Tag: Culled Culture
Like Guy Ritchie Trying to Do Murder on the Orient Express: Bullet (to the Brain) Train
Brad Pitt may have recently admitted to GQ that he knows he’s “on his last leg” with regard to his career (ergo, apparently, his life), [Read More…]
Pillaging Loot That’s Already Been Plundered: On Beyoncé Doing Madonna
“The loot we pillaged had been plundered.” It’s one of the most indelible lines from Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Gay Bar. An aphorism that speaks to [Read More…]
Madonna Reinforces an Increasingly Anachronistic Message on an Updated “Material Gworl”
Madonna has been quite busy repackaging her music this week. In addition to proving that Beyoncé is just as much of an opportunist (frequently posing [Read More…]
Who’s Afraid of Beyoncé Knowles? Everyone (And Diane Warren)
Diane Warren’s songwriting is what the modern, jaded type might refer to as “schlock.” Maudlin, antiquated shite about yearning and pining that doesn’t actually exist. [Read More…]
Monica Lewinsky Is Right to Shoot Her Shot at Asking Beyoncé for a Re-Record of “Partition”
Not long ago in some ways, 2013 was still a cultural moment when a person like Monica Lewinsky could continue to be mocked despite a [Read More…]
Too Much Trauma Shield: Britney’s Seeming Immunity to Critiques of Environmentally-Damaging Displays of Wealth
Amid Taylor Swift’s placement on the slow-burning pyre for being the celebrity with the highest amount of carbon emissions this year, other stars of every [Read More…]
The Celebrity Private Jet “Reckoning”
Usually, when Saint Hoax gets around to mocking something (consistently obsessing over American shit instead of giving us a glimpse into their own more oppressive [Read More…]
A Walking Dildo in the Desert: Tove Lo’s “2 Die 4”
Unlike the overly sample-happy Beyoncé (who recently made that predilection more blatant than ever on Renaissance), Tove Lo has never actually taken the plunge on [Read More…]
“Your Pain Is Your Biggest Asset”: Not Okay Goes for the White Girl’s Jugular and the Here-to-Stay Trend of Pain Performed for Fame
Once upon a time, on a street corner in Bushwick (where, of course, the “protagonist” of Not Okay lives), there was a manicured (read: commissioned) [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s “Hot Girl” As Regina George’s Thesis Statement
“White Capitalist Bitch” might be a more to-the-point name for Charli XCX’s new single, “Hot Girl” (not to be mistaken for her other temperature-as-aesthetic new [Read More…]
