Tag: Culled Culture
There’s A Fighter in Every Lover, Taylor Swift Suggests
It took Taylor Swift a long time to find her voice without tiptoeing around a need to be politically correct or maintain an air of [Read More…]
The New York/California Schizo: Miss Lana Del Rey in “Fuck It I Love You” & “The Greatest”
For a long time, it seemed as though, like all of us (or at least those with any creative sensibility), Lana Del Rey was trying [Read More…]
Late Night Does Its Best to Implement Tenets of a The Devil Wears Prada Formula, But Stumbles Through the (Movie Theater) Airwaves
Had Paul Feig directed Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, as originally intended, of course, there would have been a certain meta ironic element. For the bulk [Read More…]
Miley Cyrus’ “Slide Away” Builds On The Unignorable Trend of Female Pop Singers Having A Monopoly on Heartache
It seems as though an eternity has passed since Justin Timberlake came out with the jilted from the male perspective anthem that was 2002’s “Cry [Read More…]
The Last Big Dick Picture: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Perhaps it took Quentin Tarantino this long to fully (and usefully) process the fact that he was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds’ character on [Read More…]
Even In the Most Germinal Phase of the Internet, The Net Warned Against It As A Black Hole of Identity Loss
Despite the fact that, in the present, so much of one’s identity is wrapped up in the “profiles” of social media (a.k.a. the internet)–as though [Read More…]
If Your Cat Could Talk, He Would Say, “Feed Me, Fuckface”: The Voices
Is it challenging to make a schizophrenic serial killer come across as endearing? Not for Ryan Reynolds interpreting Michael R. Perry’s deftly paced script for [Read More…]
Can We Get A Bechdel Test For Pop Songs?: Katy Perry Takes A Lyrical Page From “Ex”-Nemesis Taylor Swift’s Playbook on “Small Talk”
Perhaps there ought to be a separate definition for the Bechdel test when it comes to the pop song, for it appears practically impossible for [Read More…]
A Midsommar Night’s Psilocybin Trip
For many watching Midsommar, the furthest thing from their mind will be the image of its then four-year-old director, Ari Aster, taking in his first [Read More…]
The American (Double) Standard of Consequence
With the wave of two coinciding incidents involving Americans abroad (for yes, A$AP Rocky is, at the end of the day, just another American)–namely, Europe, [Read More…]
