Category: Music
1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back: Olivia Rodrigo’s “take me home (4 christmas)”
On the heels of releasing both You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love and her The Handmaid’s Tale-themed “Serena Joy,” Olivia Rodrigo’s [Read More…]
The “Like a Virgin” Sensibilities of “…Baby One More Time”
As far as many were concerned, Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” might as well have been her debut single. For that’s the one that truly “invented” [Read More…]
Lola Leon Continues to Carve Out Her Own Unique Voice with “Tramp Stamp”
Considering that it’s all but impossible for any child of Madonna’s to ever fully emerge from her towering shadow, Lourdes “Lola” Leon has done a [Read More…]
Gracie Abrams’ “Here You Come, There You Go” as Carrie and Big’s Theme Song
In what has been an ostensible “jag” of emulating Taylor Swift behavior (namely, being all “white girl whimsical” for her Halloween performance on Saturday Night [Read More…]
Gracie Abrams’ SNL Performance: In Truth, More of an Homage to Taylor Swift Than Romeo + Juliet
Being among Taylor Swift’s “protégées” (which the likes of Olivia Rodrigo also once proudly declared being), it should come as no surprise that Gracie Abrams [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s 2026 “It’s Time!”Announcement Is Riddled With Irony
What makes Mariah Carey’s now annual “It’s time!” announcement so different this year isn’t just how much she’s leaning fully into the short-lived Chick era [Read More…]
Zach Bryan and Lana Del Rey’s “Lies” Flaunts Tinges of Taylor Swift and Bon Iver’s “Exile” and Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie”
As Lana Del Rey continues to release anything but her much talked-about tenth album, Stove (and now, its companion, Spyda), she instead keeps adding to [Read More…]
The Years Later Release of Kesha’s “Backstabber” Video is a Glimpse Into the Very Lifestyle She Speaks on Throughout Her Animal/Cannibal Era
About four days before Kesha unleashed the “Backstabber” video from the proverbial vault, she began teasing some of its lyrics in captions underneath “sassy” photos [Read More…]
A Casual Contempt for Being Artistically Underlooked: Allie X’s “You Slept on Me” and Tinashe’s “Melatonin”
Perhaps, as an artist, the only thing more vexing than becoming famous after you’re dead is finding yourself perennially in the “bubbling under” category. For [Read More…]
Allie X’s “Midnight for the Masses”: A Lament for the Collective Desire to Self-Numb
Continuing to channel some residual “Infant Marie energy” from 2025’s Happiness Is Going to Get You, Allie X has offered up her first single/new music [Read More…]
