Category: Music Videos
If a (Certain Kind of) Shark Stops Swimming, It Dies; If Charli XCX Stops Evolving in “Used To Know Me,” She Gets Caught in a Bad Romance
Keeping with the current motif in pop culture of how there are many different versions of ourselves (e.g. Anitta’s Versions of Me and Daniels’ Everything [Read More…]
Madonna Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop the “Frozen” Reboot Parade, This Time Adding 070 Shake to the Sickick Remix
Even though spring is formally upon us, Madonna can’t seem to quit her talk of things being “Frozen” (which is actually germane when factoring in [Read More…]
Three’s Company: Lorde Turns to Herself for Comfort in “Secrets From a Girl (Who’s Seen It All)”
Lorde has been admittedly disappointing in terms of coming up with the visuals for Solar Power. And arguably the most exciting thing she did for [Read More…]
The Pratfalls of Monogamy: Charli XCX Breaks “Every Rule” For “Love”—and with Her Single Release Momentum
Just when you think you’ve finally mastered the choreography to one of Charli XCX’s bops from Crash, she goes and decides to release another song [Read More…]
Public Display of Aff(l)ec(k)tion: J. Lo Makes “Marry Me” Surprisingly Less Cheesy by Ballad-ifying It—But Then Manages to Make It Cheesier Than Before By Including Ben Affleck in the Video
Of course, Ben Affleck is no stranger to appearing in a J. Lo video—most famously having done so in 2002’s indelible “Jenny from the Block.” [Read More…]
Patrick Bateman Would Probably Take Dua Lipa and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Sweetest Pie” Too Literally
Being that Megan Thee Stallion churns out singles like cream (from a man’s dick), she tends to have an extensive wish list of people to [Read More…]
Madonna and Fireboy DML’s “Frozen” Remix Feels More Like an Update to 2019’s “Crave” Than 1998’s “Frozen”
There was a time when it would have been unfathomable for Madonna to bother looking back on or revisiting certain moments in her career. Not [Read More…]
Tyga and Doja Cat’s “Freaky Deaky” Video Owes Clueless and Erotica
Ultimately a commentary on how it’s much more fun for a girl to talk about all the things she’d like to do sexually (a.k.a. sext), [Read More…]
Kanye West Doesn’t Kill Kim in His Music, But Eminem Did: Why “Eazy” Sets No Precedent for Male Revenge
There’s no need to emphasize that people’s sensibilities have become far more delicate (while also dichotomously becoming more impervious) since the era when Eminem was [Read More…]
Yuppie Tribalism (Dance Party in Patrick Bateman’s Apartment): Charli XCX’s “Baby” Video
Perhaps if Patrick Bateman hadn’t given a chapter-long discourse on Whitney Houston’s career trajectory in American Psycho, he would have opted instead to do so [Read More…]
