott Team To Take The Latter’s Fraught 00s Message About Body Image to the Next Level on “Tempo”
Keeping it one hundred percent real as she makes videos of herself using Tik Tok (because it isn’t a rap video until you’ve seen that [Read More…]
Her Smell: The Collision of the Id and the Ego in the Female Rock Star Makes for Some Very Awkward Moments
While the exploration of the male rock star has been done time and time again (think Velvet Goldmine, Almost Famous, That Thing You Do! and, [Read More…]