Joker: Folie à Deux: The Symbol Becomes More Powerful Than the Real Person Behind It
It was Todd Phillips himself who said that Joker was never intended to have a sequel. In many regards, that’s not what Joker: Folie à [Read More…]
Beyond Brat Summer, Or: Why It Was A Summer of Americana Via The Bikeriders and “Tough”
In many ways, Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders and Lana Del Rey x Quavo’s “Tough” achieve the same dichotomous thing: acknowledging the death of what America [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue Serves Her Version of Britney Spears’ “Lucky” Video With “Lights Camera Action”
Proving that female pop stars only get better with age (even if Madonna already did that starting as early as 1998), Kylie Minogue is having [Read More…]
Love Is An Invisible String In Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” Video
For someone who is often seen as an “anti-Taylor,” the motif presented in Billie Eilish’s latest visual offering from Hit Me Hard and Soft, “Birds [Read More…]
Bayou Bride: Lana Del Rey Delivers The Biggest (Yet Most On-Brand) Shock of Her Career By Getting Married to a Swamp Tour Guide
If Lana Del Rey is known for anything besides her melancholic melodies, it’s dating “working-class,” salt of the earth men. Indeed, the most famous men [Read More…]
Janet Jackson Is Presented as Sinner and Saint in the Span of a Week
“Janet Jackson saved my life” is a far cry from some of the other digs lobbed at the singer this past week, after an interview [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #9: Trying to Experience “Luxury” At a Bridgerton Themed Ball in Detroit, Or: Is Eating Kit Kats and Watching A Stripper on a Portable Pole Not Enough For You?
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. Detroit might have come a long way since [Read More…]
Naturally, Imposter Syndrome Is Tackled Through the Lens of “Being A Screenwriter” in Only Murders in the Building’s “Adaptation” Episode
When it comes to wanting to emulate a certain screenwriter, the biggest “douchebag cliché” veers toward Charlie Kaufman worship. In the screenwriting world, it almost [Read More…]
Even Paris Hilton Has Managed to Release an Album That’s More Listenable Than Katy Perry’s 143
If one wanted to know just how embarrassing a musical “comeback” can be, the new benchmark is Katy Perry. Although expectations for 143, her seventh [Read More…]
Chappell Roan’s “Unwitting” Charli XCX Shade
Move over, Billie Eilish, there’s a new environmentally-conscious Gen Z pop star in the mix, and it’s none other than Chappell Roan. Despite her classification [Read More…]
