Tag: Britney Spears
Sabrina Carpenter Leans Further Into Her Raunchy n’ Ribald Persona on Short n’ Sweet (Deluxe)
Although Sabrina Carpenter announced that the release of a deluxe edition of Short n’ Sweet was in honor of her two Grammy wins for the album (Best [Read More…]
Madonna Is Still the Greatest Pop Star of the Twenty-First Century
While no one wants to hear this (least of all ageists or the Beyhive), Madonna remains, despite Billboard’s recent list to the contrary, the greatest pop [Read More…]
Charli XCX Gives Major Britney Spears Energy With the Rain Portion of the Brat Tour
It’s no secret that Britney Spears has influenced a great many of the pop stars who arrived onto the scene after her. From Miley Cyrus [Read More…]
Twin Songs in the Britney Canon: “Don’t Go Knockin’ on My Door” and “Lonely”
Although Britney Spears’ musical canon is filled with recurring motifs (packed with use of the epithet “baby”), perhaps the most “twin-like” songs in her oeuvre [Read More…]
Mondo Appropriato #9: The Christina Aguilera/Sabrina Carpenter Alliance
In a series called Mondo Appropriato, Culled Culture examines how “on the nose” something is in the pop cultural and/or political landscape. While some might [Read More…]
The Voss Water Repetition in Smile 2 and What It Says About Film Product Placement Today
Perhaps even more than the various terrifying scenes of Smile 2, what audiences are seeming to remember most after seeing Parker Finn’s sequel is the [Read More…]
Smile 2: Stars—They’re Just Like Us!, Or: Even Pop Stars Get Demonically Possessed
With such pressure to outperform the success of 2022’s Smile, writer-director Parker Finn wanted to approach the movie’s sequel from an entirely new angle. And [Read More…]
Masks! Innuendos! Double Cigarette Smoking!: Addison Rae’s “Aquamarine”
While Addison Rae might have only been five going on six years old when Aquamarine came out, clearly it must have had a lasting subliminal [Read More…]
“ADHD” According to Paris Hilton: “That’s Hot”
Building on the growing arsenal of singles and videos that Paris Hilton has thus far released from her second album, Infinite Icon, “ADHD” marks the [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…]
