Author: Genna Rivieccio
The Year of “Doubling” on Women’s Album Covers
It’s nothing new in symbolism and psychology that women are expected to be either a Madonna or a whore. Nay, they can only be these [Read More…]
Best Albums of 2025
Compared to the movies released in 2025, there’s no denying that the musical offerings were slightly more exciting and arguably more billable as being part [Read More…]
When It Comes to the Rockumentary Genre, The End of an Era Ain’t It—Truth Or Dare (and I’m Going to Tell You a Secret) Still Is
As if knowing, on some level, that she would need a form of “insurance” to make it so that the masses would remember “Taylor Swift” [Read More…]
2025: A (Mostly) Lackluster Year in Film in Pretty Much Every Way Possible
Looking back at 2025, there were many lackluster elements about it (almost as many as there were “what the fuck?” elements). But most noticeably when [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue Makes “XMAS” Gay Again (Or as Gay as One Can in This Climate)
As if taking a page from Robyn’s “marinating-on-a-song-for-a-decade” playbook (the most recent example of that being “Dopamine”), Kylie Minogue has been sitting on the concept [Read More…]
On Introverts and Misanthropes Being Trolled by The Muppet Christmas Carol Line, “And if you need to know the measure of a man, you simply count his friends.”
In the category of, “Well, guess I’m fucked then,” there’s a particular lyric from 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol that will leave introverts, shy people [Read More…]
In the Present, Kate McCallister Would Be Called a “Karen” Rather Than “Hyper”
While the fan focus of Home Alone tends to be on Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) or his antagonists, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), Kevin’s mom, [Read More…]
A New Key Takeaway From Home Alone: Busybodies Ruin Lives
As the obsession with Home Alone only grows stronger with each passing year, it’s been studied almost like a hallowed text. And technically, it is, [Read More…]
The Endless Oversaturation of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” Results in the Song Breaking Another Billboard Hot 100 Record—And the Reminder that Someone Else Ought to Share the Credit
At what point does a “comfort” song become a total annoyance that makes you want to bash your brains in? When it comes to Mariah [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s “It’s Time” Announcement This Year: A PSA for Christmas’ Marriage to Capitalism
Although Mariah Carey had already announced, “It’s tiiiiiiiime!” long ago at this point, on November 1st, as actual Christmas approaches, it bears recalling just how [Read More…]
