Category: Pop Culture
After Descriptions of Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez’s Wedding, One Yearns For the Dramatic Days of Madonna and Sean Penn in Malibu
With the recent description Ariana Grande’s “low-key” (a polite term for basic and unremarkable) wedding to Dalton Gomez publicized during the week after the event [Read More…]
Lo Siento J. Lo, Selena: The Series Is Better Than Selena
For many reasons, Selena feels—particularly at this moment in time—like a rushed project. Pushed out at an extremely breakneck pace (considering the way the film [Read More…]
Saturday Night Live Reached Many Lows with Elon Musk as Host but Nothing Quite as Affronting as the Super Mario Bros. Sketch
One would think that with “the landscape” being what it is that, by now, all forms of racism would be deemed offensive and unacceptable. Saturday Night Live, and [Read More…]
Goy Toy: Billie Eilish As A Gentile Prototype Telling People to Accept Themselves and Do What Makes Them Feel Good Doesn’t *Quite* Ring True
“‘I feel more like a woman, somehow,’ she says, surprised.” This Billie Eilish asserts of going blonde in her much talked-about British Vogue cover story. [Read More…]
Michael Lohan, Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab”
Just when you thought Lindsay Lohan had (again) faded entirely from the spotlight, her perhaps even more notorious father, Michael, decides to go and get [Read More…]
Lourdes Leon Casually Reminds Us Timothée Chalamet Was Her First Boyfriend
“I respect him a lot, we were a little item,” Lourdes Leon notes casually and coolly—in a glib, Madonna sort of way—of Timothée Chalamet. “My [Read More…]
Cher: Decadence, Longevity, Eternal Beauty—In Short, It Isn’t “4/20” So Much As the Start of Taurus Season
There are some who still say Taurus season kicks off on April 19th, ostensibly in the wake of that whole controversy circa 2016 when NASA [Read More…]
From Oreo to Dom Pérignon: Unclear How “Creative Freedom” Is “Power” If It’s Under the “Guidance” of a Brand
While some brands are more strangling than others when it comes to “getting in bed together,” Dom Pérignon is presumably “laid-back” (relatively speaking) with regard [Read More…]
Pepé Le Pew As Post-War Incel
Like the old lecher who doesn’t get what he did wrong (here’s looking at you, Andrew Cuomo), Pepé Le Pew’s “cancellation” is likely more painful [Read More…]
“My face is the real shop front”: Pepsi and Nike, Madonna and Lil Nas X
Not to make everything about Madonna (it simply is) in terms of her controversy parallels with Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” [Read More…]
