Tag: Genna Rivieccio
Charli XCX’s “Forever” Video Is A Fractured, Disjointed Look at the Contrast Between How We Live Now & How We Did Then
As Charli XCX continues her democratic music-making process for an album called How I’m Feeling Now (to be released in mid-May), the British-turned-Angeleno chanteuse has [Read More…]
Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters Is a Quarantine Dream
From the frenetic, moody opening that is “I Want You to Love Me,” it’s clear that Fiona Apple is experiencing the same rat in a [Read More…]
The Gender Double Standard of Drinking in the 60s & Beyond
It was at the end of the 1960s that a staged protest by Betty Friedan and other feminist activists supporting the National Organization for Women [Read More…]
The Theory That We Are All In Some Version of David Fincher’s The Game Right Now
Of course, like any closed off, impossibly callous person, Nicholas van Orton (Michael Douglas) suffered an unforgettable trauma in his childhood: bearing witness to the [Read More…]
Glimmers of the “Old” Strokes, Like the “Old” New York, Still Fail to Capture A Certain Magic On The New Abnormal
For some reason or other, one of the many details that seems to be forgotten about The Strokes and how they came to “be” is [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #6: Architectural Digest Dropping Drake’s Mansion Photos When We’re All Trapped Inside In Our Respective Shittaytay
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture… and all that it affects. While celebrities [Read More…]
Was Fiona Apple Just Attempting to Self-Quarantine the Whole Time in “Criminal”?
In 1997, self-quarantining was essentially the norm for the suburban teenager. A role Fiona Apple plays to angst-ridden perfection (because, yes, people in their twenties [Read More…]
Empress Of Reaches Björk-Inspired Apex on I’m Your Empress Of
Five years after the release of her debut, Me (a generic title, but no more so than someone like Ariana Grande’s, with Yours Truly), her [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #5: Lindsay Lohan Is Still Staging “Comebacks” Centered Around “Letting Go” of the Past (When the Past Is the Only Thing That’s Still Kept Her Afloat)
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture… and all that it affects. Every time [Read More…]
“You Want a Dorito?” How The Doom Generation Captured the American Ability to File Away Trauma
If anyone has ever mastered the art of disaffection and its immortalization in the pop culture oeuvre, it’s Generation X. Or what Gregg Araki billed [Read More…]
