Category: Music
ROSALÍA’s “Berghain” Brings Opera and Classical Music to the “Mainstream,” Even If No Such Thing Really Exists Anymore
In, say, 1990, when Madonna released “Vogue,” there was very much a concrete “mainstream” to bring something “underground” to. In 2025, the mainstream is all [Read More…]
The Witchiest Woman of Them All: Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream Finds Healing and Redemption in the Mystical and the Magical
Having already earned her stripes as a real witchy woman with 2022’s Dance Fever, Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch aims to take that “honorary” [Read More…]
Doja Cat Singing “Gorgeous” to Hollywood at Vogue World
If there’s one thing that Hollywood has always gotten off on—at least since the release of Sunset Boulevard in 1950—it’s holding up a funhouse mirror [Read More…]
PinkPantheress and JT Drop “Noises” Video in Time for Halloween
Considering the hyper-paranoid nature of “Noises” in its original incarnation on Fancy That, it’s no surprise that, with the addition of JT for PinkPantheress’ remix [Read More…]
Don’t Compare West End Girl to Lemonade—The Former Is Far More Scathing
As the “hot takes” on Lily Allen’s West End Girl keep coming, among the most frequent “revelations” from the internet is that the album is [Read More…]
Florence Makes Love to Mother Nature in the Rightly Occultish “Sympathy Magic” Video
As the release date—Halloween—for Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream approaches, Welch has seen fit to unleash the third single and video from the album [Read More…]
Lily Allen’s “Nonmonogamummy” Reminds That, Despite Its Increasing Acceptance and Pervasiveness, Not Everyone Is Down for Polyamory/Open Relationships
Although there is many a gut-punching track on Lily Allen’s West End Girl (all presented mostly in that signature and misleadingly “chirpy” way of hers), [Read More…]
The Deluxe Edition of MARINA’s Princess of Power Finds Her Climbing Higher and Higher into the Tower (With No Need of Being Rescued By a Prince In Order to Come Back Down)
When the standard edition of Princess of Power was released on June 6th of this year, it was just as Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s [Read More…]
The Most Thorough Breakup Album in the History of Breakup Albums: Lily Allen’s West End Girl
In what is arguably the Pet Shop Boys’ most signature song, “West End Girls,” Neil Tennant commences with the verse, “Sometimes you’re better off dead/There’s [Read More…]
Selena Gomez Releases Codependent Anthem “In the Dark” for Nobody Wants This Season 2
As the first song that Selena Gomez has released after being fresh from her marriage to Benny Blanco—with whom she recently made the joint album, [Read More…]
