Category: Music Videos
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…]
Ariana Grande’s “Positions” Celebrates the Multifacetedness of Women in the Spirit of Meredith Brooks’ “Bitch”
It was Beyoncé that pointed out to us all in 2011 with “Run the World (Girls)” just, who, exactly is in control, and here in [Read More…]
Dua Lipa Offers Yet Another Rendition of “Levitating” featuring DaBaby
As though the release of Club Future Nostalgia wasn’t enough, Dua Lipa has decided to riff off the same concept she wielded for her already [Read More…]
Megan Thee Stallion Puts Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton in a Cocktail Shaker for “Don’t Stop”
Seemingly not one to ever stop–even after getting shot–Megan Thee Stallion has decided also not to lose the momentum of her collaboration with Cardi B [Read More…]
Billie Eilish’s “No Time To Die” Video Offers A Lounge Singer Trope & Not Much Else
Where music videos for Bond themes are concerned, there has been no shortage of memorable ones. From Duran Duran’s “A View To A Kill” with [Read More…]
“Franchise” This
It’s almost as if Travis Scott is trying to tell us something about his strategy for world domination in the titles of his songs of [Read More…]
