Category: Music Videos
A Ritual Sacrifice for PG&E: Charli XCX’s “Beg For You” Video
Directed by Nick Harwood, Charli XCX’s latest video to promote her upcoming fifth album, Crash, is nothing if not decidedly Californian (maybe even as much [Read More…]
Florence + the Machine’s “King” One-Ups “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” on the Feminist Anthem Front, But Is Still Hemmed In By the Limits of a Patriarchal Language
It’s been four years since Florence + the Machine came out with High As Hope, the band’s fourth record released over a nine-year period. If [Read More…]
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Presents a Woman’s Persistent “At War” Nature of Wanting to Be Taken Seriously Versus Wanting to Fuck Around
Because women’s “liberation,” as a rule, is really not all that “old” or “time-honored,” the gender, unlike the male one, has had to deal with [Read More…]
FKA Twigs’ “Jealousy” Reminds That Black British Culture in Music Is Rarely As Celebrated As It Should Be
There is so often talk of the “Black experience” in America, yet, in certain regards, one has to wonder if that experience isn’t even more [Read More…]
No More “Bette Davis Eyes,” No More “Private Eyes”—It’s All About “Shinigami Eyes” Now
Commencing with a scene that makes it look like she’s in an AI version of Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell,” Grimes ramps up her “metaverse” [Read More…]
GAYLE Channels Lindsay Lohan’s Freaky Friday Character in “ur just horny”
As the only one left in the 2006 car trio (a.k.a. “the summit” that defined a decade) to never really get “justice” after the way [Read More…]
Sir Mix-A-Lot Seems to Take Hold of the Set Design in Shenseea and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Lick” Video
After a steady stream of single releases since 2016, it would appear that Shenseea is finally poised for her breakthrough in a similar fashion to [Read More…]
“Like A Prayer” + A Britney Spears Perfume Ad = Xtina’s “Santo” Video
Although Christina Aguilera is a trailblazing pop culture icon in her own right, there’s no denying that, at times, there has been some overlap with [Read More…]
“Meta Angel,” Or: Look Out Taylor, “The Archer” is FKA Twigs Now
Keeping the momentum of Caprisongs going strong, FKA Twigs has already released a third video (following “Tears in the Club” and “Ride the Dragon”) for [Read More…]
Gerontophobia on the Dance Floor
Scarcely a week has gone by since the release of Dawn FM, along with a new video for the second single, “Sacrifice,” and already The [Read More…]
