Tag: Madonna
Olivia Newton-John As Blueprint for the Late Twentieth Pop Star
With her tan complexion, blue eyes and sandy blonde hair, Olivia Newton-John personified the “all-American girl” despite being an English lass of Jewish descent who [Read More…]
Sandy Olsson Taught Us: Be What He Wants You To Be
It’s been a common trope for such an interminable eon that, even now, we scarcely “overthink” it. View the requisite female makeover of any rom-com, [Read More…]
Pillaging Loot That’s Already Been Plundered: On Beyoncé Doing Madonna
“The loot we pillaged had been plundered.” It’s one of the most indelible lines from Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Gay Bar. An aphorism that speaks to [Read More…]
Madonna Reinforces an Increasingly Anachronistic Message on an Updated “Material Gworl”
Madonna has been quite busy repackaging her music this week. In addition to proving that Beyoncé is just as much of an opportunist (frequently posing [Read More…]
The Weeknd and Radiohead Are of the Belief That If It’s An Animated Music Video, It Ought to Be As Fucked Up As Possible
As The Weeknd seeks to expand the universe of Dawn FM into the animated realm, he picks up the expectedly surreal (especially for anyone who [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Clearly Brushed Up on Her Herb Ritts Music Videos (And Then Added in a Sprinkle of Flashdance) for “Killer”
Back to giving us “normal-length” videos after her TikTok-length slew of Caprivids, FKA Twigs doesn’t disappoint with her return to the screen. This time, the [Read More…]
Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” Calls For the Type of Action That Many Can’t Take
With an opening that is instantly identifiable to any 90s music scholar as Robin S.’ “Show Me Love” (which Charli XCX also recently took to [Read More…]
J. Lo’s Halftime Is A Hodgepodge That Accents Her “Britney Treatment” in the 00s
The music documentary, or “rockumentary,” usually tends to focus on a particular tour that the musician in question is on. As a genre fine-tuned by [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey Balking at the Cedric Gervais Remix As Compared to Madonna Seizing the Opportunity to Capitalize on the Sickick Remix
Long ago, in a time called 2012, Lana Del Rey was actually even more polarizing to people than when she offered up that apropos-of-nothing “question [Read More…]
On How Sean and Madonna Should Have Starred in Blind Date Instead of Shanghai Surprise
Blind Date is one of many 80s movies that serves as more of a footnote in pop culture than a “main event” (à la E.T. [Read More…]
