Category: Music
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…]
Chvrches Posits That the Enduring “Good Girls” Trope Is A Result of Not Killing Our (Male) Idols
So much has happened since Chvrches’ last album, Love Is Dead, was released in 2018 that it feels like an entire lifetime ago. And, in [Read More…]
“Cherish” Meets “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” With A Dash of “Stars Are Blind”: J. Lo’s “Cambia El Paso” Video
Any beach-oriented video with a woman romping around in it, of course, automatically harkens back to Madonna’s 1989 “Cherish” directed by Herb Ritts. Later, Paris [Read More…]
Celebrity Sympathy Is The New Black
It wouldn’t be right to say celebrity “empathy” is the new black, for that would entail “normals” could actually put themselves in the (Louboutin) shoes [Read More…]
“NDA” Sees Billie Eilish Entering That Phase of Her Career Where Fame Is A Key Topic of Lyrical Discussion
For Madonna, it took until Ray of Light. For Britney, it took until In the Zone. With Billie Eilish, we’re only two albums into her [Read More…]
Raffaella non è la tua bambarella: On The World’s First Feminist Pop Star
Some icons are made, and others are born. Raffaella Carrà seemed to fall into the latter category. Like she was shot out of her mother’s [Read More…]
Still Trying to Compute Ed Sheeran Being A Party Boy
Beyond just being a ginger with a flavor for non-Caucasian women (as evidenced by his music videos and past trysts), Ed Sheeran conjures an easy [Read More…]
When You Go From “Good Time Boy” to “Creepy Older Guy in Club”: Ed Sheeran’s Graduation From “Shape of You” to “Bad Habits”
In the summer of 2017, “Shape of You” was as inescapable as coronavirus in 2020 (and, to be honest, even as inescapable as it is [Read More…]
Ed Sheeran Wants to Make Us Feel Pre-Pandemic Vibes With “Bad Habits”
After waiting an entire five years since “Shape of You” was the song of the summer in 2017 (alongside “Despacito”)—a single many are still trying [Read More…]
When Ace of Base Wrote A Prophecy About Britney
While some have already moved on from the revelations of Britney Spears’ June 23rd conservatorship testimony (a date that will live on in pop culture [Read More…]
