Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Børns to Die: Blue Madonna Album Highlights Are All About Lana Del Rey Collabs
Three years after the release of Børns’ debut album, Dopamine, his second offering to the music gods is a perfected product on a sound and motif [Read More…]
I Love Albicocca: Call Me By Your Name
“By the time you’re thirty, your heart gives out. And each time it gets harder to start with someone new… I’ve never come close to [Read More…]
File Under Why God Why?: Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” Being Used in an Applebee’s Commercial
As though life was content to continue proving, “I will shit on everything you love,” Applebee’s use of the unspokenly sacrosanct power ballad that is [Read More…]
No “Finesse” to What Bruno Mars & Cardi B Are “Doing”
Though the Cardi B and Bruno Mars collaboration, “Finesse,” a remix of a song already featured on the odious 24K Magic–the 2016 album that wouldn’t die–is [Read More…]
Whether Miami, Tokyo or London, Taylor Swift’s “End Game” Video Is An Attempt to Channel “Carefreeness”
As Taylor Swift continues to retool her “reputation” to her advantage by becoming more of a bad girl, it seems the video for “End Game” [Read More…]
Holiday & The Family Stone: The Artless Implications of What Happens When The Sister You’re Not Dating Has It Going On
Ah, is there any more complex relationship than the one shared between sisters? Likely not. For, in contrast to the brother-brother or brother-sister permutation, there [Read More…]
Anger Begets Anger & Then Some in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri–Especially If You See It Post-Golden Globes Win
Martin McDonagh, a longtime playwright who has been quoted as saying he possesses a “respect for the whole history of films and a slight disrespect [Read More…]
Let LDR “Get Free”
The fine line between inspiration and total ripoff has always been a source of contention in every artistic medium. From Banksy/Mr. Brainwash “expounding on” the [Read More…]
Diet Misandry at Golden Globes 2018
“Here are the all-male nominees,” Natalie Portman underscores while standing next to Ron Howard to present the award for Best Director (which, by the way, [Read More…]
The Nora Ephron Sensibilities of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Once again speaking to the trend in pop culture of either reverting well into the past or much further into the future, one of the [Read More…]
