Madonna and Fireboy DML’s “Frozen” Remix Feels More Like an Update to 2019’s “Crave” Than 1998’s “Frozen”
There was a time when it would have been unfathomable for Madonna to bother looking back on or revisiting certain moments in her career. Not [Read More…]
Kim Kardashian Remakes Herself Into a Conservative Darling by Richsplaining: “Get Your Fuckin’ Ass Up and Work”
Considering Variety’s feature article on the Kardashian-Jenners’ latest reality TV foray on Hulu uses the pull quote, “Money Always Matters” in it, maybe it should [Read More…]
The “Millennial” Batman Begat by Gen X
With the last “full-stop” Batman movie coming out in 2012, it seems only correct that, after a decade, Warner Bros. and DC should decide to [Read More…]
Tyga and Doja Cat’s “Freaky Deaky” Video Owes Clueless and Erotica
Ultimately a commentary on how it’s much more fun for a girl to talk about all the things she’d like to do sexually (a.k.a. sext), [Read More…]
Kanye West Doesn’t Kill Kim in His Music, But Eminem Did: Why “Eazy” Sets No Precedent for Male Revenge
There’s no need to emphasize that people’s sensibilities have become far more delicate (while also dichotomously becoming more impervious) since the era when Eminem was [Read More…]
Yuppie Tribalism (Dance Party in Patrick Bateman’s Apartment): Charli XCX’s “Baby” Video
Perhaps if Patrick Bateman hadn’t given a chapter-long discourse on Whitney Houston’s career trajectory in American Psycho, he would have opted instead to do so [Read More…]
Second Estate Food Is For Everyone (Or Should Be): Délicieux
As far as French history goes, one never tires of the approaches that can be taken in exploring the French Revolution. A phenomenon not really [Read More…]
Cold War Stereotypes Renewed: GLOW and the Russian Supervillain
American pop culture has always had a “ready-made” villain in the form of Russians (“those dirty Russians,” “fucking Russians,” etc.). Even as freshly as 2018’s [Read More…]
Radioactive Hauntology: Prisoners of the Ghostland
For Nicolas Cage to deem Prisoners of the Ghostland as “the wildest movie I’ve ever made” is, of course, really saying something. This is the [Read More…]
Social Media in the Time of Full-Scale War
Being that the U.S. in particular has always been sheltered from the sight of war—having never seen it on their soil save for rare occasions [Read More…]
