Tag: quarantine
Locked Down: A Narrative Thread as Tenuous as Lockdown Orders Themselves
As Locked Down continues to receive some harsh criticism, including the decree that it’s not the pandemic movie we needed (apparently, only Contagion can still [Read More…]
Five Years Later, It’s Easy To See The Quarantine Vibes of Adele’s “Hello”
Five years ago, which now somehow feels like twenty, Adele graced us with the first single from what was her third album, 25–reportedly the last [Read More…]
The Staff of Life: A Theory on the Mass Urge to Bake Bread in Quarantine (in America)
In Henry Miller’s damning second volume of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, a way ahead of its time indictment of America and its priorities, there is a [Read More…]
Ellie Goulding Shows It Takes Being Vulnerable to Have “Power,” Even While in Quarantine
Filmed by “E.G.” goes the “warning,” of sorts, at the beginning of Ellie Goulding’s latest video following the March release of “Worry About Me” featuring [Read More…]
“In Real Life, Could The Club Even Handle Us?”: Charli XCX’s How I’m Feeling Now Highlights Creativity and Expression in Quarantine Being More Uninhibited Than in the Outside World
Instantly establishing the thematic precedent for a record that has stemmed from the highly unique scenario of being quarantined (sometimes politely phrased as a “stay-at-home [Read More…]
Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s “Stuck With U” Basically Says “Surrender Dorothy” With Regard to Settling For the One You’re With
Amid the ever-growing trend of the home video look taking hold of the content in pop culture that we have no choice but to watch [Read More…]
“I Finally Understand” Lends The Prodigy Flair to Charli XCX’s Oeuvre
Continuing to unveil more finished tracks as we approach May 15, the release of Charli XCX’s “quarantine album,” How I’m Feeling Now, the British pop [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s “Claws” Video: Like “Spicy” But Out of Necessity
If one recalls back to what feels like the oh so long ago year of 2019, one might be able to dig up from the [Read More…]
Madness Grows in Isolation–And Also In Company: Grey Gardens Through the Quarantine Lens
Little Edie, of course, was slightly more averse to staying confined, noting from the vantage point of her “youth,” “I suppose I won’t get out [Read More…]
Beyoncé One-Ups Megan Thee Stallion on “Savage” Remix
Never one to be outdone by anyone, least of all a fellow Texan, Beyoncé has joined forces with Megan Thee Stallion for a remix of [Read More…]
