Category: Music
FKA Twigs’ “Love Crimes” Video Shows Off a 90s Influence with Aesthetics That Recall The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and, Of Course, Madonna
On a seemingly unstoppable mission to create visuals for her songs with Jordan Hemingway, the latest video from FKA Twigs is “Love Crimes,” the first [Read More…]
The Tone of Tate McRae’s So Close to What Takes on a New Slant with the Addition of Five Songs to the Deluxe Edition, So Close to What???
While the original overarching tone of Tate McRae’s third album, So Close to What, was largely one of amorousness and, well, being “Miss Possessive” when [Read More…]
With Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter, Madonna Highlights an Era of Intense Artistic Growth Spurred by Intense Artistic Scrutiny
On October 25, 1994, almost exactly two years after Madonna released Erotica, and with it, a backlash against her like never before, she reemerged with [Read More…]
If You Need a Hit, Robyn’s Gonna Give You It With “Dopamine”
Well before Lily Allen and Lorde were disappearing from music for long stretches of time (though the latter never extends her absence past four years), [Read More…]
Udo Kier’s “Mainstream” Pinnacle: Madonna’s “Deeper and Deeper” Video
Having appeared in movies with titles like Life is Too Long and Swan Song, it was always apparent that Udo Kier didn’t tremble in the [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Returns to Herb Ritts Aesthetics for “Hard” Video
In 2022, FKA Twigs released a standalone single called “Killer.” It was about three years after her abusive relationship with Shia LaBeouf had ended. Though [Read More…]
The “Dopamine Doula” Is Back: Ke$ha’s Animal + Cannibal Fifteenth Anniversary Reissue
In 2010, a seminal voice of a generation emerged. No, it wasn’t motherfucking Lena Dunham, but Kesha Rose Sebert. Better known as her then stylized [Read More…]
Tate McRae’s “Nobody’s Girl” Builds on the “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” Motif
Although a natural continuation of her wrathful “Tit For Tat,” the latest single from Tate McRae, “Nobody’s Girl,” is also a timely “companion piece” to [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Would Like to Remind That She, Too, is a 365 Party Girl with Eusexua Afterglow
There are few musicians with the ability to release two albums in the span of a year (Taylor Swift having once shown such prowess in [Read More…]
Love Is Invisibly Abusive in Charli XCX’s Billie Eilish-esque Video for “Chains of Love”
Though Charli XCX is, of course, a music video innovator in her own right (see: “Beg For You,” “Hot In It” and “360”), it doesn’t [Read More…]
