Finally Off Her Ex-Label’s Leash, Sky Ferreira Releases Moody, Masochistic “Leash” for the Babygirl Soundtrack

Maybe there was something kismet about Sky Ferreira ending up on the soundtrack for a movie directed by Halina Reijn. Not just because that movie [Read More…]

Twin Songs in the Britney Canon: “Don’t Go Knockin’ on My Door” and “Lonely”

Although Britney Spears’ musical canon is filled with recurring motifs (packed with use of the epithet “baby”), perhaps the most “twin-like” songs in her oeuvre [Read More…]

It Was Easier to (Sort of) Believe in the Defiant Optimism of a Song Like Lana Del Rey’s “When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing” in 2017

2017 marked the first year that Lana Del Rey actually “deigned” to get political in her music. And yes, it took fellow quintessential white female [Read More…]