Tag: Britney Spears
Britney Ran So Younger Generations Could Smoke Joints Onstage
Among the seemingly infinite number of comments that stood out during Britney Spears’ June 23rd testimony regarding her conservatorship, one that rang especially true was [Read More…]
Aliens Surely Can’t Be As Prosaic As Humans—But Doja Cat’s “Need To Know” Video Is Just the “Human Experience,” Alien-ified
Because “alien legitimacy” apparently wouldn’t be complete without Grimes, Doja Cat has continued her outer space motif from the “Kiss Me More” video (more than [Read More…]
Billie Eilish’s Blondeness Lands Her Some Friends As She Does Her “34+35 Remix” Video Shit
Taking a page from Ariana Grande’s Positions catalogue (complete with the game of Twister Ari was a fool not to wield in her visuals), Billie [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Is A Jobist
Despite the increasingly worn-down veneer of what “work” is supposed to “mean” in a post-COVID world, Billie Eilish, that ever-increasingly normie Gen Zer/goy toy, has [Read More…]
Girls5eva De-glamorizes Late 90s/Early 00s Pop for a Tragicomic Effect
If anyone can get “complicated,” niche comedies greenlit, its executive producing duo Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. And while Girls5eva has the Fey stamp of [Read More…]
Britney Spears, A Drink Called “The Slave” and the Ever-Mounting Complication With “I’m A Slave 4 U”
Because Britney Spears continues to be a commodifiable resource well-past her “prime” in the 00s, even the most Podunk of places can find a way [Read More…]
A Certain Foreshadowing Re: Britney Spears Auditioning for the Part of a Woman Who Ends Up Developing Dementia
Despite the information being well-trodden at this juncture, we all know by now that everything old can be made new again. So it is that [Read More…]
(Sweet &) Sour: Olivia Rodrigo’s Debut Is A Teenage Elegy
The thing Olivia Rodrigo has been praised for repeatedly since the monumental and continuing success of “drivers license” is her unique ability to speak to [Read More…]
“Body Ache”: Britney Spears Shows More Signature Foresight In Writing A Song About Vaccine After-Effects
After Billboard’s recent list of the best bridges of the twenty-first century (which included a Britney Spears songwriter named Kesha), it bears noting that just [Read More…]
“I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman” With A Dash of “I’m A Slave 4 U”: Billie Eilish’s “Your Power” Video
It’s quite apropos that a song about a man “in the industry” abusing his power should possess a video with such overt aesthetic nods to [Read More…]