Flashdance Repackaged the American Dream to Women of Color at a Time When It Was Particularly Antithetical To Do So
With Joe Biden transcending into the “working man done good,” attention has been turned once again to the blue collar nature of Pennsylvania. A state [Read More…]
“OK Boomer” Becomes “You’re A-OK, Boomer”
It’s an irony in keeping with the incongruities of 2020. That after a particularly fiendish four years of the public bemoaning the fact that the [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue Fails to Bring Back “Disco” So Much As A Glimpse Into An Older Gay Gentleman’s Sequestered Mansion
Whether it was intentional or not, it happened: Kylie Minogue looks like a botched version of Olivia Newton-John on her latest album cover. Indeed, the [Read More…]
Public Anger Turns “Fever”-ish When Dua Lipa and Angèle Are Spotted Having A Good Time Through the Small Hours of the London Night
There is a timely sense of rage bubbling to the surface at every turn in Dua Lipa’s latest video co-starring Angèle, who collaborated with her [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus Gives “Midnight Sky” the Official Stevie Nicks Treatment With “Edge of Midnight”
Being that “Midnight Sky” already so patently ripped off many key elements from Stevie Nicks’ seminal 1981 hit, “Edge of Seventeen,” it was probably only [Read More…]
Kiiara’s Lil Kiiwi: For New Zealanders and Others to Enjoy
As Ellie Goulding also recently chose to do on her album cover for Brightest Blue, Kiiara, too, has opted for a decidedly “I’m Lana Del [Read More…]
Dua Lipa and Angèle Are Here to Check Your Fever (Though Probably Not, Because Too Many People Have It So It’s Sort of a Fait Accompli)
Every time you think Dua Lipa might pause for a break, she even manages to show up Ariana Grande in terms of coming at lightning [Read More…]
“The Craft”: Not a “Legacy” So Much As An Abortion
Because everything old must be made new again and also repurposed for an apparently more lily-livered audience called Gen Z, we’ve been given The Craft: [Read More…]
Ariana Grande Adopts Many Positions on New Album, Mainly that of Brandy’s and Other Assorted 90s R&B
It’s ironic, really, that Brandy should release her seventh record the same year as Ariana Grande decides to completely tweak her voice to become the [Read More…]
Five Years Later, It’s Easy To See The Quarantine Vibes of Adele’s “Hello”
Five years ago, which now somehow feels like twenty, Adele graced us with the first single from what was her third album, 25–reportedly the last [Read More…]
