Category: Music
Singing Teen Girl Lyrics Thirteen Years On & Ironically Getting More Agency Out of It: Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
One wonders at times if there were several moments when Taylor Swift might have cringed throughout the re-recording of her 2008 sophomore album, Fearless. The [Read More…]
It Takes Two (Doja Cat and SZA) to Try to Fill the “Oops!…I Did It Again” Void
In another case of people perhaps assuming that once enough time passes in the pop culture realm, it opens up a free-for-all opportunity to copy [Read More…]
Were You That Special, Or Just Another Type To Fit The Mold?: Olivia Rodrigo’s “deja vu”
Sticking to a theme that launched her into a Taylor Swift-like echelon in terms of exuding a Crowned Singer-Songwriter of Pop vibe, Olivia Rodrigo has [Read More…]
“My face is the real shop front”: Pepsi and Nike, Madonna and Lil Nas X
Not to make everything about Madonna (it simply is) in terms of her controversy parallels with Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” [Read More…]
Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” Video Setting A Precedent for Something Like “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
In one of the many Instagram “vignettes” posted in late Summer 2020 of Madonna’s screenwriting workshops with Diablo Cody, there is a moment where she [Read More…]
There’s A Place For Armie Hammer in Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” Video
While some (read: conservatives) have been most “shocked” of all by the visual of Lil Nas X giving Satan a lap dance in the video [Read More…]
A New Jenny to Obsess Over Post-867-5309
Despite Studio Killers’ track, “Jenny,” being released in 2013, its need for revitalization has been made manifest via Kim Petras’ presence on the song. Giving [Read More…]
Jhené Aiko Reminds Us She’s Sailing NOT Selling With Sailing Soul(s) Reissue
Pulling a Blood Orange (à la Angel’s Pulse) by deciding to call Sailing Soul(s) a mixtape rather than an album, Jhené Aiko gives us a [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey’s “Shades of Cool” As Police Officer Lullaby
While Lana Del Rey may have moved on from a darker side of her “Americana-loving” phase—that is to say, dating a cop—that aspect of herself [Read More…]
Youth Desert: Yearning For Carefree Simplicity in the “White Dress” Video
Since to set the story of the music video for “White Dress” inside of a diner (think Twin Peaks’ Double R) as Lizzy Grant dreamily [Read More…]
