Tag: Madonna
If You Need a Hit, Robyn’s Gonna Give You It With “Dopamine”
Well before Lily Allen and Lorde were disappearing from music for long stretches of time (though the latter never extends her absence past four years), [Read More…]
Udo Kier’s “Mainstream” Pinnacle: Madonna’s “Deeper and Deeper” Video
Having appeared in movies with titles like Life is Too Long and Swan Song, it was always apparent that Udo Kier didn’t tremble in the [Read More…]
Madonna’s Reanimation of Confessions on a Dance Floor for a “Twenty Years Edition” Isn’t Reflective of the Luster and Excitement Surrounding Its Original Release
As Madonna starts to get back into the mode of “feeding” her audience “properly,” she’s been breadcrumbing a few “new old” releases over the course [Read More…]
Let the Lux In: ROSALÍA Translates the Divine into Sonic Form
There’s an obvious reason that none other than Madonna herself felt compelled to post about the “visionary” nature of ROSALÍA’s fourth album, Lux. Apart from [Read More…]
MTV Makes Its Lack of Music Official
Although MTV’s “content” focus has been reality TV and other adjacent schlock for many years now, those who remember it as the place to go [Read More…]
Mariah Carey Is Here For It All—But Mainly Shade-Throwing and Throwing It Back
Though it goes without saying, Mariah Carey has no “need” to ever release another album of new music again if she doesn’t feel like it. [Read More…]
There Would Be No “Bad Girl” Video Without Diane Keaton
Of all Madonna’s many videos, perhaps one of the most standout (while still being simultaneously underrated) for its cinematic qualities is 1993’s “Bad Girl.” And [Read More…]
Comparing Madonna’s “Right On Time” to the Nature of Some of Taylor Swift’s Recent Lyrical Offerings
At a time when Taylor Swift’s lyrics have never been so glaringly cringe, Madonna, funnily enough, chose to release one of her own “From the [Read More…]
MARINA May Be the First Female Pop Star to Freely Let Go of “Girlhood”
For the past few years, MARINA has been living out the lyrics of her lead single from Princess of Power, “Butterfly.” Slowly changing shape inside [Read More…]
Madonna Chooses the Right Time to Release “Right On Time”—Because It Would Have Been a Disservice for Her to Include It on Bedtime Stories in 1994
On the same day as announcing that her Bedtime Stories: The Final Chapter EP is actually real, and not just another tease (like, thus far, her much-talked [Read More…]
