Category: Pop Culture
Dancing to Phil Collins With Duct Tape: The Patrick Bateman/Andrew Cunanan Connection
As we enter further into the psychotic, drug-addled brain of Andrew Cunanan with each new episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace, one can’t help [Read More…]
Donatella as Huckster: Designing a Leotard For Gaga That Forced Her to Wear Madonna’s Head
It’s the feud endlessly regurgitated by drag queens and anomalous straight women like myself ever since Madonna’s infamous 2012 “Look it up” comment with regard [Read More…]
Keep Your “Supplies,” Or: What the Fuck is Justin Timberlake Doing?
With what will soon amount to five albums in sixteen years, former boy band staple Justin Timberlake has never bothered to get very political, relying [Read More…]
File Under Why God Why?: Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” Being Used in an Applebee’s Commercial
As though life was content to continue proving, “I will shit on everything you love,” Applebee’s use of the unspokenly sacrosanct power ballad that is [Read More…]
No “Finesse” to What Bruno Mars & Cardi B Are “Doing”
Though the Cardi B and Bruno Mars collaboration, “Finesse,” a remix of a song already featured on the odious 24K Magic–the 2016 album that wouldn’t die–is [Read More…]
Whether Miami, Tokyo or London, Taylor Swift’s “End Game” Video Is An Attempt to Channel “Carefreeness”
As Taylor Swift continues to retool her “reputation” to her advantage by becoming more of a bad girl, it seems the video for “End Game” [Read More…]
Diet Misandry at Golden Globes 2018
“Here are the all-male nominees,” Natalie Portman underscores while standing next to Ron Howard to present the award for Best Director (which, by the way, [Read More…]
Simpler Times at the Golden Globes: Like When Elton John’s Boo Berated Madonna for Winning & Madonna Thanked Harvey Weinstein
It’s one of those non-secrets that we all agree not to acknowledge: that many a gay man holds a barely veiled contempt not just for [Read More…]
NOW Meryl Feels Compelled to Speak on Sexual Harassment, And It’s Rather Kevin Spacey-esque in Its Deflection
In the face of continued pressure to actually express an opinion–largely thanks to Rose McGowan’s rampant and merciless shaming about actresses wearing black to the [Read More…]
Brenda in Adventures in Babysitting as Precursor to Barb in Stranger Things
Considering the thoroughness with which Stranger Things strives to appear as a show directly out of the 80s, it’s not remarkable that the inspiration for [Read More…]
