Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
J. Lo in Capri & the Myth of Italy
People have such staunch and unshakeable ideas about Italy, especially when it comes to idealizing it. Who knows if this was always the case or [Read More…]
Thinkin’ Bout How Jack Antonoff Has Somehow Remade Lana Del Rey in Lena Dunham’s Image
It’s not feminist or whatever to talk about women’s looks in the present climate, especially when famous women already have enough scrutiny on a daily [Read More…]
“Blue Jeans”: The Forever Pool-Drenched Song of End of Summer
While Lana Del Rey had to “just ride” on the coattails of a remix’s success in order to find a larger audience in the mainstream [Read More…]
Sky Ferreira’s Version of “Voices Carry” Packs A Lot of Intent
Like many women in the music industry who deal with the constant uphill battle that is simply being a woman in the music industry, Sky [Read More…]
If “Get Together” & Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem Reproduced, It Would Be Something Akin to CHVRCHES & Wednesday Campanella’s “Out of My Head” Video
The impact anime and animation has had on the music video world has only steadily increased ever since A-ha’s “Take On Me” (that’s right) wowed [Read More…]
Hot Summer Nights (Mid-July, When You And I Were Forever Wild)
During 2017, the year that vetted Timothée Chalamet to be a part of the next generation of Hollywood “stars” (if such a term can really exist [Read More…]
“In My Feelings” Anew: Drake Gives His Dance Craze An Official Video
Like Ola Ray in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, Drake awakens at the end of the visual accompaniment to “In My Feelings” both terrified and relieved, [Read More…]
“Love Stinks,” For As Trash Rock As It Is, Remains the Ultimate Nihilist’s Anthem When It Comes to L’Amour
Before we had the seriousness and defeatism of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” or the playful, I won’t give up stylings of [Read More…]
She’s The Man Is Strangely Anti-Feminist
Karen McCullah (once known as Karen McCullah Lutz, but perhaps changed it because of being associated with Lutz on 30 Rock) founded her entire screenwriting career [Read More…]
Robyn’s “Missing U” is The Tori Paradox & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Rolled Into One
It was Aeschylus who famously said, “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” For Robyn, that post-breakup grief [Read More…]
