Mariah Carey’s The Rarities Is A Vision of Love–But That Doesn’t Always Make It Pleasant
October 22, 1990 is arguably the day one could say Mariah Carey’s career “began.” For that was where she performed her first live showcase at [Read More…]
Billie Eilish’s “No Time To Die” Video Offers A Lounge Singer Trope & Not Much Else
Where music videos for Bond themes are concerned, there has been no shortage of memorable ones. From Duran Duran’s “A View To A Kill” with [Read More…]
Romy Finally Gets the Chance to Be the 80s-Era Pop Star She Was Meant to With “Lifetime”
Romy a.k.a. Romy Madley Croft a.k.a. Romy xx a.k.a. Romy from The xx a.k.a. Romy, not from Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. However you [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #25: Reverence for Miley Cyrus’ Cover of “Heart of Glass”
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
Charlie Kaufman’s Wet Dream Fashion Show, Or: Wait, Models Weren’t Puppets Already?
It almost seems more than slightly tinged with shade (whether “unwitting” or not) that Jeremy Scott should choose to wield puppets as his models for [Read More…]
For A Song Called “Hallucinogenics,” Matt Maeson and LDR Make It Sound Soberly Vanilla
Maybe it was appropriate that Matt Maeson’s first single was called “Cringe,” for that’s the effect his music has on anyone who doesn’t view the [Read More…]
Enola Holmes: A Thinly Veiled Barb at the England of the Present
One supposes the leap from directing most of the episodes in seasons one and two of Fleabag to a narrative about Sherlock Holmes’ teenage sister [Read More…]
“Franchise” This
It’s almost as if Travis Scott is trying to tell us something about his strategy for world domination in the titles of his songs of [Read More…]
Art For Art’s Sake Don’t Pay the Bills: The Burnt Orange Heresy
As though director Giuseppe Capotondi and screenwriter Scott B. Smith unwittingly took a key kernel of a driving plot point in Tenet, The Burnt Orange [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue Loses Some of Her “Magic” With Latest Song
While the first single for Disco, “Say Something,” was a hopeful glimpse (and apparently a source of inspiration to Miley Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” video) into [Read More…]
