Category: Music
Amy Winehouse Flickers In and Out on Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever
A full year after the unleashing of the first single from Happier Than Ever, “my future,” was released on July 30, 2020, we now have [Read More…]
Get Some (Semi-Free) Therapy from Anne-Marie
Three years after the release of her debut, Speak Your Mind, Anne-Marie’s sophomore follow-up, Therapy, has been well worth the wait. And, considering Anne-Marie already [Read More…]
“EveryTime I Cry” is Ava Max’s “Rain on Me”
Because sad dance anthems have been the way of summer ever since Reich & Bleich remixed Lana Del Rey in 2012, Ava Max continues the [Read More…]
Lady’s Gaga’s “Telephone” Redux, Or: Arrest That Man!… For Making Gay Men Want to Do Crime So They Can Go to Prison and Take Homoerotic Showers
More than anything about Lil Nas X’s latest foray into “creating controversy” simply by being himself in the video for “Industry Baby,” it’s most interesting [Read More…]
Bella Poarch: A “Hot Girl” Making Claims of Not Conforming to Cliché Male Expectations of Beauty
Bella Poarch’s runaway hit, “Build-a-Bitch,” might possess a theoretically positive and empowered message about how women shouldn’t yield to the pressures constantly put upon them [Read More…]
The “Save Your Tears Remix” Video Directly Negates the Same Premise Presented in “Build-a-Bitch”
Bella Poarch may have risen so fast to stardom that she didn’t quite have time to check on a more original idea for the video [Read More…]
“A perfect storm of sex kitten, raw talent and poor impulse control”: Amy Winehouse Was Given the Britney Treatment in the UK
Although L.A. is its own microcosm of paparazzi constantly trolling for the next humiliating candid photo, the UK (which just looks better without periods between [Read More…]
Stoned at the Nail Salon: Lorde’s “Way Existential” Rumination on “Aging”
Not taking a page from the pop star handbook that insists “produce, produce, produce” and “always stay in the spotlight lest they forget you” that [Read More…]
Where Shakira and Lana Del Rey Collide: “Don’t Wait Up”
As a song, “Don’t Wait Up” is fairly innocuous, and certainly doesn’t compare to Shakira’s previous single (with Black Eyed Peas), “Girl Like Me.” Yet [Read More…]
WAP 2.0: Tanu Muino Shows Off her Own “Wild Side” in Normani and Cardi B’s Collaboration Together
Making a brief foray into the mainstream in 2019 with the mostly lackluster “Small Talk” video for Katy Perry (though, to be fair, it was [Read More…]