Category: Music Videos
“White Mustang”: “Burning Up” Meets “Deeper and Deeper”
Because to be famous in the twenty-first century is to release little “teases” of your work on social media, most knew what to expect from [Read More…]
Self-Deprecation Looks Better Than It Sounds: Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” Video
“Look What You Made Me Do” is a pile of shit of a song. Worse yet, it’s not even an original pile of shit song, [Read More…]
The 2017 VMAs: An Exhibition of the Enfeebled State of Music
It’s not that you’re getting older (okay, yes, you are). It’s that music has genuinely gotten worse over time. For those who used to watch [Read More…]
Katy Perry Might Have Done Better Not to Release A Video for “Swish Swish”
Billed as being the most “unwatchable, eye-gouging blowout of the season,” the game that the sports commentators, Bill Walton and Rich Eisen, in the opening [Read More…]
Kesha Goes Hippie Dippy Kabbalist for “Praying”
“Am I dead? Or is this one of those dreams?” The opening to Kesha’s latest video for the single, “Praying”–the first official release since 2016’s [Read More…]
“Papa Don’t Preach” Speaks to the Complexity of the Father-Daughter Relationship
Quite possibly more than any other piece of pop culture, musically speaking, Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach” speaks to just how intense and often contentious the [Read More…]
Selena Gomez’s “Bad Liar” Video Channels Lameness In Its Shock Value
Selena Gomez has probably “shocked” more expertly with other music videos of hers in the past, like the Alek Keshishian-directed “Hands to Myself” or even [Read More…]
2D’s Brain on Drugs Showcased in “Sleeping Powder” Video
2D may have been kidnapped into Gorillaz, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t liable to break out on his own musical stylings upon occasion–a new [Read More…]
Vintage Sci-Fi Meets Doo-Wop Video in “Lust for Life”
As the trailer for the Lust for Life album already indicated, Lana Del Rey’s continued obsession–or rather, muse–remains the 60s and Los Angeles. And now, [Read More…]
How the “Black Hole Sun” Video Shaped Many Suburban Escapees’ Drive to Leave
The genre that gave us Soundgarden was unique to the 90s. That mournful, yet almost sultry tone of Chris Cornell being the norm for other bands [Read More…]
