Category: Music Videos
Charli XCX’s “Good Ones” Assumes There Are Any Good Ones to Let Go
After a year spent in lockdown, it’s evident that Charli XCX is ready to take full advantage of the “no restrictions” policy that has come [Read More…]
Lady Arcadia: Lana Del Rey Edges Further Away From L.A. (Both Literally and Symbolically) While Still Remaining Reverent Toward It
Lana Del Rey has been hinting for quite a while at some sort of shift away from the town that has inspired and kept her [Read More…]
The Madonna/Janet Argument Is One of False Equivalence, But Since We Must Once Again Compare…
If one were going to make the claim of who the Queen of Pop was, the obvious answer is Madonna. It’s not a subjectivity or [Read More…]
Kim Petras Claims “Future Starts Now” While Relying on Stale Visuals of the Past to Elucidate Everyone’s Parisian Fantasy
Although the video itself has yet to arrive, Kim Petras has provided us with a “visualizer” (the latest trend that seems somehow superfluous when people [Read More…]
Olivia Rodrigo’s “brutal” Video Reminds That Capitalism Creates the Conditions in Which Nothing Can Ever Be New
Early on in her still germinal career, Olivia Rodrigo was accused of copying, well, quite a few people. The pastiche overload this “Gen Z representative” [Read More…]
Lorde Didn’t Get the Memo: Britney Already Has A Song Called “Mood Ring” (And It’s Better)
Apparently there’s a new trend afoot where post-00s “icons” steal titles from bona fide 00s icons. For, on the heels of Lizzo and Cardi B [Read More…]
TBH, Lindsay Lohan’s “Rumors” Is Better & So Is Watching Hercules: On Lizzo and Cardi B’s Collaboration
The hype surrounding a collaboration between Lizzo and Cardi B has been building since the initial social media tease earlier this month. And, like the [Read More…]
(As)Phyx(iate) You: Dennis Hopper Wants His Blue Velvet Act Back in The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath”
Not wanting to full-on steal the title from Berlin’s signature 80s classic, The Weeknd’s latest single is called “Take My Breath” instead of “Take My [Read More…]
Bridgerton Shit: Pop Smoke and Dua Lipa’s “Demeanor” Video
Primping in the mirror, as a courtier (or Britney Spears in the “Circus” video) does, Dua Lipa establishes the intended—if not necessarily achieved—illicit tone of [Read More…]
Who’s Peur des Filles?
“Not so long ago in a manaxy not so far away,” begins the “Peur des Filles” video from L’Impératrice that serves as a “short film” [Read More…]
