Category: Music
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…]
Lorde Didn’t Get the Memo: Britney Already Has A Song Called “Mood Ring” (And It’s Better)
Apparently there’s a new trend afoot where post-00s “icons” steal titles from bona fide 00s icons. For, on the heels of Lizzo and Cardi B [Read More…]
New Madonna Is Better Than Old Madonna
There is a joke made in season one of Flack when addict/publicist Robyn (Anna Paquin) is trying to come up with ways to make her [Read More…]
TBH, Lindsay Lohan’s “Rumors” Is Better & So Is Watching Hercules: On Lizzo and Cardi B’s Collaboration
The hype surrounding a collaboration between Lizzo and Cardi B has been building since the initial social media tease earlier this month. And, like the [Read More…]
(As)Phyx(iate) You: Dennis Hopper Wants His Blue Velvet Act Back in The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath”
Not wanting to full-on steal the title from Berlin’s signature 80s classic, The Weeknd’s latest single is called “Take My Breath” instead of “Take My [Read More…]
Bridgerton Shit: Pop Smoke and Dua Lipa’s “Demeanor” Video
Primping in the mirror, as a courtier (or Britney Spears in the “Circus” video) does, Dua Lipa establishes the intended—if not necessarily achieved—illicit tone of [Read More…]
Who’s Peur des Filles?
“Not so long ago in a manaxy not so far away,” begins the “Peur des Filles” video from L’Impératrice that serves as a “short film” [Read More…]
“Happier Than Ever” As A Combination of “drivers license” and “good 4 u”
As Billie Eilish’s sole peer at the moment (though we can count Griff, one supposes), it’s difficult to know if Olivia Rodrigo was influenced by [Read More…]
