Tag: Jack Antonoff
An Album for the Patrick Bateman Bros: Doja Cat Is An 80s Lady on Vie
After releasing the deliberately polarizing Scarlet in 2023 (followed by a reissue called Scarlet 2 Claude in 2024), Doja Cat seems to have done yet [Read More…]
Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend Is a Best Friend to Frustrated Women Everywhere
It took four albums for Sabrina Carpenter to truly hit her stride, to “find her niche,” arriving at just the right formula with 2022’s Emails I [Read More…]
Doja Cat Is An 80s Music Video Girl in “Jealous Type”
Like Charli XCX with her 2022 video for “Baby,” Doja Cat has been very inspired by the visual cachet of 1980s aesthetics for her new era. [Read More…]
Too Much (Of Lena Dunham Once Again Attempting “Realism”)
Although Lena Dunham hasn’t disappeared from the spotlight by any means in the years since Girls came out, there’s no denying her cachet has diminished since that [Read More…]
The Substance and “Margaret”
While Lana Del Rey couldn’t have possibly intuited that a very specific line in “Margaret,” one of the songs from her 2023 album, Did You Know [Read More…]
The Introvert’s Conundrum When Pitted Against the Extrovert’s Will
Taylor Swift did a couple things in the span of one award acceptance on Grammy night that elicited polarized reactions. And, considering that Swift, in [Read More…]
Margaret Qualley Serves Taylor Swift in “Delicate” for Bleachers’ “Tiny Moves” (Which Is Meta Because Taylor Swift Serves Margaret Qualley for “Delicate”)
Continuing to act as Jack Antonoff’s muse in multiple ways, Margaret Qualley makes a far more pronounced appearance in the latest Bleachers video than she [Read More…]
Bleachers’ “Alma Mater” Video Is Not As Lynchian As It Wants To Be
As the incestuously intertwined relationship between Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey and the former’s new wife, Margaret Qualley, intensifies, perhaps it’s to be expected that [Read More…]
No Sleep (Til Every Last Dollar Is Extracted): Taylor Swift Releases Midnights: The Til Dawn Edition—Oh, and Midnights: The Late Night Edition
For those who had gotten their rocks off on making various memes about Lana Del Rey’s barely detectable presence on what was supposed to be [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey’s “A&W”: It’s Not About Selling Root Beer, So Much As Selling Yourself
Considering Lana Del Rey’s history with shilling soda pop on the side (hear: “Diet Mountain Dew” and “Cola”), one’s initial assumption about a song title [Read More…]