Tag: 1960s
Hippie-Dippy Woman + “Bring Your Love” Redux: Madonna’s “Love Sensation” Sounds Familiar in More Ways Than One
If Britney Spears’ most used word in her songs is “baby,” it can be said that Madonna’s is probably “love.” This word itself being the [Read More…]
Brian Wilson’s Death Arrives at an Uncanny Moment In Terms of His Relationship to California & How It’s Being Treated
The death of Brian Wilson has come at an uncanny moment. Aligning with a time in California’s history that is inarguably among its most fraught. [Read More…]
The Beginning of a Moral Gray Area in Media on Live Color TV: September 5
Of course, many might wonder why, of all the historical subject matters to focus on, yet again, the events of the Munich massacre on September [Read More…]
The Bikeriders Ending: Not Necessarily a “Happy” One
Because The Bikeriders is filled with so much death and tragedy, it’s to be expected that writer-director Jeff Nichols might want to throw the audience [Read More…]
The Bikeriders: America in Decay and Contentious Generational Divides Have Long Been a Motif of the Nation
One wonders, sometimes, if there was ever truly a period in U.S. history that was “golden,” so much as the nation being in an ever-increasing [Read More…]
Olivia Rodrigo and the Myth of “Kennedy Class,” Or: The Kennedy Fallacy
In keeping with the tradition of elevating the Kennedys to the height of glamor in American politics (which should be telling of how “glamorous” American [Read More…]
Bob Dylan Exhibits David Bowie on Blackstar Syndrome With Rough and Rowdy Ways
In the spirit of appropriate things released in time for Father’s Day Weekend, can there be anything more “dad rock”-oriented at this point than Bob [Read More…]
The Gender Double Standard of Drinking in the 60s & Beyond
It was at the end of the 1960s that a staged protest by Betty Friedan and other feminist activists supporting the National Organization for Women [Read More…]
The Self-Quarantine of Betty Draper
As it’s already been noted, Americans experiencing the so-called hell of self-quarantine and the lockdown measures thereof (though it will never compare to the actions [Read More…]
“The Legend of a Man-Fish”: The Shape of Water at Last Finds The Creature From the Black Lagoon Vindicated
“Time is but a river flowing from our past.” This is the first “thought of the day” we’re confronted with as mute cleaning woman Elisa [Read More…]
