A Girl Is Driven Home Alone at Night: Florence + the Machine’s “One of the Greats”
In keeping with the theme of “Everybody Scream,” Florence + the Machine’s second single from the album of the same name is all about fame. [Read More…]
On Lola Young and Amy Winehouse’s Generational Divide When It Comes to Dealing With Addiction
While Amy Winehouse might have “glamorized” addiction (in a far less deliberate way than Lana Del Rey “glamorizing abuse”), her proverbial predecessor/the person who is [Read More…]
Endorphin Endorsement: Exercise Gets Madison Beer Feeling Flushed in Video for “Yes Baby”
Although it hasn’t been very long since the last time Madison Beer offered her fans a single, it feels as though years have already gone [Read More…]
To Her (And Most Women’s) Detriment, RAYE Goes Especially Retro on “Where Is My Husband!”
After the success of her debut album, My 21st Century Blues, in 2023, the music industry was pretty much immediately itching to see what RAYE [Read More…]
Lola Young Continues to Prove Herself to Be the Musical Lovechild of Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen on I’m Only F**king Myself
In 2016, Lola Young played one of her earliest live gigs at a pub called The Bedford in London. She was sixteen at the time, [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus’ Something Beautiful Deluxe Likely Only Has Two Additional Songs On It Because One of Them Is Thirteen Minutes
Move over Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey, there’s a new pop star in town with a track that’s somehow even longer than “All Too [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus Will Keep Your “Secrets” (So Long as She Can Do It in Haute Couture)
In a bid to remind people of what a still-underlooked masterpiece Something Beautiful is (in truth, among her best albums to date), Miley Cyrus has [Read More…]
Romance and Yearning, Irish Style: Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Stay on Me” Video
While Sophie Ellis-Bextor might be a born and raised West London girl, her affinity for Ireland is evident in the video for her latest single, [Read More…]
Allie X’s “Is Anybody Out There?” Captures the Loneliness and Insecurity of Solipsism Perfectly
Allie X herself remarked to fans (which she labels “X’s”) that, while they might not have been expecting a new era so soon after Girl [Read More…]
Lily Dabblin’: On Allen’s Departure from Miss Me?
Ever since Lily Allen “unofficially” stopped making music on a consistent basis in 2014, with the release of her third album, Sheezus (a title that [Read More…]