Tag: pop stars
For the Broke Asses in the Ultra Cheap Seats: The Eras Tour in Movie Format Makes It Clear That Taylor Swift Is Still the Apolitical “Good Girl”
Billed instantly as a “three-hour career-spanning victory lap,” Taylor Swift’s sixth tour is, needless to say, her most ambitious yet. Part of that ambitiousness has [Read More…]
Between Anitta’s “Use To Be” and Miley Cyrus’ “Used To Be Young,” It Has to Be Asked: Are the Thirty-Something Women Okay, Perception-Wise?
There was a minute there when it seemed like society, or at least the representation of it through pop culture, had come a long way [Read More…]
Amid Comparisons to Madonna and Michael Jackson, It’s Worth Reminding That Taylor Has Never “Ate”
As Taylor Swift continues to dominate the global conversation thanks to the Eras Tour (still not as record-shattering as the Renaissance Tour though), the comparison [Read More…]
Unlike Most Women in Music, Tony Bennett Didn’t Have to Constantly Change His Image In Order to Endure
“I was like the Madonna and the Michael Jackson of my day,” Tony Bennett once told Conan O’Brien during a 1993 interview. The notable distinction [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam” Proves That Madonna Absorbed the Critical Vitriol for Other 50+ Pop Stars So They Could Keep Talking Like Teens and Twenty-Somethings in Their Songs at Any Age
As the discussion continues about whether or not “middle age” really exists anymore, among the many pop stars to benefit from the decision that it [Read More…]
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…]
Raffaella non è la tua bambarella: On The World’s First Feminist Pop Star
Some icons are made, and others are born. Raffaella Carrà seemed to fall into the latter category. Like she was shot out of her mother’s [Read More…]
(Sweet &) Sour: Olivia Rodrigo’s Debut Is A Teenage Elegy
The thing Olivia Rodrigo has been praised for repeatedly since the monumental and continuing success of “drivers license” is her unique ability to speak to [Read More…]
So You Wanna Keep Dredging Up “Vintage” Instances of Women Being Abused by the Media?: Look at Madonna
Madonna long ago knew that she would not have the same kind of worshipful fame as Marilyn Monroe. Or any other “tragic” figure typically martyred [Read More…]
