Category: Music Videos
Aliens Surely Can’t Be As Prosaic As Humans—But Doja Cat’s “Need To Know” Video Is Just the “Human Experience,” Alien-ified
Because “alien legitimacy” apparently wouldn’t be complete without Grimes, Doja Cat has continued her outer space motif from the “Kiss Me More” video (more than [Read More…]
Madonna’s “Secret” and Billie Eilish’s “Lost Cause”
In 1994, Madonna had already long ago released her sophomore album. Ten years prior to be exact, with 1984’s Like A Virgin. While the sound [Read More…]
Hollywood Infected Your Brain: MARINA Blows Up the System as Usual in “Venus Fly Trap”
MARINA has long been on that very short list of pop stars in the room who “shouldn’t be here.” At least from the perspective of [Read More…]
Magical Realism Cowboy: Dua Lipa’s “Love Again”
As Dua Lipa continues to keep the singles coming from her sophomore juggernaut, Future Nostalgia, she managed to find time in between prepping for her [Read More…]
Billie Eilish’s Blondeness Lands Her Some Friends As She Does Her “34+35 Remix” Video Shit
Taking a page from Ariana Grande’s Positions catalogue (complete with the game of Twister Ari was a fool not to wield in her visuals), Billie [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Is A Jobist
Despite the increasingly worn-down veneer of what “work” is supposed to “mean” in a post-COVID world, Billie Eilish, that ever-increasingly normie Gen Zer/goy toy, has [Read More…]
“Sun Goes Down” and Yes, Daddy: Two Pop Cultural Moments That Prove Growing Up With Religious Rhetoric Still Leads to Gay Repression and Lifelong Trauma
In the past week, two significant releases have occurred in the gay pantheon. One has been slightly more under the radar than Lil Nas X’s [Read More…]
Bond Girl Meets Charlie’s Angel: MARINA Is A Timeless Vision in Video For “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land”
Perhaps the only other “pop star” who has been able to get away with noticeably long (a.k.a. more than three words) titles for single names [Read More…]
Summoning Lavigne, Swift, Spears and Mulligan: Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u”
Continuing to ramp up promotion for her debut album, Sour, Olivia Rodrigo has released a third single and video called “good 4 u.” While the [Read More…]
A Re-appreciation of the Cheesy (and Queer) Goodness of Nick Kamen’s “Each Time You Break My Heart”
As one of the many “bohunks” (an offensive term John Hughes was fond of) from the 1980s, Nick Kamen will forever live on in the [Read More…]
