Tag: Culled Culture
May December Cuts to the Core of American Culture’s Love of Real-Life Trauma As “Entertainment”
There was a time in the 90s where it seemed one couldn’t avoid a tabloid (whether in print or TV) headline about a teacher’s “inappropriate [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey Fully Embraces Her Cosplaying Hickdom By Releasing a Cover of “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
It’s only appropriate that Lana Del Rey should opt to make her latest cover song (of which there are already many, including that live performance [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey “Redeems” Her Absence on the Priscilla Soundtrack With Somewhat Lackluster “Unchained Melody” Performance for Christmas at Graceland
Lana Del Rey’s love for Elvis Presley is, by now, well-established. Which is why so many were surprised to learn she wouldn’t be in some [Read More…]
Crossroads and Britney Spears As Unwilling Method Actor
Of all the films Britney Spears could have “gone all Method” for, a “frothy” (but actually fundamentally deep) teen road movie called Crossroads probably wouldn’t [Read More…]
Madonna Sr., Martin Burgoyne and World AIDS Day
Anyone who has even the most cursory knowledge of Madonna ought to know by now that her mother, Madonna Fortin Ciccone Sr., died when she [Read More…]
On How Vanessa Williams’ “Save the Best for Last” Is the Ultimate “Eh, I Guess You’ll Do” Track
Echoing Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” long before it ever came out, Vanessa Williams’ hit single from 1992, “Save the Best for Last,” also [Read More…]
No Dick Allowed: Kali Uchis and Karol G’s “Labios Mordidos” Video
After releasing her third album, Red Moon in Venus, earlier this year, Kali Uchis is already moving on to her next “era” (since that’s the [Read More…]
Diana’s Ghost Might Actually Come Back to Punish Those Responsible for The Crown Season 6
Princess Diana’s life, of course, has always been the stuff that soap opera fodder is made of. But usually, that “fodder” has been given the [Read More…]
Cry For Argentina (Among Other Countries)
As the world continues to turn evermore in an extreme right-leaning direction, it can be no real surprise (especially not to the highly jaded ones) [Read More…]
This Ain’t “We Are the World”: Björk and Rosalía Join Forces on a Charity Single Called “Oral”
In many ways, a collaboration between Björk and Rosalía feels obvious, even overdue. A no-brainer. In others, the two artists seem so musically divergent that [Read More…]
