Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
A Voracious Appetite for Love: “Crave”
Continuing down the path of intricate minimalism following “I Rise,” Madonna’s latest single offers a sweeter sort of yearning and burning than the one presented [Read More…]
Stop Trying to Make Commercialized Camp Happen–It Defeats Its Entire Purpose
First of all, no event of a mainstream nature can possibly be commodifiably camp without the presence of Madonna, who managed to make cone bra [Read More…]
A Friendship Based on Trauma Bonding Grows in Laguna: Dead to Me
When you’re young, friendship forms rather easily, seemingly apropos of nothing. There isn’t discernment beyond being in the same age group. That is, until the [Read More…]
“I Rise” Is The Motivational Anthem Madonna Has Been Trying to Perfect for Awhile
As far back as 1986 with True Blue‘s “Love Makes the World Go Round,” Madonna has been working toward crafting the perfect “unity” anthem. The [Read More…]
Madonna and the Holograms: A Commentary on the Dilemma of Performance in the 21st Century
Of all the places to dabble with the concept of “augmented” reality (as though it’s not already augmented enough), Madonna–and her holograms–likely knew that Las [Read More…]
Do You Respect Mass Communication So Much You Want to Fuck It?: Rammstein Does With “Radio”
If there’s anyone who knows something about growing up in the East/West divide of Berlin in the Cold War days it is Till Lindemann of [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Frenchifies “Cute But Psycho But Cute” For “ME!” and It’s Not Mignon
Like “former” nemesis before her, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift’s latest “effort” brings to mind the image of Perry in the pastel-saturated, filled with “irony” video [Read More…]
FEAR & No Loathing in the Second Half of MARINA’s Double Album
Despite the fact that MARINA is a firm believer in the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross philosophy theory that, “There are only two emotions: love and fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, [Read More…]
Quaalude Anyone? 70s Glam Punctuates Mark Ronson & Lykke Li’s “Late Night Feelings” Video
JP Chartrand, who most notably directed the video for Katy Perry’s 2017 summer anthem, “Bon Appétit,” combines his hyper-surreal style with the perfect decade to [Read More…]
Madonna’s “Medellín” Video Is Her Most High Art Visual Rendering Since the Bedtime Stories Years
Although, unquestionably, all of Madonna’s music videos (except perhaps “Everybody”) have consistently exhibited a predilection toward her painterly influences in life (Tamara de Lempicka, Remedios [Read More…]
