Tag: Britney Spears
Britney Spears’ “Circus” Has More Clout and Showgirl Resonance Than the Entire The Life of a Showgirl Album
In 2008, Taylor Swift was not only coming up in the world of music with her sophomore album, Fearless, but, more importantly, Britney Spears was [Read More…]
JADE’s Love is “Unconditional”
Marking the seventh song to be “unveiled” from That’s Showbiz Baby just ahead of its release, JADE’s “Unconditional” embodies another disco-fied sound that’s comparable to [Read More…]
Madonna’s Influence Once Again Makes Itself Known in the Work of Sabrina Carpenter—This Time Via Her 2025 VMA Performance
Just when you think Sabrina Carpenter might be taking a break from her busy schedule of making Madonna references (whether doing her interpretation of M [Read More…]
Apart from Sabrina Carpenter, the 2025 VMAs Keeps It Pretty Tame (and Straight)
Perhaps it was only right that Doja Cat should kick off the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards with a performance of her lead single from [Read More…]
War of the Denim Brands Trying to Play Up the 2000s (a More Marked Time of White Supremacy BTW) Instead of “Great Jeans”
Ever since Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle got it so wrong with their jeans ad, it’s been a free-for-all of shade-throwing on the ad campaign [Read More…]
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…]
Britney Spears Is Ultimately Being Criticized For Not Doing Something for Money
The scrutiny that Britney Spears continues to undergo might not be as “intense” as it was in the early and mid-2000s, but that hardly means [Read More…]
Confidence Man & Jade Provide Some Hot “Gossip”
In the spirit of releasing a “standalone single” (until it invariably ends up on the next album) just for the hell of it, the Australian [Read More…]
Haunted by Summer (and Nostalgia) Forever: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Requel Edition
“Nostalgia’s overrated.” This is what Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) retorts at one point to Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), a fellow OG of being [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s “Type Dangerous”: A Dichotomy of Desires With a “Retro”-Inspired Video
Because Mariah Carey seems to remain consistent in terms of her presence in the public eye, it’s easy for some to forget that, despite her [Read More…]