Category: Music
Taylor Swift Says “You Need To Calm Down,” Can’t Seem To With Her Political Shtick–And It Is a Shtick
Being political tends to come early on in one’s career if he or she is genuine about it. It happened with Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, [Read More…]
Madame X (X for Xtra Cerebral)
Madonna may have once quipped that she wanted an X rating for her Truth or Dare documentary because X meant “Xtra fun,” but Madame X [Read More…]
Joan of Arc Remains a Fitting Metaphor for How Society Treats Its “Differents” in “Dark Ballet”
Though it may seem to those who despise the notion that it is not the meek but the weirdos who shall inherit the Earth that [Read More…]
A Carnival of Horrors is the Perfect Backing Track For a Song Called “Rich, White, Straight, Men” (Yes the Comma After Straight Is Intended)
As someone who knows “a little something” about being subjugated by a rich, white, straight man, it doesn’t feel unnatural for Kesha to come up [Read More…]
The New York Times Magazine Creates a Yearning For When Someone Adequate (Like Carrie Fisher) Could Interview Madonna
As Madonna gets older (which everyone loves talking about more than her work itself), it isn’t just that it gets harder for her to “prove [Read More…]
Diplo and Charli XCX Rip Off Spice Girls, Lisa Frank for “Spicy”
As the summer single competition heats up (“Playa Grande,” “Glad He’s Gone,” the entire Miley EP and, as Katy Perry would like to believe, “Never [Read More…]
Bomba Estéreo Joins Sofi Tukker to Add to Your Summer Soundtrack on “Playa Grande”
Like a Colombian Durga levitating in the sky, Bomba Estéreo’s Li Saumet lulls us into immediate submission at the outset of the video for Sofi [Read More…]
Katy Perry Further Dilutes the Mad Men/Del Rey Version of the Cult With “Never Really Over” Video
When Mad Men ended in 2015, it was a surprisingly satisfying and well-received conclusion to the emotional roller coaster of rooting for Don Draper (Jon [Read More…]
Maluma: A 21st Century Response to Ricky Martin
Of course, to reduce Maluma merely to a twenty-first century progression of Ricky Martin might be marked under the offensive category of somehow “confusing” the [Read More…]
She Is Coming (And So Will You Over Miley Cyrus’ New EP)
Starting with the matriarchy-oriented “Mother’s Daughter,” Miley Cyrus establishes She Is Coming as her most declaratively “feminist as fuck” album yet. Though it’s not so [Read More…]
