Freakier Friday: A Mélange of Lindsay Lohan’s “Greatest Hits” (The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday and Mean Girls)
Because there was no way Lindsay Lohan was ever going to crawl out of the depths of the toilet into which her career descended after [Read More…]
When It Comes to Her Father-Daughter Dynamic, It’s Just as Madonna Once Said: “Life Is a Circle”
There was a time in Madonna’s life when it probably would have been unfathomable (mostly for Madonna herself) to imagine having a close relationship with [Read More…]
Party of One: With the And Just Like That… Series Finale, Michael Patrick King Gives Carrie the Ending He Always Wanted To—Albeit Poorly Executed
As has been Michael Patrick King’s wont throughout the third and final season of And Just Like That…, there have been a lot of callbacks to previous [Read More…]
PinkPantheress’ Gambit: The “Romeo” Video
The success of PinkPantheress’ nine-track mixtape, Fancy That, continues with yet another video from one of the songs on the album, “Romeo.” A mid-tempo ditty that [Read More…]
Olivia Rodrigo Saying Fame Was Essentially Democratized Enough to Include a Certain Lyric on “Vampire” Applies to Addison Rae’s “Fame Is a Gun”
Although Olivia Rodrigo is about three years younger than Addison Rae, it’s still fair to say that she was the one who walked so that [Read More…]
Miley, Kesha, Lorde, Lady Gaga, Charli XCX and the 00s: Ava Max’s “Lovin Myself”
With Don’t Click Play, Ava Max’s upcoming third album following 2023’s Diamonds & Dancefloors, she’s offered up a wide array of “sound palettes”—or “sonic landscapes,” if you [Read More…]
Alanis Morissette Covers Carly Simon’s “Coming Around Again”—With Carly Simon
For those who might see it as “non sequitur” for Alanis Morissette to cover a Carly Simon song, look no further than a 2012 New York [Read More…]
With Weapons, Zach Cregger Continues to Assert Himself as a New Auteur in the Horror Genre
Zach Cregger’s, for all intents and purposes, second movie (it seems unlikely that there would be many people counting Miss March), Weapons, is already a sign of [Read More…]
In Honor of Laufey’s “Snow White,” A List of Songs About Beauty
With the release of Laufey’s affecting single, “Snow White,” it’s worth looking back on some of the various other songs that women (the gender most [Read More…]
With “Snow White,” Laufey Offers a Kind of “Pressures of Beauty Standards” Foil to Xtina’s “Beautiful”
Although the 2000s, especially to Gen Z (and now, Gen Alpha), seem like ages ago (or, as Lorde puts it on Solar Power’s “Mood Ring,” “Don’t [Read More…]
