Category: Music
Off-Limits Aesthetics: J. Lo Tries to Do Madonna’s Style of Performative Catholicism with “Church”
There are some pop culture moments that should be left off limits in terms of “borrowing” or “paying homage.” Not only because they’re sacrosanct, but [Read More…]
Caricaturizing Kesha: Kim Petras Enlists Dr. Luke to Co-Write and Produce the Ultimately Damaging Slut Pop
While not exactly a “cultural reset”—the phrase that gets thrown about so freely for just about everything—Kim Petras’ seven-track EP, Slut Pop, does something that [Read More…]
Sean Penn Continues to be Madonna’s Most Embarrassing Ex After His Comments on Masculinity
Being a gay icon, part of the reason for Madonna’s status as such also stems from her flavor for overly butch men (so “butch” to [Read More…]
FKA Twigs’ “Jealousy” Reminds That Black British Culture in Music Is Rarely As Celebrated As It Should Be
There is so often talk of the “Black experience” in America, yet, in certain regards, one has to wonder if that experience isn’t even more [Read More…]
Even Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama Have to Beg These Days (Just Not For Money)
While Thelma Houston might once have been the queen of saying, “Don’t leave me this way,” Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama are now throwing their [Read More…]
No More “Bette Davis Eyes,” No More “Private Eyes”—It’s All About “Shinigami Eyes” Now
Commencing with a scene that makes it look like she’s in an AI version of Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell,” Grimes ramps up her “metaverse” [Read More…]
On Born to Die’s Tenth Anniversary, Let Us Reflect Upon How the Album Would Fare Today, Plus the “We All Died in 2012” Theory
The accelerated pace at which society has altered in the years since one, Lana Del Rey, released her debut album, Born to Die, is almost [Read More…]
GAYLE Channels Lindsay Lohan’s Freaky Friday Character in “ur just horny”
As the only one left in the 2006 car trio (a.k.a. “the summit” that defined a decade) to never really get “justice” after the way [Read More…]
Euphoria Keeps the Earworms Coming With Tove Lo’s “How Long”
Still leaving fans of the show reeling from last week’s episode featuring a new song from Lana Del Rey, called “Watercolor Eyes,” Euphoria isn’t letting [Read More…]
Now Taylor and Adele Have Even More in Common: Being Disappointed by Damon Albarn
Although Taylor Swift might have genuinely believed she had become something of an honorary Briton (though, really, who would want to be?), Damon Albarn served [Read More…]
