Category: Music Videos
Black Is King: A Consummation of Beyoncé’s Previous Visual Albums
As someone who invented the concept of the surprise album drop (sorry Taylor) and the visual accompaniment that goes with it, Beyoncé altered music history [Read More…]
Billie Eilish’s “Livelier” Sequel to “No Time to Die”: “My Future”
After releasing the more ironically than ever titled “No Time to Die” back in February, when people (ahem, Americans) still thought the movies were going [Read More…]
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…]
