Tag: Genna Rivieccio
Waste Not, Want Not: Kurt Cobain’s Pizza-Greased Paper Plate Makes Big Dough at Auction
Just as punk is not even ironically dead anymore, so, too, has grunge been utterly pulverized by the nature of corporate grafting (as best exhibited [Read More…]
In Light of Moby’s “Confession” About Lana Del Rey, Certain Lyrics of Hers Seem Tailored Toward His 00s Ego
After setting the tone in 1999 with Play for his commercialized career of the 00s, Moby very much indeed transcended into “the man.” Though not [Read More…]
The Bellagio Will Go On: Céline Dion’s Carpool Karaoke Episode Will Make You Laugh, Cry & Try to Assess Where Her Shoe Warehouse is Located
For those who have forgotten just how “wacky” Céline Dion can be (even though it wasn’t that long ago that her commercial for Célinununu, her genderless [Read More…]
Doris Day Represented More Than a Golden Age of Hollywood, But Also a Golden Age of Whitewashing
As one of the last major living icons of un certain Golden Age in Hollywood, the one that made it so much easier to release [Read More…]
Ciara Declares Scars Are Beauty Marks, And If So We Are All Riddled With Them
Fond of the May release, Ciara’s seventh album, Beauty Marks, indeed, marks an occasion. For its been four years since the also May-released Jackie came [Read More…]
A Voracious Appetite for Love: “Crave”
Continuing down the path of intricate minimalism following “I Rise,” Madonna’s latest single offers a sweeter sort of yearning and burning than the one presented [Read More…]
Stop Trying to Make Commercialized Camp Happen–It Defeats Its Entire Purpose
First of all, no event of a mainstream nature can possibly be commodifiably camp without the presence of Madonna, who managed to make cone bra [Read More…]
“I Rise” Is The Motivational Anthem Madonna Has Been Trying to Perfect for Awhile
As far back as 1986 with True Blue‘s “Love Makes the World Go Round,” Madonna has been working toward crafting the perfect “unity” anthem. The [Read More…]
Madonna and the Holograms: A Commentary on the Dilemma of Performance in the 21st Century
Of all the places to dabble with the concept of “augmented” reality (as though it’s not already augmented enough), Madonna–and her holograms–likely knew that Las [Read More…]
Do You Respect Mass Communication So Much You Want to Fuck It?: Rammstein Does With “Radio”
If there’s anyone who knows something about growing up in the East/West divide of Berlin in the Cold War days it is Till Lindemann of [Read More…]