Category: Music
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…]
Unclear Why Britney Was Having An Existential Crisis About Not Being a Girl, Not Yet A Woman When It’s Obviously the Best Thing to Be
Released as a single in February of 2002, after Britney Spears had recently turned twenty, “I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman” was intended [Read More…]
Mo’ MØ, Less Problems: Forever Neverland
From 2012 to 2015, MØ was seemingly omnipresent on top forty radio (unbeknownst to most who could not detect her signature voice in the likes of [Read More…]
Christina Aguilera’s Kiss With Madonna Basically Got Fucked Over Because of Patriarchal Editing
In August of 2003, everyone was talking about a single instant that would become one of the defining moments of pop culture history: Madonna kissing [Read More…]
Anne-Marie Would Make Anyone Want to Run for the Hills From Her Codependency Issues on “Don’t Leave Me Alone”
David Guetta has long been known for creating anthemic collaborations veering on the dangerous side of being too unpalatably cheesy to listen to–yet he has, [Read More…]
Quavo Steals Lil’ Wayne’s Act on Quavo Huncho
It feels laughable to attempt to write “scholarly” sentences about an album like Quavo Huncho. Speaking “eloquently” on the debut release from Migos’ “star” only [Read More…]
That Embarrassing Moment When You’ve Written A Song Titled After Your Boyfriend & Then You Inevitably Break Up
Despite the ardency with which Ariana Grande announced of her decision to change the name of the song “Pete” on Sweetener to the even more [Read More…]
A Return to the Metric System: Art of Doubt Is Rife With the Electronic Elements
When Metric’s last album, Pagans in Vegas, came out in 2015, the band had decided to go full-tilt alt-rock as opposed to peppering their sound [Read More…]
If People Are Going To Begrudge Ariana Grande of Anything, It Should Be Her Taste in Men, Not A Music Video Featuring Solely Her Pet Pig
As it becomes increasingly evident that Pete Davidson is dead weight to the “God Is A Woman” majesty of Ariana Grande, it would seem that [Read More…]
