Category: Music Videos
Where Shakira and Lana Del Rey Collide: “Don’t Wait Up”
As a song, “Don’t Wait Up” is fairly innocuous, and certainly doesn’t compare to Shakira’s previous single (with Black Eyed Peas), “Girl Like Me.” Yet [Read More…]
WAP 2.0: Tanu Muino Shows Off her Own “Wild Side” in Normani and Cardi B’s Collaboration Together
Making a brief foray into the mainstream in 2019 with the mostly lackluster “Small Talk” video for Katy Perry (though, to be fair, it was [Read More…]
Chvrches Posits That the Enduring “Good Girls” Trope Is A Result of Not Killing Our (Male) Idols
So much has happened since Chvrches’ last album, Love Is Dead, was released in 2018 that it feels like an entire lifetime ago. And, in [Read More…]
“Cherish” Meets “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” With A Dash of “Stars Are Blind”: J. Lo’s “Cambia El Paso” Video
Any beach-oriented video with a woman romping around in it, of course, automatically harkens back to Madonna’s 1989 “Cherish” directed by Herb Ritts. Later, Paris [Read More…]
“NDA” Sees Billie Eilish Entering That Phase of Her Career Where Fame Is A Key Topic of Lyrical Discussion
For Madonna, it took until Ray of Light. For Britney, it took until In the Zone. With Billie Eilish, we’re only two albums into her [Read More…]
When You Go From “Good Time Boy” to “Creepy Older Guy in Club”: Ed Sheeran’s Graduation From “Shape of You” to “Bad Habits”
In the summer of 2017, “Shape of You” was as inescapable as coronavirus in 2020 (and, to be honest, even as inescapable as it is [Read More…]
Ed Sheeran Wants to Make Us Feel Pre-Pandemic Vibes With “Bad Habits”
After waiting an entire five years since “Shape of You” was the song of the summer in 2017 (alongside “Despacito”)—a single many are still trying [Read More…]
(Wet Ass) Pussy (Allusions) Galore: Doja Cat’s “You Right” Video
Although Doja Cat has been doing her best to show us snapshots of a planet called Her (apparently the backlot of Chromatica is on loan), [Read More…]
BANKS Declares “I’m the Devil” and We Should All Be Okay With That
While we heard from many musicians throughout the “lockdown” (as Americans like to call it despite running wild like unleashed animals for much of 2020), [Read More…]
That Ho Over There Takes on That Hypocrite Over There: Megan Thee Stallion’s “Thot Shit”
Like women taking back the word “bitch” (“slut,” “whore,” “slore”—the gamut), Megan Thee Stallion has decided it’s time to take back the erstwhile derogatory term [Read More…]