Category: Music
Olivia Rodrigo Oughta Know to Add Alanis Morissette to the “good 4 u” Songwriting Credits As Well
“All I did was try my best, this the kinda thanks I get,” Olivia Rodrigo now famously bemoans on, “brutal,” the opening track to Sour. [Read More…]
The Madonna/Janet Argument Is One of False Equivalence, But Since We Must Once Again Compare…
If one were going to make the claim of who the Queen of Pop was, the obvious answer is Madonna. It’s not a subjectivity or [Read More…]
Halsey and Madonna: Examining the Context of Two “I’m A Mother Now” Albums
Arguably the pioneer of the “rebirth” album by way of giving literal birth, Madonna’s seminal 1998 masterpiece, Ray of Light, signaled a new genre in [Read More…]
Halsey Does Billie Eilish One Better On If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Unlike, say, Cardi B, who also experienced (and is experiencing) a “young” “with child” phase, Halsey opted to really say something (apart from, you know, [Read More…]
Kim Petras Claims “Future Starts Now” While Relying on Stale Visuals of the Past to Elucidate Everyone’s Parisian Fantasy
Although the video itself has yet to arrive, Kim Petras has provided us with a “visualizer” (the latest trend that seems somehow superfluous when people [Read More…]
“Parlor Walls” Foretold of CHVRCHES’ Screen Violence
The cover for CHVRCHES’ fourth album, Screen Violence, is literal in one way and yet utterly metaphorical in another. The image of a hand grabbing [Read More…]
Finally A Tribute Album Worthy of Madonna’s Musical Prowess
Of course, there have been many Madonna tribute albums in the past. From Virgin Voices to Through the Wilderness (which featured Ariel Pink’s version of [Read More…]
Lorde Sells a “Non-Product” to “Help” the Environment, Not Seeming to Realize How Indicative That is of Our Current Problem
In a new tradition of trying to “make things better” by still working within the very system that makes it all so terrible, Lorde has [Read More…]
Olivia Rodrigo’s “brutal” Video Reminds That Capitalism Creates the Conditions in Which Nothing Can Ever Be New
Early on in her still germinal career, Olivia Rodrigo was accused of copying, well, quite a few people. The pastiche overload this “Gen Z representative” [Read More…]
Walden Transcends Into “Lorden”: Solar Power
With its dreamy, drugged out opening, “The Path,” Lorde makes it clear that she is on a very Lana Del Rey path (paved in part [Read More…]