Tag: Culled Culture
Murder Mystery 2 Will Murder Your Mind
It’s the usual “rule” that a sequel is required to be spectacularly inferior to its original. But Murder Mystery 2 seemed to take that unspoken [Read More…]
A Gen Z Kind of Daftness: On Billie Eilish’s Lack of Awareness of Taylor Swift Singing “Picture to Burn” or What “Burn” Even Meant Within the Context
With each new generation that “comes up,” there is the constant accusation from previous ones that there has never been a worse sect of people [Read More…]
Symphorophiliac Is the New Black: Tove Lo Takes J. G. Ballard’s Crash to A Different Level in “Borderline”
When last we left Tove Lo’s jilted robot lover in the Alaska-directed video for Dirt Femme’s second single, “No One Dies From Love,” Annie 3000 [Read More…]
The Evolution of Songs About Nuclear War From Serious Threat to Love Metaphor, Or: The Present Relevancy of Charli XCX’s “Nuclear Seasons” and MARINA’s “Radioactive”
While everyone had assumed that 1) Putin would never dare to actually invade Ukraine and that 2) if he did, it would never go on [Read More…]
“There’s No Remedy For Memory”…Other Than to Drown In It: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg’s entire film career has been about going against the grain. Defying the expectation that a movie needs to be “big” in order to [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey Grapples With A New “Persona”—Middle-Age Angst—On Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
It seems fitting that Lana Del Rey would post and then delete a video (à la Britney) about persona on her Instagram the same day [Read More…]
The Obsession With Marking Time Through Pop Culture
In the past several years, it’s become more and more common to “celebrate” (or mourn) the passing of milestone anniversaries for films and albums. This [Read More…]
Swarm Crystallizes That Celebrities Are the New Gods, and There Is No Freedom of Speech When Speaking “Ill” of Them
For as much talk as there is of late about how “terrible” and “harrowing” it is to be a celebrity, perhaps the worst fate in [Read More…]
Taylor’s Four-Pack (Of “New” Songs)
In 2022, Madonna stated the obvious with regard to the mention of potentially selling her music catalogue: “Ownership is everything.” In other words, there’s no [Read More…]
Bears Just Wanna Have Fun, Or: A Tragedy Becomes A Comedy in Cocaine Bear
Elizabeth Banks noted that it might be the movie that could end her career. In contrast, the antics of the eponymous bear in Cocaine Bear [Read More…]
