Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Morrissey Makes Any Cover Maudlin: California Son (By Way of Manchester)
While it’s become increasingly impossible for people to separate Morrissey’s politics from his work, maybe it will soon also be impossible to separate his covers [Read More…]
Jonas Åkerlund Manipulates Time Again In “God Control”–Because Nostalgia Is Required to Make NYC Relatable
As Madonna has likened her time in Lisbon to the early years of her New York days, when she had first moved there and knew [Read More…]
I Feel So Alone on a Friday Night: Essential LDR Songs for the Sad Party Girl In You
As one, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, embarks upon year thirty-four (on June 21, much to the chagrin of Geminis everywhere who recently had to reconcile with [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Again Can’t Calm Down on Making Being Gay About Her in Video for “You Need to Calm Down”
The assumption that, “If Katy Perry and Taylor Swift can make peace with one another, so, too, can gays and homophobes” is the crux of [Read More…]
Ashley O’s Music Video Looks Like a Target Commercial Before Showing Cracks in the Veneer
For those who couldn’t help but tap their foot to the pre-manufactured rhythm of fictional pop star Ashley O on the third episode of the [Read More…]
Murder Mystery: The Tourist Meets Ocean’s Twelve Meets Murder on the Orient Express in a Blender–And Also Rich People Do Fucked Up Things
Taking into account the ever-waning ability of audiences to digest the rom-com, Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler have reteamed after 2011’s Just Go With It [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Says “You Need To Calm Down,” Can’t Seem To With Her Political Shtick–And It Is a Shtick
Being political tends to come early on in one’s career if he or she is genuine about it. It happened with Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, [Read More…]
Madame X (X for Xtra Cerebral)
Madonna may have once quipped that she wanted an X rating for her Truth or Dare documentary because X meant “Xtra fun,” but Madame X [Read More…]
Black Mirror Series 5 Really Wants You to Know Your Media Addictions Are Fucked
Parsed down to just three episodes this season (as it was in the first two series) on the heels of its movie iteration, Bandersnatch, Black [Read More…]
The Shrinking Violet’s Need to Stand Out Through Ho-dom: A Perpetuated Stereotype in Looking for Mr. Goodbar
As the somewhat derogatorily called “women’s movement” raged on in the 70s, it was only natural that the media was going to jump on the [Read More…]
