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, Brown’s [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…]
Mrs. Danvers Is Every Trump Loyalist
With the latest addition to the pile of Alfred Hitchcock remakes being Rebecca, one can’t help but study with more double take curiosity the utterly [Read More…]
Rebecca Redux: A Sumptuous Effort That Takes Understated Liberties With Hitchcock’s Original
Remaking anything from the Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre is always an emboldened move. And yet, at the same time, in the present climate of a total [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s Only Mentions of Madonna in Her Autobio Are Expectedly Shade-Drenched
While Madonna is no stranger to being her own Master of Shade, it has always been, in this particular dynamic, Mariah Carey to keep the [Read More…]
