Category: Music
Miley Summons the Spirit of Britney’s “Gimme More” for “Bass Persuades”
It’s no secret that Miley Cyrus is a long-time Britney Spears fan. This much immortalized on 2009’s “Party in the U.S.A.,” when she’s comforted by [Read More…]
Nessa Barrett’s “Bad Girls Never Die”: Like If AI Was Prompted to Create a Lana Del Rey Song
With a title that reads like an automatic response to the finale scene from “Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die,” Nessa Barrett’s “Bad [Read More…]
Nessa Barrett Unleashes More Lana Del Rey Cosplay for “Too Fast Too Live, Too Young Too Die”
The phrase, “Live fast, die young” has been kicking around since at least 1947, with the publication of Willard Motley’s novel, Knock On Any Door. [Read More…]
The Unwitting Way that Adéla’s “Ain’t in LA” Is Actually Complimentary to the City It Insults
Oftentimes (and particularly in this era), predicting what song is going to “take” with the masses in a major way is like a game of [Read More…]
Angèle Combines the Aesthetics of Charli XCX with M. C. Escher for “Une Seule Vie” Video
Following the unveiling of the M. C. Escher-inspired album artwork for her third record, Instinct, Angèle wasted no time in releasing a third single (following [Read More…]
Strange As It May Be, Dolly Parton Was the Great Unifier in American Culture
Perhaps because she’s been a fixture in pop culture for so long, it seems unfathomable that Dolly Parton could really be gone. This despite the [Read More…]
Olivia Rodrigo Calls Out the “Serena Joy” Women of the World with Latest Single
It was Madeleine Albright who said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” Yet it was Taylor Swift who became associated with that aphorism in [Read More…]
The Cure and The Smashing Pumpkins Continue to Flex their Influence, This Time on Paris Jackson’s “Happiest Day of My Life”
Following Paris Jackson’s first video from Happiest Day of My Life, “Zombies in Love,” her next “visual representation” of the album is the title track [Read More…]
Chosen Family (and Paris) Gets Its Close-Up in Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Motivation” Video
As the locomotion leading up to the release of Day and Night continues, Carly Rae Jepsen keeps the singles and videos coming. And her latest, [Read More…]
Shygirl’s “Alyse” Pulls from The Prodigy for Sonic Inspiration and Certain Late 90s Gangster Movies for Its Video
The Shygirl drought has been going strong in 2026—until now. With the release of a new single called “Alyse,” the shy girl known in real [Read More…]
