Tag: Marilyn Monroe
Lana Del Rey’s “Candy Necklace” Video Deliberately Blurs the Line Between Fantasy and Reality With Its Meta Framework
When an artist reaches a certain point in their career, self-reference can’t be avoided. In Lana Del Rey’s case, that tends to become quite a [Read More…]
Celluloid Immortality Doesn’t Make A Slow Career Death Any Less Painful: Babylon
There is Old Hollywood and then there is Germinal Hollywood (“Silent Era” Hollywood, if you prefer). The latter has been less a fascination in the [Read More…]
As Usual, Madonna Does It Better–Including Marilyn Drag
One atrocious tribute at the Met Gala, and now Kim’s name is automatically associated with Marilyn’s? Try staying committed to Marilyn drag your entire career. [Read More…]
Kim Said: First the Decimation of Jackie, Now Marilyn
In retrospect, Kim Kardashian going to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner just before the Met Gala, where she would don the “Marilyn dress” (of which [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #3: Madonna’s Lifelong Emulation of Marilyn Monroe
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. In one of many vignettes from Madonna’s early [Read More…]
American Fashion Is A Potato Sack
Of all the themes to come up with for a reentry into the “real world” red carpet (as opposed to the virtual one), it seems [Read More…]
The Reality Is, As a Twenty-Six Foot Statue in Palm Springs Or Not, Marilyn Was Still A Sex Symbol
She said it herself: “If I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather have it sex than some other things we’ve got symbols [Read More…]
If We Have to Use the Term “White Allyship” As Another Means to Praise Whites Let Us Also Study the Differences Between Marilyn Monroe/Ella Fitzgerald vs. Taylor Swift/Amira Rasool
Taylor Swift, for as much as she writes in her songs about being condemned and maligned by both the media and the diabolical force in [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…]
Bus Stop: A Film That Didn’t Do Justice to How Marilyn Monroe Fought to Break Free From the Studio’s Stereotype of Her, Nor Is It Much of an Acting Stretch From Her Own Life
Marilyn Monroe had spent months waiting out her unprecedented studio battle with 20th Century Fox. After fleeing to New York from Los Angeles like some [Read More…]
