Tag: Madonna Music
With She’s the Best, Troye Sivan Would Like to Prove He’s the Best…Male Pop Star on Offer at the Moment (And One Who’s Looking for “Ridiculous, Inconvenient, Consuming, Can’t-Live-Without-Each-Other Love”)
In 2023, the last time Troye Sivan released an album (namely, Something to Give Each Other), he was still in his twenties. In between that [Read More…]
Troye Sivan Makes the Middle Ages Seem Like Gay Heaven (Complete with a Madonna Sample) for the “Party” Video
Once again proving that he’s studied under the School of Brat (as also evidenced by “She’s the Best”), Troye Sivan’s second single from She’s the [Read More…]
Madonna and Kylie Minogue’s Collaboration on the “Love Sensation” Afterhours Mix is the Culmination of Years of Foreplay—Thus, What an (Ear) Orgasm!
The sexual tension, so to speak, between Madonna and Kylie Minogue has been simmering and sizzling since at least 2000 (though also long before, with [Read More…]
Madonna Goes All in on Recycling the Confessions on a Dance Floor Era for her World Cup Halftime Performance
There’s a reason Madonna was chosen as the first act to take the “stage” at the MetLife Stadium on July 19th for the first ever [Read More…]
On People Praising Madonna for Embracing “Nostalgia” with Confessions II
Maybe the most vexing thing about the near unanimous praise for Madonna’s fifteenth studio album, Confessions II, is that what people (especially critics) seem to [Read More…]
Madonna Is Still the Greatest Pop Star of the Twenty-First Century
While no one wants to hear this (least of all ageists or the Beyhive), Madonna remains, despite Billboard’s recent list to the contrary, the greatest pop [Read More…]
Madonna’s “American Pie” Video Is the Closest She’s Come to Identifying With/Admitting to Her “Average Americanness”
The Madonna we know today is one associated with glamor (and yes, that now extends to particularly expensive “beauty treatments”), with being “cosmopolitan.” Rarely, if [Read More…]
Madonna Ushered “Yeehaw Culture” Into the Mainstream
While the term “yeehaw culture” (an oxymoron if ever there was one) has only recently become a “trend” (along with the phrase “yeehaw agenda”), Madonna [Read More…]
Why Does It Take A Video of Madonna Doing Successive Jump Squats From Over Twenty Years Ago To Appreciate Her?
Being that there’s really no rhyme or reason to what might “take hold” with regard to virality on TikTok, one supposes it should be no [Read More…]
Every Madonna Song With Bull Imagery Is Taurus In Sentiment As All Get-Out
It began in 1994, of course, when Madonna and MTV joined forces (yet again) to air a making the video type special (before Making the [Read More…]
