Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa Try To Re-create Wreck Room But It’s The Double Down Saloon, a.k.a. “Hannah Montana-ified”
In another instance of naming a song too similarly to (read: exactly the same as) someone else’s, Miley Cyrus has challenged The Weeknd’s own “Prisoner” [Read More…]
Not An Ideal Cover For Lana Del Rey: Anything From Porgy and Bess
The Queen of Summertime, she might proclaim of herself. And maybe she’s earned the title, for there are few other musicians who come to mind [Read More…]
The Life Ahead Is Sophia Loren’s Love Letter to the Southern Italian Philosophy That Life’s Ugliness Contains Beauty… While Tempering It With A Statement on Migrants
Perhaps for no one else would Sophia Loren come out of her unspoken retirement than her own son, Edoardo Ponti. Her youngest son, Ponti possesses [Read More…]
She Wants the D(estruction of Patriarchy): MARINA’s “Man’s World,” Despite Title, Calls For An Alternative to This Fledgling System
James Brown famously released the “biblically chauvinistic” song “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” in 1966. To add an extra layer to that chauvinism, his [Read More…]
Ariana Grande’s Lackluster Video Concepts Have Never Translated Into the Greatness That Britney Spears Could Lend the Similarly Banal
On the heels of two rather especially “meh” videos from Ariana Grande, “Positions” and “34+35,” it leaves one wondering how a fellow Princess of Pop, [Read More…]
34+35 = Austin Powers Allusions Don’t Exactly Make Anyone “Randy”–And They Never Did
After taking on the presidential role (as literally anyone can now) in the “Positions” video, Ariana Grande has seen fit to experiment with a new [Read More…]
Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Falls on the Ground With the Spotlight-Stealing Women of the 80s: Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher
The highly anticipated fourth season of The Crown does not fail to deliver on the expected contentions and scandals of the decade, most of them [Read More…]
The Haunting of Bly Manor and the Reinforcement of Coupling Despotism
As far as adaptations of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw go, there is no shortage. And 1961’s The Innocents (co-written by Truman Capote [Read More…]
No Adjudication Needed: The Queen’s Gambit Wins the Brilliancy Prize
As a man who largely made his legacy out of “game” books (namely, The Hustler and The Color of Money), one of the few novels [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Makes A Strong Case to Keep Dead Malls As Mausoleums to American Capitalism’s “Glossier” Era
While Billie Eilish, at her “tender age” (to use a cringe-y expression), could never possibly know the true clout a mall once had (reaching a [Read More…]