Tag: Culled Culture
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…]
WAP 2.0: Tanu Muino Shows Off her Own “Wild Side” in Normani and Cardi B’s Collaboration Together
Making a brief foray into the mainstream in 2019 with the mostly lackluster “Small Talk” video for Katy Perry (though, to be fair, it was [Read More…]
Chvrches Posits That the Enduring “Good Girls” Trope Is A Result of Not Killing Our (Male) Idols
So much has happened since Chvrches’ last album, Love Is Dead, was released in 2018 that it feels like an entire lifetime ago. And, in [Read More…]
Andrew McCarthy Makes A Case For …And Just Like That Being Better With, At the Very Least, Kim Cattrall’s Mannequin
Of all the people to have shut down the meme scene that arose in the wake of the first “major” promotional still to materialize from [Read More…]
