Gwen Stefani’s “Slow Clap” Video Featuring Saweetie Provides The Internet A Slow Burn Opportunity
Although no one should really be all that surprised at this point by Gwen Stefani’s ability to not quite grasp the difference between cultural appropriation [Read More…]
Singing Teen Girl Lyrics Thirteen Years On & Ironically Getting More Agency Out of It: Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
One wonders at times if there were several moments when Taylor Swift might have cringed throughout the re-recording of her 2008 sophomore album, Fearless. The [Read More…]
It Takes Two (Doja Cat and SZA) to Try to Fill the “Oops!…I Did It Again” Void
In another case of people perhaps assuming that once enough time passes in the pop culture realm, it opens up a free-for-all opportunity to copy [Read More…]
From Oreo to Dom Pérignon: Unclear How “Creative Freedom” Is “Power” If It’s Under the “Guidance” of a Brand
While some brands are more strangling than others when it comes to “getting in bed together,” Dom Pérignon is presumably “laid-back” (relatively speaking) with regard [Read More…]
That Time Carrie Bradshaw Excused Away Sexually Predatory Behavior
Although Carrie Bradshaw (and Sex and the City in general) has been accused of many faux pas as the years have gone by, one of [Read More…]
Angel-A: City of Angels (a.k.a. Wings of Desire) Meets It’s A Wonderful Life
While the ending of Angel-A has a certain taint to its “forced hand” nature in terms of “persuading” (with physical coercion) a girl that she [Read More…]
Jesus Chose Not to Revive After Being Forced to Dance With Rebecca Leeman
There is a certain type of Christian, of course. Whether Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist or, in Rebecca Ann Leeman’s (Denise Richards) case, Lutheran. The kind who [Read More…]
Were You That Special, Or Just Another Type To Fit The Mold?: Olivia Rodrigo’s “deja vu”
Sticking to a theme that launched her into a Taylor Swift-like echelon in terms of exuding a Crowned Singer-Songwriter of Pop vibe, Olivia Rodrigo has [Read More…]
Pepé Le Pew As Post-War Incel
Like the old lecher who doesn’t get what he did wrong (here’s looking at you, Andrew Cuomo), Pepé Le Pew’s “cancellation” is likely more painful [Read More…]
“My face is the real shop front”: Pepsi and Nike, Madonna and Lil Nas X
Not to make everything about Madonna (it simply is) in terms of her controversy parallels with Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” [Read More…]