Category: Music Videos
The “Invisible Thread” Narrative (Along With Peter Pan) Ties Into Taylor Swift’s Mennonite Chic “Willow” Video
Picking up where she left off with the “cardigan” video back in July, Taylor Swift brings us a companion single (to go with a folklore’s [Read More…]
Even With 80s Flair, Black Eyed Peas and Shakira Remind That the 00s Remain the Only Relevant Decade
As the Black Eyed Peas occasionally materialize to prove that they’re still around and “thriving” (even without Fergie), it usually requires a “feature” from another [Read More…]
Madonna’s “You’ll See”: The Music Video That Lends A Touch of Glamor to Seasonal Depression
In time for a seasonal and mid-decade shift, “You’ll See” served as the first single from Madonna’s 1995 compilation of ballads, Something to Remember. Unleashed [Read More…]
Megan Thee Stallion Brings Back Real Choreography, Random Cameos For “Body” Video
In a year characterized by the distinctly flaccid music video posing as “lo-fi” thanks to Covid restrictions (see: Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey and Billie [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa Try To Re-create Wreck Room But It’s The Double Down Saloon, a.k.a. “Hannah Montana-ified”
In another instance of naming a song too similarly to (read: exactly the same as) someone else’s, Miley Cyrus has challenged The Weeknd’s own “Prisoner” [Read More…]
She Wants the D(estruction of Patriarchy): MARINA’s “Man’s World,” Despite Title, Calls For An Alternative to This Fledgling System
James Brown famously released the “biblically chauvinistic” song “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” in 1966. To add an extra layer to that chauvinism, Brown’s [Read More…]
Ariana Grande’s Lackluster Video Concepts Have Never Translated Into the Greatness That Britney Spears Could Lend the Similarly Banal
On the heels of two rather especially “meh” videos from Ariana Grande, “Positions” and “34+35,” it leaves one wondering how a fellow Princess of Pop, [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Makes A Strong Case to Keep Dead Malls As Mausoleums to American Capitalism’s “Glossier” Era
While Billie Eilish, at her “tender age” (to use a cringe-y expression), could never possibly know the true clout a mall once had (reaching a [Read More…]
Public Anger Turns “Fever”-ish When Dua Lipa and Angèle Are Spotted Having A Good Time Through the Small Hours of the London Night
There is a timely sense of rage bubbling to the surface at every turn in Dua Lipa’s latest video co-starring Angèle, who collaborated with her [Read More…]
Five Years Later, It’s Easy To See The Quarantine Vibes of Adele’s “Hello”
Five years ago, which now somehow feels like twenty, Adele graced us with the first single from what was her third album, 25–reportedly the last [Read More…]
