Category: Music Videos
Lady’s Gaga’s “Telephone” Redux, Or: Arrest That Man!… For Making Gay Men Want to Do Crime So They Can Go to Prison and Take Homoerotic Showers
More than anything about Lil Nas X’s latest foray into “creating controversy” simply by being himself in the video for “Industry Baby,” it’s most interesting [Read More…]
Bella Poarch: A “Hot Girl” Making Claims of Not Conforming to Cliché Male Expectations of Beauty
Bella Poarch’s runaway hit, “Build-a-Bitch,” might possess a theoretically positive and empowered message about how women shouldn’t yield to the pressures constantly put upon them [Read More…]
The “Save Your Tears Remix” Video Directly Negates the Same Premise Presented in “Build-a-Bitch”
Bella Poarch may have risen so fast to stardom that she didn’t quite have time to check on a more original idea for the video [Read More…]
Where Shakira and Lana Del Rey Collide: “Don’t Wait Up”
As a song, “Don’t Wait Up” is fairly innocuous, and certainly doesn’t compare to Shakira’s previous single (with Black Eyed Peas), “Girl Like Me.” Yet [Read More…]
WAP 2.0: Tanu Muino Shows Off her Own “Wild Side” in Normani and Cardi B’s Collaboration Together
Making a brief foray into the mainstream in 2019 with the mostly lackluster “Small Talk” video for Katy Perry (though, to be fair, it was [Read More…]
Chvrches Posits That the Enduring “Good Girls” Trope Is A Result of Not Killing Our (Male) Idols
So much has happened since Chvrches’ last album, Love Is Dead, was released in 2018 that it feels like an entire lifetime ago. And, in [Read More…]
“Cherish” Meets “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” With A Dash of “Stars Are Blind”: J. Lo’s “Cambia El Paso” Video
Any beach-oriented video with a woman romping around in it, of course, automatically harkens back to Madonna’s 1989 “Cherish” directed by Herb Ritts. Later, Paris [Read More…]
“NDA” Sees Billie Eilish Entering That Phase of Her Career Where Fame Is A Key Topic of Lyrical Discussion
For Madonna, it took until Ray of Light. For Britney, it took until In the Zone. With Billie Eilish, we’re only two albums into her [Read More…]
When You Go From “Good Time Boy” to “Creepy Older Guy in Club”: Ed Sheeran’s Graduation From “Shape of You” to “Bad Habits”
In the summer of 2017, “Shape of You” was as inescapable as coronavirus in 2020 (and, to be honest, even as inescapable as it is [Read More…]
Ed Sheeran Wants to Make Us Feel Pre-Pandemic Vibes With “Bad Habits”
After waiting an entire five years since “Shape of You” was the song of the summer in 2017 (alongside “Despacito”)—a single many are still trying [Read More…]