Tag: Culled Culture
Megan Thee Stallion Brings Back Real Choreography, Random Cameos For “Body” Video
In a year characterized by the distinctly flaccid music video posing as “lo-fi” thanks to Covid restrictions (see: Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey and Billie [Read More…]
Extra! Extra! Hear All About It: Megan Thee Stallion Has Good News
Megan Thee Stallion has achieved a number of milestones in time for the year that has marked her quarter of a century. Thus, at twenty-five, [Read More…]
Not An Ideal Cover For Lana Del Rey: Anything From Porgy and Bess
The Queen of Summertime, she might proclaim of herself. And maybe she’s earned the title, for there are few other musicians who come to mind [Read More…]
The Life Ahead Is Sophia Loren’s Love Letter to the Southern Italian Philosophy That Life’s Ugliness Contains Beauty… While Tempering It With A Statement on Migrants
Perhaps for no one else would Sophia Loren come out of her unspoken retirement than her own son, Edoardo Ponti. Her youngest son, Ponti possesses [Read More…]
Ariana Grande’s Lackluster Video Concepts Have Never Translated Into the Greatness That Britney Spears Could Lend the Similarly Banal
On the heels of two rather especially “meh” videos from Ariana Grande, “Positions” and “34+35,” it leaves one wondering how a fellow Princess of Pop, [Read More…]
34+35 = Austin Powers Allusions Don’t Exactly Make Anyone “Randy”–And They Never Did
After taking on the presidential role (as literally anyone can now) in the “Positions” video, Ariana Grande has seen fit to experiment with a new [Read More…]
No Adjudication Needed: The Queen’s Gambit Wins the Brilliancy Prize
As a man who largely made his legacy out of “game” books (namely, The Hustler and The Color of Money), one of the few novels [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Makes A Strong Case to Keep Dead Malls As Mausoleums to American Capitalism’s “Glossier” Era
While Billie Eilish, at her “tender age” (to use a cringe-y expression), could never possibly know the true clout a mall once had (reaching a [Read More…]
Mrs. Danvers Is Every Trump Loyalist
With the latest addition to the pile of Alfred Hitchcock remakes being Rebecca, one can’t help but study with more double take curiosity the utterly [Read More…]
Rebecca Redux: A Sumptuous Effort That Takes Understated Liberties With Hitchcock’s Original
Remaking anything from the Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre is always an emboldened move. And yet, at the same time, in the present climate of a total [Read More…]
