Tag: Jack Antonoff
Florence + the Machine Gives Us (Dance) Fever
While some women are espousing motherhood in technologically-oriented ways, others are eschewing the practice altogether. This much is declared by Florence Welch on “King,” the [Read More…]
Stoned at the Nail Salon: Lorde’s “Way Existential” Rumination on “Aging”
Not taking a page from the pop star handbook that insists “produce, produce, produce” and “always stay in the spotlight lest they forget you” that [Read More…]
Singing Teen Girl Lyrics Thirteen Years On & Ironically Getting More Agency Out of It: Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
One wonders at times if there were several moments when Taylor Swift might have cringed throughout the re-recording of her 2008 sophomore album, Fearless. The [Read More…]
Chemtrails Over Taylor Swift’s Folkloric Country Club
Wasting no time in establishing that Chemtrails Over the Country Club is her “country-folk” album, and that she’s going to out-folk Taylor Swift’s folklore (also [Read More…]
A Car Crash: “Chemtrails Over the Country Club”
In an odd turn of events that, like bankruptcy, happened gradually then suddenly, Taylor Swift has managed to out-Lana Lana Del Rey, leaving the latter [Read More…]
“Let Me Love You Like A Human Being That Subscribes To Neither Gender Trope”
In a move that seems to continue to prove that Lana Del Rey doesn’t exactly have her finger on the pulse of what “the kids [Read More…]
“LA Who Am I To Love You” Is The Norma Jeane Baker Explanation For the Inexplicable Pull to the City Where People Will Never Say “Damaged” Like It’s A Bad Thing
As Lana Del Rey begins to roll out the audio for her spoken word poetry album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, while we await [Read More…]
(Mary) Magdalene, Queen of Catharsis: FKA Twigs’ Crawl Out of a Black Hole (Vaginal Pun Intended)
It’s almost cruelly fitting that depression is likened to being in a black hole and so, too, is it the place we all come out [Read More…]
Mourning the Death and Anticipating the Return of the “Great Artist” on Norman Fucking Rockwell
In some ways, Lana Del Rey did a disservice to herself in releasing so many of the tracks before the album release date of August [Read More…]
Move Over Robin Hood, Taylor Swift Hits The Emotionalism Target: “The Archer”
After a more than hackneyed attempt at being an LGBTQ ally by trying to reduce right-wing hate with the simple (and somehow more anger-inducing) “request,” [Read More…]
