Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Surviving the American Brainwash: Marina and the Diamonds’ “Hollywood”
“Hollywood” is one of those words that has long been meant to serve as a synecdoche for the overall grotesquerie of the kind of skewed, [Read More…]
The Pot That Called The Kettle Black: Pete Davidson Mocking Kanye for Being a “Jackass”
Sensing the potential of Ariana Grande catching onto the very overt fact that she could do much better or, at the very least, go the [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Seems to Strategically Have Chosen When to “Get Political” Post-Kanye Body Snatching/MAGA Hat Wearing
Taylor Swift, notoriously mum on all matters pertaining to politics as a result of her solid Christian fanbase (it goes hand in hand with the [Read More…]
Wanderer Finds Cat Power in Familiar Territory: Solid Gold
After Cat Power (Christian name Charlyn “Chan” Marshall) released her ninth album in 2012, Sun, it seemed as though she was content to disappear for [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey Isn’t Done Lusting After “Bad Men” on “Happiness Is A Butterfly”
Single-handedly bringing metaphor back into song in a big way, Lana Del Rey has given us yet another preview of a song she teased earlier [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s New Single, “With You,” Ironically Slightly Less Needy Than 1994 Single, “Without You”
Immortalized to the true extent of all its cheesy glory in 2001’s Bridget Jones’ Diary with Bridget (Renee Zellweger) herself karaokeing a truly atrocious rendition [Read More…]
Banksy Proves Art Is Only As Valuable As the Rich Make It
While some artists–whether musicians, writers, what have you–only get softer in their old age, it would appear Banksy is just getting warmed up in terms [Read More…]
Where Prince’s “1999” Looked to the Future, Charli XCX & Troye Sivan’s “1999” Pleads for a Return the Past
When Prince released the album 1999 in the final months of 1982, the world was edging ever closer to that apocalyptic year George Orwell had [Read More…]
“Beer/Here”: Musicians & Their Repeat Rhymes
As Lana Del Rey gradually reveals snippets from her forthcoming album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, after already releasing “Mariners Apartment Complex” and “Venice Bitch,” the latest [Read More…]
The Ariana Grande Enigma: I’m Not Your Meat, Don’t Hang Me On Your Misogyny Hook
While everyone was a combination of aghast and enchanted (the two adjectives often go dichotomously hand in hand) at the initial revelation that Ariana Grande [Read More…]
