Tag: Culled Culture
Paris Hilton at the Grocery Store: A Stepford Wife Homage
Among the numerous tropes brandished for the sake of “comedy” in Cooking With Paris, the most consistently used one is of Paris Hilton at the [Read More…]
Paris Hilton Relies on a Tried-and-True Persona for Cooking With Paris, But Profligacy Is No Longer “Cute”
Painting herself evermore into the generational corner of “millennial icon,” Paris Hilton has found a new and particular way to make herself rather odious to [Read More…]
Society’s Porcine Ways Revealed With Biting Subtlety in Pig
They say that it is the olfactory sense that is most closely linked to memory. But if Marcel Proust had anything to say about it [Read More…]
Get Some (Semi-Free) Therapy from Anne-Marie
Three years after the release of her debut, Speak Your Mind, Anne-Marie’s sophomore follow-up, Therapy, has been well worth the wait. And, considering Anne-Marie already [Read More…]
Bennifer Is Giving Us an Homage-Drenched Sequel, But It Isn’t to Gigli So Much As a Visual Representation of This Is Me… Then
Nodding to the paparazzi shots and semiotics that comprised their short-lived romance from 2002 to 2004, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck seem to be trolling [Read More…]
“EveryTime I Cry” is Ava Max’s “Rain on Me”
Because sad dance anthems have been the way of summer ever since Reich & Bleich remixed Lana Del Rey in 2012, Ava Max continues the [Read More…]
The “Save Your Tears Remix” Video Directly Negates the Same Premise Presented in “Build-a-Bitch”
Bella Poarch may have risen so fast to stardom that she didn’t quite have time to check on a more original idea for the video [Read More…]
“A perfect storm of sex kitten, raw talent and poor impulse control”: Amy Winehouse Was Given the Britney Treatment in the UK
Although L.A. is its own microcosm of paparazzi constantly trolling for the next humiliating candid photo, the UK (which just looks better without periods between [Read More…]
Stoned at the Nail Salon: Lorde’s “Way Existential” Rumination on “Aging”
Not taking a page from the pop star handbook that insists “produce, produce, produce” and “always stay in the spotlight lest they forget you” that [Read More…]
Last One to Die Please Turn Out the Light: Children of Men
The rhetoric of ingraining Britons with the idea that “only Britain soldiers on” while “the whole world has collapsed” seems only too relevant. Perhaps even [Read More…]
