Tag: Genna Rivieccio
The Implications of Quentin Tarantino Having A Child
Just when you thought there was for once, at least one man in this world who could be content enough to ride on the laurels [Read More…]
Courtney Love Against the Riot Grrrls: An Indelible Moment In Not Pandering to Requisite “Female Solidarity”
Over the decades, perhaps no feminist has gotten as much heat for being an antagonistic “trainwreck” (the go-to term people like to use to discredit [Read More…]
“Throw It Back” Video & Subsequent VMAs Performance Show and Tell Why Missy Elliott Is Still Inimitable
There was a moment when the world of post-00s hip hop felt particularly dark in its decided voidness. It happened around 2005, when Missy Elliott [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Is Probably More Feminist Than Simone De Beauvoir For Debunking the Tragedian Myth of the Stripper
The notion of the stripper as slut (ergo “fallen woman”) has long been the well-established male narrative regarding the (often, believe it or not, underpaid) [Read More…]
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…]
