Tag: Culled Culture
Don’t Kill the Critic, They’re Just the Messenger Saying What No One Else Will
Everyone’s always saying shit like, “Bitch if you’re watching, you’re a fan” or “If you don’t like me and still watch everything I do, you’re [Read More…]
Wasted Latex: Madonna’s Brush With The Matrix
Madonna is known to casually drop bombs in interviews over the past few years in a manner that’s all very, “Oh what, you didn’t know?” [Read More…]
Make Money First, “Do Art” Later: Madonna’s Madame X Theatre Tour Gets the Concert Video Treatment
The more time has gone on, the more Madonna can rely on self-referential material. Not only to reinvigorate it and apply it to the present, [Read More…]
De-Gentrification: The Removal of the White Savior Element Entirely from Nia DaCosta’s Candyman
The evolution of Candyman into its current 2021 state might be surprising in some ways to those familiar with its origins. For the genesis of [Read More…]
The Continued Alignment of Diana and Britney: Controlling Britney Spears and the Trailer for Spencer
While one might merely chalk it up to coincidence that the full-length trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Spencer should be released right around the same day [Read More…]
Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty Show Brings Many Things (But Mainly Busta Rhymes’ Music) to the Forefront
While there are many standout moments from Rihanna’s third volume of the Savage x Fenty show, the newly-minted billionaire made one especially standout artistic choice. [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #40: People Getting “Upset” About Super Mario: The Movie Voice Casting When There Was Never Anything Italian About Super Mario Bros.
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
A Festival of Cringeworthy Non Sequiturs
In Sunset Boulevard, semi-professional screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) gives one of many memorable voiceovers in the form of, “Sometimes it’s interesting to see just [Read More…]
Bob Ross and the Late Twentieth Century Commercialization of Art
The 1980s, in many ways, was the decade responsible for establishing the modern obsession with commercializing art (see: Patrick Nagel). As such, it can be [Read More…]
What Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed Tells Us is the Kowalskis and Jamie Spears Should Get Together and Go Bowling
Of all the people one would least expect to have a sordid history, Bob Ross is right up there with, say, Jessica Simpson (who, yes, [Read More…]
