With Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter, Madonna Highlights an Era of Intense Artistic Growth Spurred by Intense Artistic Scrutiny
On October 25, 1994, almost exactly two years after Madonna released Erotica, and with it, a backlash against her like never before, she reemerged with [Read More…]
If You Need a Hit, Robyn’s Gonna Give You It With “Dopamine”
Well before Lily Allen and Lorde were disappearing from music for long stretches of time (though the latter never extends her absence past four years), [Read More…]
Udo Kier’s “Mainstream” Pinnacle: Madonna’s “Deeper and Deeper” Video
Having appeared in movies with titles like Life is Too Long and Swan Song, it was always apparent that Udo Kier didn’t tremble in the [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Returns to Herb Ritts Aesthetics for “Hard” Video
In 2022, FKA Twigs released a standalone single called “Killer.” It was about three years after her abusive relationship with Shia LaBeouf had ended. Though [Read More…]
The “Dopamine Doula” Is Back: Ke$ha’s Animal + Cannibal Fifteenth Anniversary Reissue
In 2010, a seminal voice of a generation emerged. No, it wasn’t motherfucking Lena Dunham, but Kesha Rose Sebert. Better known as her then stylized [Read More…]
Tate McRae’s “Nobody’s Girl” Builds on the “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” Motif
Although a natural continuation of her wrathful “Tit For Tat,” the latest single from Tate McRae, “Nobody’s Girl,” is also a timely “companion piece” to [Read More…]
Maybe Carrie Bradshaw Isn’t Totally Out of Touch Since She Decided, Pre-Vogue Article, to Stay Single
As Kristin Davis has now brought up a few times on her Sex and the City podcast, Are You A Charlotte?, people were outraged when [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Would Like to Remind That She, Too, is a 365 Party Girl with Eusexua Afterglow
There are few musicians with the ability to release two albums in the span of a year (Taylor Swift having once shown such prowess in [Read More…]
Love Is Invisibly Abusive in Charli XCX’s Billie Eilish-esque Video for “Chains of Love”
Though Charli XCX is, of course, a music video innovator in her own right (see: “Beg For You,” “Hot In It” and “360”), it doesn’t [Read More…]
Katy Perry Offers More Visual and Auditory Clichés with “Bandaids”
Even as Katy Perry does her best to be “in on the joke” that has been her career ever since the rollout period for 143 [Read More…]
