Category: Music Videos
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…]
Rain on Me: Billie Eilish Borrows from LDR, Beyoncé Aesthetics in “Happier Than Ever” Video
Wanting to achieve that “vintage” effect that Lana Del Rey has had the monopoly on since 2012, Billie Eilish’s latest song (at least the first [Read More…]
“EveryTime I Cry” is Ava Max’s “Rain on Me”
Because sad dance anthems have been the way of summer ever since Reich & Bleich remixed Lana Del Rey in 2012, Ava Max continues the [Read More…]
Lady’s Gaga’s “Telephone” Redux, Or: Arrest That Man!… For Making Gay Men Want to Do Crime So They Can Go to Prison and Take Homoerotic Showers
More than anything about Lil Nas X’s latest foray into “creating controversy” simply by being himself in the video for “Industry Baby,” it’s most interesting [Read More…]
Bella Poarch: A “Hot Girl” Making Claims of Not Conforming to Cliché Male Expectations of Beauty
Bella Poarch’s runaway hit, “Build-a-Bitch,” might possess a theoretically positive and empowered message about how women shouldn’t yield to the pressures constantly put upon them [Read More…]
The “Save Your Tears Remix” Video Directly Negates the Same Premise Presented in “Build-a-Bitch”
Bella Poarch may have risen so fast to stardom that she didn’t quite have time to check on a more original idea for the video [Read More…]
