Category: Music Videos
The Aggressively White Heteronormativity of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” Taylor Swift wields this indelible Pablo Neruda quote to set the tone for a song Jake Gyllenhaal [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s Ultra 80s, Girls Just Want to Have Fun-esque “New Shapes” Video
Charli XCX has never kept her love of the 80s (and therefore the decade’s influence on her work) a secret. With the sonic landscape of [Read More…]
Lorde’s Video for “Fallen Fruit”: A Missed Opportunity in Significantly Evoking What the Song is All About
Does staring “thoughtfully” into the camera really “mean something” anymore? Lorde seems to think so. That it’s all that’s required to get across the message [Read More…]
“Kiss of Life” Is Another Kiss of Death For Kylie Minogue’s Disco Stylings
Kylie Minogue might be trying her best to resuscitate the decided artistic flop that was Disco (tailored to an older gay gentleman imagining himself to [Read More…]
“Thriller”: Michael Jackson’s Admission of Being a Monster Hiding in Plain Sight
The simultaneously sexless and hyper-sexual persona of Michael Jackson reached a peak in December of 1983, when the video for “Thriller” was released. Directed by [Read More…]
In A More Evolved World, Christine and the Queens’ La Vita Nuova Could Act As the New “Thriller”
Each year around Halloween, in spite of Michael Jackson being a pederast, the same obligation to dredge up the “Thriller” video arises. With almost as [Read More…]
“1979” Lite: Olivia Rodrigo’s “Traitor” Video Proffers More Pop Culture Recycling
It would be easy to say that “teenhood” never changes, therefore the experience might look similar throughout the decades. And yet, there’s no denying that [Read More…]
An Insulated Society for the Matriarchal: Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Banisters” Video
Perhaps what stands out most about Lana Del Rey’s latest visual foray is the fact that there is nary a man present. Considering what Del [Read More…]
Adele and Xavier Dolan Make It 2015 Again with “Easy on Me”
For a lot of people, it’s not difficult to see that 2015 was probably the last “viable” year. A time of final remaining “innocence” (even [Read More…]
Brokeback Mountain Redux: Lil Nas X’s “That’s What I Want”
At the end of the video for “That’s What I Want,” it reads, “Story by Lil Nas X.” But the more accurate crediting would be [Read More…]
