Category: Music Videos
Bleachers’ “Alma Mater” Video Is Not As Lynchian As It Wants To Be
As the incestuously intertwined relationship between Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey and the former’s new wife, Margaret Qualley, intensifies, perhaps it’s to be expected that [Read More…]
On How Vanessa Williams’ “Save the Best for Last” Is the Ultimate “Eh, I Guess You’ll Do” Track
Echoing Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” long before it ever came out, Vanessa Williams’ hit single from 1992, “Save the Best for Last,” also [Read More…]
No Dick Allowed: Kali Uchis and Karol G’s “Labios Mordidos” Video
After releasing her third album, Red Moon in Venus, earlier this year, Kali Uchis is already moving on to her next “era” (since that’s the [Read More…]
This Ain’t “We Are the World”: Björk and Rosalía Join Forces on a Charity Single Called “Oral”
In many ways, a collaboration between Björk and Rosalía feels obvious, even overdue. A no-brainer. In others, the two artists seem so musically divergent that [Read More…]
Less Phallic, More Spiritual: Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cobra”
While one might automatically assume that a song called “Cobra,” coming from Megan Thee Stallion, would be inherently innuendo-laden (it was, after all, in “WAP” [Read More…]
Sevdaliza and Grimes Enlist Madonna, Julia Fox and A$AP Ferg to Remind Us That “Nothing Lasts Forever”
There is perhaps no better person to incorporate into a song called “Nothing Lasts Forever” than Madonna. Not just because she has made a career [Read More…]
No Smoke, Just Mirrors: Dua Lipa Offers Up Some Madonna-Inspired Magic on “Houdini”
By now, it’s not exactly “undercover” (despite any “spy movies” a certain pop star is about to be in [*cough cough* Argylle]) that Dua Lipa [Read More…]
Technology Proves to Be the Hero Rather Than the Villain in Music When It Comes to The Beatles’ “Now and Then”
As talk of AI being the biggest threat to humanity (apart from climate change) since the invention of the atom bomb (also still a threat [Read More…]
Madison Beer Retreats to the “Sweet Relief” of the 2000s, Corroborating That There’s Little Relief in the Present
As is the case with most of “Gen Z pop culture,” it’s usually grafted from the 2000s. The latest addition to that truism comes in [Read More…]
Charli XCX Creates Her Own Version of CSS’ “City Grrrl” With “In The City”
In 2011, CSS released their third album, La Liberación. Still finding it difficult to recreate the “virality” of 2005’s “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex,” [Read More…]
