Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Keep Your “Supplies,” Or: What the Fuck is Justin Timberlake Doing?
With what will soon amount to five albums in sixteen years, former boy band staple Justin Timberlake has never bothered to get very political, relying [Read More…]
Class Envy: The Man Who Would Be Vogue vs. The Man Who Would Be FBI’s Most Wanted
With “The Man Who Would Be Vogue,” the first electrifying episode to kick off the second season of American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni [Read More…]
Pretty Persuasion: A More Macabre Combo Platter of Clueless and Mean Girls
Prophetic in many ways for its key narrative plot point of accusing a man in power (well, a teacher) of sexual assault, Marcos Siega’s (yes, [Read More…]
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…]
