Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
New York Is the Flame and Madonna is the Moth in “Crave” Video
When it comes to full-circle elements in Madonna’s career, New York City always serves as the infinity symbol, forever bringing her back into its fold. [Read More…]
The Bellagio Will Go On: Céline Dion’s Carpool Karaoke Episode Will Make You Laugh, Cry & Try to Assess Where Her Shoe Warehouse is Located
For those who have forgotten just how “wacky” Céline Dion can be (even though it wasn’t that long ago that her commercial for Célinununu, her genderless [Read More…]
The Hypocrisy of How Female Performances Are Critiqued
In the classic 1991 documentary, Truth or Dare, Madonna unabashedly declared, “I know I’m not the best singer and not the best dancer, but I’m [Read More…]
2015 and 2016: The Years of Remaking The Little Mermaid Into A Stripper
Like Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s 2015 debut, The Lure (its original Polish name being The Daughters of the Dance), 2016’s Little Mermaid sought to make the original [Read More…]
Madonna’s “Future” Seems A Direct Response to Performing in Israel
Despite living in “modern” times, people still very much want to be told what’s “good” and what’s “evil,” as though the line between those two [Read More…]
Female Rage in Now and Then
As part of one of the “let’s throw female audiences a bone” category in the 90s, Now and Then (along with A League of Their [Read More…]
The Ease With Which People Adopt “Being Californian”
Even more than New York (City, for the rest of the state is rather nothing to write home about unless you’re Washington Irving), California represents [Read More…]
The Reverse Makeover in The Mirror Has Two Faces
Never given quite enough credit for the very fact that it was directed by a woman (where was all this fanfare in ’96? Funneled into [Read More…]
Doris Day Represented More Than a Golden Age of Hollywood, But Also a Golden Age of Whitewashing
As one of the last major living icons of un certain Golden Age in Hollywood, the one that made it so much easier to release [Read More…]
Ciara Declares Scars Are Beauty Marks, And If So We Are All Riddled With Them
Fond of the May release, Ciara’s seventh album, Beauty Marks, indeed, marks an occasion. For its been four years since the also May-released Jackie came [Read More…]
