Tag: pop culture
TV’s Best Thanksgiving Episodes
Even for the most adamant haters of Thanksgiving (see: Chandler Bing), one can always take comfort in enjoying the crème de la crème of television [Read More…]
Britney Spears’ “Born to Make You Happy” As The Ultimate 1950s Anthem for Women
Where ballads about romance are concerned, Britney Spears has never been in short supply. Her first album, …Baby One More Time, was an exemplar of [Read More…]
Does An Obsession With Pop Culture Connote Godlessness?
The easy answer: Yes. To be without religion doesn’t mean you’re without a subject to worship. And the subject that’s most easily accessible is pop [Read More…]
Like A Virgin: Donna Martin and the 90s Quest for Some Vestige of Chastity
By the time the repressed vibe of the Reagan and Bush eras had concluded in the United States, the 90s saw a resurgence in sexual [Read More…]
Trying to Find Meaning in Britney and Kevin: Chaotic
Cher Horowitz may have once thought finding meaning in a Pauly Shore movie was the ultimate challenge, but, at that point, Britney and Kevin: Chaotic [Read More…]
Diary of Britney Spears: Pinpointing Signs of a Breakdown
If you’re on the older side of a millennial (forgive me for use of the term), you will undoubtedly remember when a show called Diary [Read More…]
Is Fran Kubelik More Whore than Mistress?
One of Billy Wilder’s most beloved characters, Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), has often been pegged as the type of girl looking for love in all [Read More…]
Desperately Seeking Tweet
That Southern Hummingbird we all came to know and love after she released the single, “Oops (Oh My),” in 2002 has seemingly vanished. Tweet (who [Read More…]
Why Carrie Bradshaw Will Likely Always Maintain “Icon” Status
It may have once been emphatically said that “Carrie Bradshaw knows good sex (*and isn’t afraid to ask),” but, in retrospect, it wasn’t her sex [Read More…]
Peaches Geldof: The Death of a Socialite
Being the daughter of someone famous doesn’t always necessarily make you famous (see: Lucie Arnaz). It does, in fact, require a certain amount of joie [Read More…]