Tag: Charli XCX
Mariah Carey’s 4K-Restored “Loverboy” Video: A Charli XCX Wet Dream
It’s no secret (or at least it shouldn’t be) that car racing/the “racetrack culture” and aesthetic were having kind of a moment in the 2000s. [Read More…]
With She’s the Best, Troye Sivan Would Like to Prove He’s the Best…Male Pop Star on Offer at the Moment (And One Who’s Looking for “Ridiculous, Inconvenient, Consuming, Can’t-Live-Without-Each-Other Love”)
In 2023, the last time Troye Sivan released an album (namely, Something to Give Each Other), he was still in his twenties. In between that [Read More…]
Maisi and the Disco is About to Break Out of the Dance Floor’s Shadows with Some Help from “Madonna”
For all the flak Madonna got over her incredible opening performance to the 2026 VMAs, one would never know it based on the continued love [Read More…]
When Madonna and Charli Get Together for the “Danceteria” Afterhours Mix, the Party Starts to Feel Stilted
For “many moons” now, Madonna and Charli XCX had been effectively “dancing around” one another (finally coming face to face at the SS27 Yves Saint [Read More…]
Who Knew Charli XCX Would Be the Death of “Every Kiss Begins With Kay”?
Perhaps in what is yet another major sign of Charli XCX going truly corporate (in addition to a collaboration with Madonna), of all the ad [Read More…]
Troye Sivan Makes the Middle Ages Seem Like Gay Heaven (Complete with a Madonna Sample) for the “Party” Video
Once again proving that he’s studied under the School of Brat (as also evidenced by “She’s the Best”), Troye Sivan’s second single from She’s the [Read More…]
With “She’s the Best,” Troye Sivan Seems to Want to Fill the Void in the Brat Universe Now That Charli XCX Left It
Although gay men are plenty well-known for grafting from women (and often, the caricature of what it’s supposed “mean” to be a woman) while going [Read More…]
Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex: A PSA for Gen Z to Fuck
If anyone was “sex positive” long before that term became chic, it’s Gregg Araki (and, well, Madonna). Known as a leading voice in the Queer [Read More…]
“Putting yourself through something uncomfortable in pursuit of art and performance”: Charli XCX’s Music, Fashion, Film: The Film
Since, evidently, calling something a “visual album” is now so 2013 (yes, a nod to Beyoncé “chang[ing] the game with that digital drop”), it appears [Read More…]
Charli XCX Still Explores the Idea of Being a Selfish “Brat” on Music, Fashion, Film—For That’s Kind of What Being an Artist Is
There was a reason that Charli XCX called Brat an “albatross” during her 2024 interview with Zane Lowe. For she knew then that it would [Read More…]
