Where Shakira and Lana Del Rey Collide: “Don’t Wait Up”
As a song, “Don’t Wait Up” is fairly innocuous, and certainly doesn’t compare to Shakira’s previous single (with Black Eyed Peas), “Girl Like Me.” Yet [Read More…]
Black Widow and Its Parallel to Britney Spears’ Conservatorship
It seems almost too perfectly timed that a Black Widow script about male manipulation and mind control over women should come out the same year [Read More…]
WAP 2.0: Tanu Muino Shows Off her Own “Wild Side” in Normani and Cardi B’s Collaboration Together
Making a brief foray into the mainstream in 2019 with the mostly lackluster “Small Talk” video for Katy Perry (though, to be fair, it was [Read More…]
Chvrches Posits That the Enduring “Good Girls” Trope Is A Result of Not Killing Our (Male) Idols
So much has happened since Chvrches’ last album, Love Is Dead, was released in 2018 that it feels like an entire lifetime ago. And, in [Read More…]
Andrew McCarthy Makes A Case For …And Just Like That Being Better With, At the Very Least, Kim Cattrall’s Mannequin
Of all the people to have shut down the meme scene that arose in the wake of the first “major” promotional still to materialize from [Read More…]
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?: The Artist That Doesn’t Create Becomes A Menace to Society, But The True Artist IS A Menace to Society
A far cry from the likes of Slacker or A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater’s underrated adaptation of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette? is perhaps [Read More…]
“Cherish” Meets “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” With A Dash of “Stars Are Blind”: J. Lo’s “Cambia El Paso” Video
Any beach-oriented video with a woman romping around in it, of course, automatically harkens back to Madonna’s 1989 “Cherish” directed by Herb Ritts. Later, Paris [Read More…]
Celebrity Sympathy Is The New Black
It wouldn’t be right to say celebrity “empathy” is the new black, for that would entail “normals” could actually put themselves in the (Louboutin) shoes [Read More…]
“NDA” Sees Billie Eilish Entering That Phase of Her Career Where Fame Is A Key Topic of Lyrical Discussion
For Madonna, it took until Ray of Light. For Britney, it took until In the Zone. With Billie Eilish, we’re only two albums into her [Read More…]
Zola Highlights How Misogyny Thrives Because Women Still Doubt Themselves Enough to Believe They *Need* Men
There are many questions one who can’t know what the stripper/prostitution life is truly like might ask themselves throughout Zola. But the foremost one is: [Read More…]
