Tag: Culled Culture
The Opposite of “My Loneliness Is Killing Me”: MARINA Provides an Anthem for the Loners, the Misanthropes, the Introverts, the Empaths, the HSPs and the Social Anxiety-Ridden
If anyone understands how to reach out and touch what’s left of your soul, it is MARINA. Only becoming more brutally honest with each new [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #4: Madonna Hanging With Anti-Semite John Galliano After Getting a Tattoo in Hebrew
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. Madonna has long been a champion of the [Read More…]
In Praise of the Stephen Sondheim Contributions to I’m Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy
Even though, without question, “Vogue” will forever remain the only song remembered by non-Madonna fans from I’m Breathless, it’s more important than ever to recognize [Read More…]
Betty Broderick and Patrizia Reggiani: Two Similarly Motivated Women When It Came to Killing Their Husbands, With the Former Being Portrayed as More Empathetic
As everyone continues to praise Lady Gaga for her horrendous accent in House of Gucci, there’s something else in her performance that audiences have unwittingly [Read More…]
The Aggressively White Heteronormativity of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” Taylor Swift wields this indelible Pablo Neruda quote to set the tone for a song Jake Gyllenhaal [Read More…]
Adele One Night Only: Ultimately, Her Music Still Reveals More About Her Than an Oprah Interview
Wielding the dramatic backdrop of Los Angeles (a city that surely understands the value of the cinematic), Griffith Park Observatory was the ideal location for [Read More…]
Adele’s Amazon Commercial Opts for Home Alone 2 Pigeon Lady/Love Actually Homage
Wilson Phillips told us long ago to “hold on for one more day,” but now, apparently, we need Adele to tell us to as well—being [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s Ultra 80s, Girls Just Want to Have Fun-esque “New Shapes” Video
Charli XCX has never kept her love of the 80s (and therefore the decade’s influence on her work) a secret. With the sonic landscape of [Read More…]
Lorde’s Video for “Fallen Fruit”: A Missed Opportunity in Significantly Evoking What the Song is All About
Does staring “thoughtfully” into the camera really “mean something” anymore? Lorde seems to think so. That it’s all that’s required to get across the message [Read More…]
“Kiss of Life” Is Another Kiss of Death For Kylie Minogue’s Disco Stylings
Kylie Minogue might be trying her best to resuscitate the decided artistic flop that was Disco (tailored to an older gay gentleman imagining himself to [Read More…]
