Category: Music
Everyone Is So Literal, Or: Britney Spears Rendered As Cleopatra
As recently complained about by Madonna via one of her Instagram stories, “Everyone is so literal.” This, however, is something she’s spoken out about for [Read More…]
“Django Jane” Makes Beyoncé’s Feminism Look Especially Flimsy
Released in conjunction with the Prince-saturated “Make Me Feel,” “Django Jane” and its video offers something of a more “militant” tone than its companion single, [Read More…]
Janelle Monáe Takes “Fluidity” Where Prince and Michael Jackson Couldn’t
Like the lovechild of Prince (the riff to “Kiss” most definitely comes to mind), Michael Jackson (you can’t say “The Way You Make Me Feel” [Read More…]
“Drowned World/Substitute For Love” & “Mer Girl”: Two Perfect Bookends on an Indelible Album
Because it is the twentieth anniversary of an album consistently ranked as being among one of the greatest of all-time–and possibly the very best in [Read More…]
Belgium and “Frozen” Tango Again: Loena Hendrickx Pays A Very Literal Homage–Just in Time for the Ray of Light Anniversary
While someone Loena Hendrickx’s tender age of eighteen more likely relates to the term “Frozen” in pop culture pertaining to the Disney animated film, the Belgian [Read More…]
How Rihanna Crept Into Music As A Pop Princess Before Snapping Her Fingers & Becoming @badgalriri
While “Pon De Replay” might have been one of the summer anthems of 2005, it was the sort of Sean Paul-reminiscent track that could have [Read More…]
National Anthem: The Politicism of Lana Del Rey Before Lust for Life
Lana Del Rey has generally been regarded as an artist that was not very political in her work up to 2017’s Lust for Life, an [Read More…]
If Lana Del Rey Can Put A Car Into Space, So Can Elon Musk
In 2015, on the day of Lana Del Rey’s “High by the Beach” single release, an interview detailing her passion for the work of Elon [Read More…]
The Selling of a Myth That Can No Longer Be Bought: The 2001 Britney Spears Pepsi Commercial & Justin Timberlake Reemerging in the Present
With Justin Timberlake set to perform at this year’s fifty-second Super Bowl, the usual unquenchable thoughts of his long ago defunct relationship with Britney Spears [Read More…]
Leave Tony Bennett Alone
The internet, always the ideal tableau to find oneself amid vitriol at the drop of a hat, has taken aim at Tony Bennett in the [Read More…]
