Category: Music
“This Used To Be My Playground” Thought Wistfulness Was Worth Getting Drunk On Before You Did
Before Charli XCX with “1999” or, ahem, Bowling for Soup with “1985,” there was Madonna lusting after the past and all the wonderful ways to [Read More…]
Cloudy With A Chance of Alcoholism and Anxiety: Ariana Grande’s “Breathin'” Video
After everyone was so “upset” over Ariana Grande releasing a sort of placeholder video for “Breathin’” starring her pet pig, Piggy Smalls, fans and detractors [Read More…]
First Wives Club, “Like A Virgin” (& A Dash of I Love Lucy) Infuse Ariana Grande’s First Live Performance of “thank u, next”
Every great performer is bound to fall metaphorically at times. Other times, however, that fall is literal–just ask Madonna, who barely lived down that infamous [Read More…]
The Phenomenon of Becoming Strangers Post-Intimacy in The xx’s “Sunset”
There is no phenomenon–no matter what anyone says–that could possibly be stranger than becoming a stranger…to the person you were once closest in the world [Read More…]
“thank u, next” is a Celebration of the 21st Century Phenomenon Finding Its Way to More “Straight” Women Than Ever: Sologamy
Being that no one believes in the concept of “straight” in the post-twentieth century apocalypse we’ve chosen to ignore is happening, there can be no [Read More…]
Choosing Dick Will Result in (Still Further) Regret: Clean Bandit, Marina and Luis Fonsi’s “Baby”
Though Generation Z would be remiss to remember a time in which it wasn’t chic to make declarations of being fluid (something Miranda Hobbes would [Read More…]
An Apple Tree of Censorship Grows in Brooklyn
Lana Del Rey, despite the success that has mounted and therefore augmented her clout with finagling potential endorsement deals over the years (still unclear why [Read More…]
Robyn Brings Sweet “Honey” to An Otherwise Bitter Season
The obsession with Robyn has only mounted in the years since her last release, Body Talk, all the way back in 2010 (maybe the last [Read More…]
Seduction is Better Than Education–At Least When It Comes to St. Vincent’s MASSes
Not everyone has the courage to release the same album in a different way (in fact, maybe the closest excuse a musician ever got was [Read More…]
“We’re Gonna Have A Nice Family Dinner”: Clueless & The Highlight on a Moment of Peak White Suburban Repression
Dan Hedaya has played many parts in his decade-spanning career, among the most important being Richard Nixon in Dick, but his most valuable of all [Read More…]
