Category: Music
A Lust (and Big Butt) Flare-Up Plagues Zara Larsson in the “Crush” Video
Following the success of Zara Larsson’s eponymous second single (with its 00s/Madonna in the “Love Profusion” video aesthetics) from Midnight Sun, she’s continuing to drum up interest [Read More…]
War of the Denim Brands Trying to Play Up the 2000s (a More Marked Time of White Supremacy BTW) Instead of “Great Jeans”
Ever since Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle got it so wrong with their jeans ad, it’s been a free-for-all of shade-throwing on the ad campaign [Read More…]
Cardi B Trolls the “Imaginary Playerz” in Her Latest Pro-Opulence Single Sampling Jay-Z
Following the release of what Cardi B had hoped would be a “summer anthem,” “Outside” (an overt diss at her ex-husband, Offset), she’s trying her [Read More…]
Cinderella’s Got to Go: With A Matter of Time, The Clock Strikes Midnight as Laufey Steps Even Further Into Her Own Musical Skin
Nothing about Laufey’s musical journey has been conventional. Perhaps the biggest example of that was becoming an “overnight” sensation during the pandemic while posting videos [Read More…]
Doja Cat Is An 80s Music Video Girl in “Jealous Type”
Like Charli XCX with her 2022 video for “Baby,” Doja Cat has been very inspired by the visual cachet of 1980s aesthetics for her new era. [Read More…]
With “Everybody Scream,” It’s Clear that Florence + the Machine Isn’t Done With the World of Dance Fever
It’s been three years since Florence + the Machine released arguably their best album to date, Dance Fever. In that time, Florence Welch embarked on the Dance [Read More…]
Lola Young, Too, Would Like to Say, In Essence, “Please Don’t Try to Find Me Through My ‘D£aler’”
If any chanteuse (still living, at least) can identify with the struggles of addiction, it’s Lana Del Rey. After all, her teenage alcoholism is part [Read More…]
When It Comes to Her Father-Daughter Dynamic, It’s Just as Madonna Once Said: “Life Is a Circle”
There was a time in Madonna’s life when it probably would have been unfathomable (mostly for Madonna herself) to imagine having a close relationship with [Read More…]
PinkPantheress’ Gambit: The “Romeo” Video
The success of PinkPantheress’ nine-track mixtape, Fancy That, continues with yet another video from one of the songs on the album, “Romeo.” A mid-tempo ditty that [Read More…]
Olivia Rodrigo Saying Fame Was Essentially Democratized Enough to Include a Certain Lyric on “Vampire” Applies to Addison Rae’s “Fame Is a Gun”
Although Olivia Rodrigo is about three years younger than Addison Rae, it’s still fair to say that she was the one who walked so that [Read More…]
