Author: Genna Rivieccio
LDR Persists in Conjuring the 60s With “Coachella-Woodstock In My Mind”—Albeit With More of a Joan Osborne than Joan Baez Feel
“I was at Coachella leaning on your shoulder, watching your husband swing in time/I guess I was in it ‘cause baby for a minute I [Read More…]
Strip Away the Irony & Katy Perry’s “Bon Appétit” is The Perfect Ho Summer Anthem
Every summer has its anthem, and regardless of your opinions on Katy Perry (especially if you’re a Britney Spears fan), her latest single, “Bon Appétit” [Read More…]
Celebrities Suque, Or Smoking in the Met
It goes without saying that being a celebrity probably makes everything better. They can bitch all they want about the lack of privacy–and Kim K [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus’ Latest, “Malibu”: Hole It Is Not & May Secretly Be a Love Letter to That Collie She’s Running Around With in the Video
If anyone is going to lay claim to the title “Malibu” for a song, it’s still going to be Hole, who released the song from [Read More…]
Acting, Too, Must Be Genderless
Because life wouldn’t be life without the constant discussion of gender and how it shouldn’t exist, and because the MTV Movie Awards desperately needed a [Read More…]
Lena Dunham’s Hospital Bed Selfie Attempt at Empathy Yet Another Case of Misguided White Saviorness
Lena Dunham is, at this point, fairly well-known for sticking her nose into matters she thinks will smell pleasant to her ever-expanding portfolio of what [Read More…]
A Few Concept Ideas for the Britney Spears Musical
The notion of Broadway turning the oeuvre of Britney Spears into a musical sounds both like a taste of a poison paradise and exactly what [Read More…]
Madonna, Met Ball 2017 & The Pertinence of the American Life Album Now More Than Ever
The Met Ball, while growing increasingly tired in the themes it chooses–this year’s being not so much a theme as a decision to honor Rei Kawakubo [Read More…]
The Vital Return of Zhe Zhe
If you still haven’t heard of Zhe Zhe by now, you’re really sleeping on the only (and possibly last) great satire of New York City, [Read More…]
Altamont versus Fyre Festival: Two Music History Catastrophes That Show How Flaccid the Millennial Generation Is
It’s easy to be a self-hating millennial. Shit, it’s easy to be a self-hating anything. That is, if you have any appropriate sense of shame. [Read More…]