Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Lady Bird Will Be Even More Sacramentan in Australia
Sacramentans have that unique, angst-ridden edge about them that thrived quite nicely in the type of mainstream pop culture that supported the tonal vibes of [Read More…]
“Django Jane” Makes Beyoncé’s Feminism Look Especially Flimsy
Released in conjunction with the Prince-saturated “Make Me Feel,” “Django Jane” and its video offers something of a more “militant” tone than its companion single, [Read More…]
Janelle Monáe Takes “Fluidity” Where Prince and Michael Jackson Couldn’t
Like the lovechild of Prince (the riff to “Kiss” most definitely comes to mind), Michael Jackson (you can’t say “The Way You Make Me Feel” [Read More…]
“Drowned World/Substitute For Love” & “Mer Girl”: Two Perfect Bookends on an Indelible Album
Because it is the twentieth anniversary of an album consistently ranked as being among one of the greatest of all-time–and possibly the very best in [Read More…]
Desi Arnaz Was Wrong: Santiago Can Be Very Chilly When You’re Trans
“You don’t choose your sexuality, it’s how you are. It’s nature,” deliberate two quintessential New York City biddies after coming out of a screening of [Read More…]
Belgium and “Frozen” Tango Again: Loena Hendrickx Pays A Very Literal Homage–Just in Time for the Ray of Light Anniversary
While someone Loena Hendrickx’s tender age of eighteen more likely relates to the term “Frozen” in pop culture pertaining to the Disney animated film, the Belgian [Read More…]
Everything Sucks! Is Thorough In Its 90s Research But Doesn’t Quite Achieve What Stranger Things Does With the 80s As Its Less Put Upon Crutch
Because nostalgia is at such a premium in the present era of wanting to escape into the past when it is not merely one’s imagination [Read More…]
How Rihanna Crept Into Music As A Pop Princess Before Snapping Her Fingers & Becoming @badgalriri
While “Pon De Replay” might have been one of the summer anthems of 2005, it was the sort of Sean Paul-reminiscent track that could have [Read More…]
National Anthem: The Politicism of Lana Del Rey Before Lust for Life
Lana Del Rey has generally been regarded as an artist that was not very political in her work up to 2017’s Lust for Life, an [Read More…]
The Color Wheel Takes the Margot/Richie Dynamic Where Wes Anderson Wouldn’t
The steady presence of Alex Ross Perry in the world of what can still vaguely be constituted as “indie film” (once associated only with Miramax-distributed [Read More…]
