Category: Music Videos
Taylor Swift Brings Whimsical Hope (Though, Is That Really Wise?) to A Bleak Summer With the Fantastical Video For “Cardigan”
Because an “indie” record from Taylor Swift wouldn’t be complete without a song called “cardigan” (played up by the fact that Swift is even selling [Read More…]
Dua Lipa’s “Hallucinate” Video Conjures Visions of Madonna’s “Dear Jessie”
At the end of 1989, Europeans were treated to a fourth single from Madonna’s Like A Prayer album, an unusual-for-her-style number called “Dear Jessie.” With [Read More…]
Among the Wreckage: Kim Petras in the “Broken Glass” Video
As snow cascades down over a tire in the opening scene to the latest single from Kygo featuring Kim Petras, “Broken Glass,” Griffin Stoddard’s dramatic [Read More…]
Selena Gomez Sweetly (Read: Naively) Posits There’s “A Sweeter Place” in New Video featuring Kid Cudi
With Kid Cudi suddenly trending like it’s the early 10s again (thanks to a certain borough-centric movie), it bears noting that Selena Gomez already pulled [Read More…]
Wielding the Momentum of “Sour Candy,” BLACKPINK Offers Another English Track With “How You Like That”
After joining Lady Gaga for a feature on one of her singles for Chromatica, “Sour Candy,” South Korean quartet (Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa) BLACKPINK [Read More…]
Lindsay Lohan Remains the Only One to Have Written A Frank Father-Daughter Relationship Song–Just Sayin’
That vexing term “daddy issues”–the one used to connote that a woman is damaged goods in her pursuit of men who will pay attention to [Read More…]
City Girls’ “Jobs”: Further Proof That In Order to Make Money in the 21st Century, Fame-Chasing (No Matter How Marginal Said Fame) Is Part of the Deal
As if the pandemic needed to further prove to people that working for minimum wage just ain’t worth it, City Girls comes along with a [Read More…]
The Fine Line Between White Savior Grandiosity and the “Like A Prayer” Video Doing The Very Thing White People Are Being Called Upon to Do
There has been an accusation of late, one that can’t be quelled amid the present climate of hostility and rage that has been brewing for [Read More…]
Dance Rebellion: Rosalía & Travis Scott’s “TKN” Offers the Mafia/Corona Philosophy Of Trusting No Outsiders
After the dreamy, psychedelic “Highest in the Room” that Travis Scott featured Rosalía on last year, it now seems only fair for her to invite [Read More…]
Ellie Goulding Shows It Takes Being Vulnerable to Have “Power,” Even While in Quarantine
Filmed by “E.G.” goes the “warning,” of sorts, at the beginning of Ellie Goulding’s latest video following the March release of “Worry About Me” featuring [Read More…]
