Category: Music Videos
The Weeknd Takes Mask-Wearing (and Metaphor) to a Different Level in “Save Your Tears” Video
Building evermore (yes, it’s a Taylor Swift nod because she does the same thing with her songs and music videos) on the brand that is [Read More…]
Katy Perry Does Her Best to Convince Us It’s “Not the End of the World”
Finally finding her moment to wield the long-standing callout that Zooey Deschanel is her doppelganger, Katy Perry’s concept behind her latest single and video from [Read More…]
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…]
