Category: Music
The Process and Inspiration Behind “Looking For America” Echoes “Coachella-Woodstock In My Mind”
On the weekend of April 15-16 in 2017, the strange festival-turned-Instagram “influencer’s” wet dream that is Coachella found Lana Del Rey among the ranks of [Read More…]
Tove Lo Posits That Women Are Just As Assholic in Matters of Love in “Bad As The Boys”
Like an 80s bop brought to life (something like a mutant baby of Rick Springfield and Sheena Easton), Tove Lo’s “Bad As The Boys,” the [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…]
Subverting Pastiche: Some Takeaways From the Norman Fucking Rockwell Album Cover
As Lana Del Rey stans proceed to attempt picking the wigs that were snatched up off the floor after getting an official release date and [Read More…]
Billie Eilish As the 21st Century Ideal of a Sexless Pop Star
At this point, it’s fairly patent that every generation that succeeds the millennial one (at the current moment, Gen Z) has learned, or will learn, [Read More…]
For Those Still Sad Still Sexy, Lykke Li Feels You
Unlike that time when St. Vincent “stripped down” MASSEDUCTION to create 2018’s acoustic monstrosity, MassEducation, Lykke Li has approached her reworkings of select offerings from [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…]
Patrick Leonard: A Ride or Die Producer
As the auction block of Madonna’s personal items continues to be underway thanks to the rather backstabbing former art advisor Darlene Lutz’ selling of personal [Read More…]
Move Over Robin Hood, Taylor Swift Hits The Emotionalism Target: “The Archer”
After a more than hackneyed attempt at being an LGBTQ ally by trying to reduce right-wing hate with the simple (and somehow more anger-inducing) “request,” [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…]
