Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Lana Del Rey and Frances Bean: Anti-Suicide Poster Girls (Courtney Love, Not So Much)
Considering Lana Del Rey’s recent release of “Mariners Apartment Complex,” which, in the estimation of some, addresses the very interview that had fans and critics [Read More…]
Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour With You: Like An “Upbeat” Revolutionary Road
In the era of pre-code Hollywood, the scandalous and horndog nature of most screenplays was utterly pervasive. Samson Raphaelson’s (who also wrote such classics as [Read More…]
“GTFO” Is Mariah Carey’s “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay”
While James Packer might not have been cheating on Mariah Carey at the time their engagement disintegrated at the end of 2016 (in fact, it [Read More…]
The #SheDominatedMeToo, #SheTheShrew Movement
There was a time, long ago now, it seems, when the notion of a woman raping a man was completely and utterly unfathomable. In the [Read More…]
The Direction of Lana Del Rey’s Sound Continues To Meld Her Pre-Fame Style With Leonard Cohen’s
In November of 2017, Lana Del Rey participated in a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen in his hometown of Montreal. Called Tower of Song (in [Read More…]
The Feud That Escalated Between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Speaks to the “Crash” Conundrum of Blackness
Crash was, like La La Land, one of those Oscar-hyped/winning films that people instantaneously lauded before ripping it a new asshole for being “contrived” and [Read More…]
How Do You Render A Pussy Man Even More Sexless? By Turning Him Into a Puppet: Nicki Minaj’s “Barbie Dreams” Video
As immortalized in the best documentary ever made, Truth or Dare, Madonna famously called then boyfriend Warren Beatty “pussy man” as an epithet connoting that [Read More…]
Dick Is the Root of All Evil: Thelma and Louise As Eerie Smoke Signal for #MeToo
When one watches Thelma and Louise, at least one of the cinephile persuasion, all that can be thought is: who is the woman that wrote [Read More…]
Ed Earl Dodd: A Man Who Doesn’t Exist
There is the fantasy of a man. The kind primarily dreamed of by a fallen woman who still holds, underneath it all, loose dreams of [Read More…]
Ariana Grande’s “Better Off” Is Extremely Awkward to Listen to Now
With the music world in shock over the death of Mac Miller due to (a somewhat inevitable) overdose (something Demi Lovato has continued to succeed [Read More…]
