Category: Music
Gwen Stefani’s “Cool” Is Predicated on A False Concept
Some may argue that Gwen Stefani completely lost all of her edge when she traded in Gavin Rossdale for Blake Shelton, inexplicably People‘s Sexiest Man [Read More…]
Pet Shop Boys’ “Leaving” Speaks to A Perpetual Haunting by L’Amour Mort
The Pet Shop Boys release albums at a rate almost as impressive as Rihanna, and yet, for some reason, only their niche audience seems to [Read More…]
Blackout & Its Relationship to the Tabloid Culture of the 00s
In 2007, Britney Spears was having a bit of a downward spiral. And for the first time in pop culture history, the media was not [Read More…]
Whether The NFL Admits It Or Not, There Is A Double Standard to Not Extending An Invitation to Janet Jackson to Perform at the Halftime Show
When Justin Timberlake takes the stage for the 2018 Super Bowl Halftime Show, it will have been fourteen years since the notorious nipplegate event that [Read More…]
The Year Madonna Forced the U.S. To Face Their Sexual Taboos
It isn’t to say that Madonna wasn’t (and isn’t) constantly challenging the world with her in your face sexuality. From the moment she released her [Read More…]
The Lana Del Rey/Harvey Weinstein Revelation Accents a Larger Truth About the Singer
For someone as nonplussed by the buzzing of mouths as Lana Del Rey, it certainly seems that the less she responds, the more people want [Read More…]
What Message of Positivity Could Actually Come Out of An Amy Winehouse Musical?
Though it’s been over six years since Amy Winehouse joined the twenty-seven club, for some reason certain parties–particularly her own father–can’t seem to let the [Read More…]
The Cultural Impact of Selena’s Debut Album
Before it was Capitol Latin, EMI Latin’s founding in 1989 heralded not so much a change in music, as an acknowledgement of the artistic and [Read More…]
My Loneliness Is Killing Me (No, Really)
Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” might have been written off as “a little tween ditty” when it was first released–with Spears herself regarded as [Read More…]
Better Off Dead: “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” & What It Says About Projecting Expectations Onto A Lover
Maybe there’s something to the necrophiliac’s fetish for the corpse. Of course, like all things perverse, this predilection tends to be most commonly found in [Read More…]
