Category: Music
Love Is Dead, But Passion is Not on the Latest CHVRCHES Album
While some are saying that in addition to the declaration, Love Is Dead, so, too, is the original talent of CHVRCHES, there is something extremely [Read More…]
Lykke Li’s “Utopia” Video Uses the Nostalgia of Home Movies For A Different Effect Than Kesha’s “Learn to Let Go”
Released in time for Mother’s Day, Lykke Li’s vastly divergent from the iPhone-centric video for “Deep End,” “Utopia,” finds her reminiscing about her recently deceased [Read More…]
It’s Not Easy To Receive An Indirect Birthday Message That You’re Shite: Morrissey and Sparks
Sparks, the 70s-originating band consisting of brother duo Russell and Ron Mael, has long been fetishized and adored by Morrissey, unwavering in his devotion to [Read More…]
All Weddings Should Be Funerals: Cardi B’s Video for “Be Careful” Replicates Kill Bill/Jhené Aiko Motifs
Despite Cardi B deleting her Instagram account after Azealia Banks called her “a caricature of a black woman,” she came back on the social media [Read More…]
Lykke Li’s Video For “Deep End” Is A Less Vain Version of the Vertical Video for Nicki Minaj’s “Chun-Li” (& A Telling Pattern in Music Videos of iPhone Filming)
With the upcoming release of Lykke Li’s fourth album, the sign of the times entitled So Sad So Sexy, the requisite music video promotion of [Read More…]
It Took A Minute, But Nicki Minaj’s “Chun-Li” Finally Gets Lambasted As Cultural Appropriation As A Result of Her SNL Performance
Barring the fact that Chun-Li is a street fighting character that Nicki Minaj has of late chosen to adopt in sort of the same way [Read More…]
Uffie’s New Song “Drugs” Follows A Lily Allen Path of Lyrical Evolution
In terms of mid-00s gems we thought we’d lost forever (including Lady Sovereign), Uffie was at the top of the list until about a week [Read More…]
The Musical Upheaval Behind Reggie Lucas’ Production of Madonna’s Self-Titled Debut
In 1982, Madonna had achieved what so many who once came to New York City dreamed of: local fame in the vein of the symbolists [Read More…]
“Girls” Is Neither A Fitting Homage to “Lady Marmalade” Nor Genuine In Its Fair-weather Bisexuality
Long ago, during a time when George W. Bush was coming to the twilight of his presidency and presumably thinking about, well, not much of [Read More…]
Lana Bramlette As Madonna’s New Maripol
Anyone familiar with Madonna’s trademark look of the early and mid-80s, all drenched with rubber bracelets and crucifixes as it was is also unwittingly familiar [Read More…]
