Category: Music Videos
“Throw It Back” Video & Subsequent VMAs Performance Show and Tell Why Missy Elliott Is Still Inimitable
There was a moment when the world of post-00s hip hop felt particularly dark in its decided voidness. It happened around 2005, when Missy Elliott [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Is Probably More Feminist Than Simone De Beauvoir For Debunking the Tragedian Myth of the Stripper
The notion of the stripper as slut (ergo “fallen woman”) has long been the well-established male narrative regarding the (often, believe it or not, underpaid) [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Goes (“Unintentionally”) Black Mirror for “Lover” Video
For anyone still haunted by the Christmas special of Black Mirror that aired in 2014 called “White Christmas,” Taylor Swift’s latest video for the title [Read More…]
The New York/California Schizo: Miss Lana Del Rey in “Fuck It I Love You” & “The Greatest”
For a long time, it seemed as though, like all of us (or at least those with any creative sensibility), Lana Del Rey was trying [Read More…]
Ariana Grande Carries the *NSYNC Torch Re: the Heteronormative Thrill of Repressed Desire a.k.a. the Hunt on “boyfriend”
Re-teaming with longtime directorial collaborator Hannah Lux Davis (who also brought us the scandalous for its cultural appropriativeness “7 Rings“), Ariana Grande continues to go [Read More…]
Lizzo & Missy Elliott Team To Take The Latter’s Fraught 00s Message About Body Image to the Next Level on “Tempo”
Keeping it one hundred percent real as she makes videos of herself using Tik Tok (because it isn’t a rap video until you’ve seen that [Read More…]
The Knife Emoji Manifested: Ellie Goulding’s “Hate Me”
In the epoch of screens, hatred, to an undeniably obsessive degree, is so much more convenient in the wake of a breakup. This much is [Read More…]
Who Is the Master and Who Is the Slave?: “Batuka” Video
In 2008, Madonna concluded Hard Candy with a song called, “Voices,” in which she opened with the lyric (somewhat unfortunately harmonized with Justin Timberlake), “Who [Read More…]
Pop Philosophy: The Subjective Abstractions of Perception, Echoes of “Virtual Insanity” Provide Visual Motifs for Ariana Grande’s “In My Head”
As Ariana Grande continues to infiltrate the world of high fashion on the heels of her campaign for Givenchy, a music video made especially for [Read More…]
Tove Lo’s Friendship Is So Strong, It Makes Her Phone Immune to A Dead Battery As She Pep Talks Through the Elements & An Arrest in “Glad He’s Gone”
The bond created between two women who endure endless trials and tribulations together (usually spurred by some sort of male-delivered trauma) can and should never [Read More…]
