Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
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…]
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…]
