Category: Music
Before Totally Dismantling the White Man, The White Woman Gets Her “Due” As Well: Kanye West, LDR & Azealia Banks
As the escalation and intensity highlighting the vast rift in the extremes of the American mentality–divided into, if we’re being as reductive as possible, somewhat [Read More…]
St. Vincent’s Constant Revisiting of “Slow Disco” As Symbol of How Artists Can Only Try to Get It Right Outside of Life
Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly love St. Vincent’s torrid (as rendered by her video for it) “Fast Slow Disco” even more, she goes [Read More…]
The Not So Subtle Message of The Shangri-Las: Parents Are to Blame
At a time when heteronormative “love”–or, more to the point, the oversaturated propaganda about all the benefits of such a nonexistent thing–was at its peak, [Read More…]
The Awkwardness of Being A Feminist When Someone You’ve Worked With Turns Out to Be A Predator
The precedent for women declaring themselves as feminists yet still going ahead and working with known sexual predators was most glaringly set in recent years [Read More…]
Madonna’s Railing Letter Commenting on David Letterman Apprearance Up for Auction Holds Truer Than Ever
With no shortage of scandals to look back upon in her career by the mid-90s, Madonna wasn’t content to simply lie down and roll over [Read More…]
We Are All Venice Bitches Thanks to A Song That Manages to Be Even More Nostalgic for A Time Past Than “Summertime Sadness”
If anyone knows the value of nostalgia, of how it can still cut to the quick of what’s left of human emotions, it is Lana [Read More…]
“I Will Follow Him” As Every Man’s Worst Nightmare of Devotion
In the particular decades of the twentieth century that ranged from the 1940s to the 1960s, emphasis on a girl being devoted to her man [Read More…]
“GTFO” Is Mariah Carey’s “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay”
While James Packer might not have been cheating on Mariah Carey at the time their engagement disintegrated at the end of 2016 (in fact, it [Read More…]
Ariana Grande’s “Better Off” Is Extremely Awkward to Listen to Now
With the music world in shock over the death of Mac Miller due to (a somewhat inevitable) overdose (something Demi Lovato has continued to succeed [Read More…]
Anything Cardi Did Solange Did Better
The altercation between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj (instigated by the former) that occurred at the Harper’s Bazaar ICONS party in honor of New York Fashion [Read More…]
