Category: Pop Culture
From 5150 Involuntary Psychiatric Hold to Self-Admittance: Mental Health Perception Has Clearly Changed Based on Britney ’07 vs. Britney ’19
In 2007, amid a barrage of personal struggles including the death of her aunt, divorce from Kevin Federline and losing custody of her children after [Read More…]
The Creepiness of Having an On Location Photographer to Document the Reaction to Your Proposal
J. Lo and A. Rod: what two celebrities with perfectly suited to one another abbreviated names could belong together more? No strangers to cultivating the [Read More…]
Wade Robson Causes Justin Timberlake Two Major Heartaches
As soon as one gets past the initial shock of Wade Robson’s vomit-inducing confessions in Leaving Neverland, they suddenly seem to remember that Robson himself [Read More…]
The Death of the 90s in the Span of a Week: Keith Flint, Luke Perry & the Release of Leaving Neverland
Despite the steady and constant stream of 90s nostalgia that has kept Urban Outfitters afloat for the past decade, the actual death of all the [Read More…]
Dylan McKay: The Last of the Moody Heterosexual Male Tropes
It was roughly around the time of 1995 (also, incidentally, the same year Luke Perry left Beverly Hills 90210 to pursue “other projects”) that the [Read More…]
Madonna Takes on the Character of Her Truth or Dare Persona for 1990 Iteration of Maternalness
Sucking on her candy of choice in those days–a Mike and Ike–she says, “I think I have unconsciously chosen people that are emotionally crippled in [Read More…]
In the League of Jeff Gillooly: Jussie Smollett
As though 1994 were alive and well again (though unfortunately not in the sense that a Clinton is in office), Jussie Smollett (who no one [Read More…]
The Defunct Ability to Lampoon Presidents With the Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday” Shtick
In 1993, the inauguration of Bill Clinton left the Gen X denizens of the U.S. with a sense of potential hope for the future. Well, [Read More…]
That Moment When Your Old Self Would Be Ashamed of Your New Self
There is a famed, cringe-worthy moment in the first episode of the fourth season of Sex and the City (“The Agony and the ‘Ex’-tacy”) in [Read More…]
Cardi B Communicates in a Similar Child-Like Manner as the President She’s Railed Against
Though politics and pop culture have long commingled (mainly since the days of Marilyn Monroe crooning “Happy Birthday” to JFK while bursting of a transparent [Read More…]
