Too Much Trauma Shield: Britney’s Seeming Immunity to Critiques of Environmentally-Damaging Displays of Wealth

Amid Taylor Swift’s placement on the slow-burning pyre for being the celebrity with the highest amount of carbon emissions this year, other stars of every [Read More…]

The Misunderstood Critic in the Age of Celebrity Worship, Or: The Critic Hasn’t Written the Lines You’d Like to Hear, Or: Ann Powers to Lana Del Rey: Bitch You Ain’t Joni Mitchell

Something happened long ago when celebrities were finally allowed the same democratizing outlet as every other plebe: “the tool” of social media. It “empowered” them [Read More…]