In 1999, It Was “E-Mail My Heart;” In 2022, It’s “emails i can’t send”
In another life called the 90s, the novelty of e-mailing (still presented with a hyphen back then) and its time and space-transcending abilities felt worthy [Read More…]
Bitterer Than Sour: Olivia Rodrigo Gets One-Upped By Sabrina Carpenter’s Emails I Can’t Send
Olivia Rodrigo might have believed she had the upper hand for a while there after the release of “drivers license” followed by her runaway hit [Read More…]
Always An Invisible Fairy Godmother, Never A Princess: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Before France surrendered to being decidedly Americanized in its quest to become part of the “globalization effort” that the U.S. rallied hard for after the [Read More…]
Identifying With Kya’s Brand of Agoraphobia in Where the Crawdads Sing
Throughout Where the Crawdads Sing, there is a mostly unspoken realization by those few who wish to be part of Catherine Danielle Clark’s (Daisy Edgar-Jones) [Read More…]
Your Brain on Nature: Where the Crawdads Sing Offers Transcendentalism, and a Dash of Dawson’s Creek Mixed With The Notebook
For a long time, the push toward “modernization” (a thin veneer to layer over what remains barbarism) seemed designed to make anyone who still clung [Read More…]
Kesha’s Timely Revival of “Rich, White, Straight Men” For An Eerie Lil’ Puppet Show in Music Video Form
Of course, it’s always been very dubious just how “straight” a straight man in the upper echelons of society really is. For his preference for [Read More…]
“It’s Ciara. Ms. Jackson, if you’re nasty”: Janet Is All Over “Jump”
Citing Janet Jackson and Destiny’s Child as key influences after seeing them perform on TV when she was younger, it’s no secret that Ciara continues [Read More…]
Honeymoon in Vegas Was James Caan’s True Masterpiece
James Caan was among the annals of the increasingly extinct “Hollywood Actor” with a capital A. And yeah, he voted for Trump thanks to being [Read More…]
Don’t Tamper With Mamma Natura: Lamb
Maybe it is because Lamb immediately establishes itself in something like a far-off universe—Iceland—where Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) discusses time travel now being a possibility [Read More…]
Allie X Meets Banks on Xylø’s Damning Unamerican Beauty
After a series of EPs released in the wake of her successful self-released 2015 single, “America,” Xylø has continued with the theme of darkness that [Read More…]
