Tag: Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake’s “Selfish” Reinforces “Romantic” Ideas of Toxic Masculinity When It Comes to Jealousy
Sometimes when a man does such a number on you, you still can’t help but want to be in his good graces even after all [Read More…]
Girls5eva De-glamorizes Late 90s/Early 00s Pop for a Tragicomic Effect
If anyone can get “complicated,” niche comedies greenlit, its executive producing duo Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. And while Girls5eva has the Fey stamp of [Read More…]
Framing Britney Spears Only Offers More of What We Already Know, While Shedding No Light On the Endless Amount That We Don’t
While many have been simply “agog” over a new episode–entitled “Framing Britney Spears”–of a show that no one previously watched before called The New York [Read More…]
Like Playing With Matches: Summoning Millennials With Britney Spears & Backstreet Boys
Because releasing “bonus tracks” for Glory has become some kind of compulsion for Britney Spears (perhaps she needs her own tailored version of the DSM)–in [Read More…]
Christina Aguilera’s Kiss With Madonna Basically Got Fucked Over Because of Patriarchal Editing
In August of 2003, everyone was talking about a single instant that would become one of the defining moments of pop culture history: Madonna kissing [Read More…]
What Goes Around Does Not Come Around: The Karma Imbalance of Britney and Justin
2006. It was a strange period in American history. TMZ had just started to go full steam ahead after being founded in ’05, Lindsay accordingly [Read More…]
Keep Your “Supplies,” Or: What the Fuck is Justin Timberlake Doing?
With what will soon amount to five albums in sixteen years, former boy band staple Justin Timberlake has never bothered to get very political, relying [Read More…]
Devil’s Advocate: Wonder Wheel Offers Shades of Tennessee Williams, Blue Jasmine
It has to be said that there is nary a favorable reception or assessment of Woody Allen these days (a light defense of Harvey Weinstein [Read More…]
Whether The NFL Admits It Or Not, There Is A Double Standard to Not Extending An Invitation to Janet Jackson to Perform at the Halftime Show
When Justin Timberlake takes the stage for the 2018 Super Bowl Halftime Show, it will have been fourteen years since the notorious nipplegate event that [Read More…]
If You Were Justin Timberlake Being Sold on NYC by Mila Kunis in Friends With Benefits
Perhaps the most vexing element about 2011’s Friends With Benefits isn’t that another similarly premised film, No Strings Attached, came out the same year or [Read More…]
