With “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” Ariana Grande Offers a Song That Could Have Been Written From Taylor Swift’s Perspective

After rightfully prolonging the Eternal Sunshine era (complete with releasing the deluxe edition a year after the original version of the album), and then (/in [Read More…]

The “Elizabeth Taylor” Video Only Serves to Remind That Taylor Swift is Trying to Shape the Screen Legend into the Image of Her Own Narrative

In falsely fancying herself as an Elizabeth Taylor type (at least in spirit if not in looks), perhaps it was inevitable that Taylor Swift (whose [Read More…]

Hilary Duff’s Comeback Success Has Nothing to Do With Luck (…Or Something) and Everything to Do With the Same Earnestness That Established Her Career to Begin With

The last time Hilary Duff released an album, it was just days before anyone knew that Donald Trump would make his intentions to run for [Read More…]

Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” Video: Another Example of How Everything Has to Be a Reference (Especially to Something Esoteric, Like a Graham Norton Show Episode)

Maybe the only thing that “come[s] back stronger than a 90s trend” (as it was said on 2020’s “Willow”) is Taylor Swift with a new [Read More…]

Hilary Duff’s “Roommates” Is a Lament for the Honeymoon Phase (Both of a Relationship and Life)

As Hilary Duff gives another auditory snapshot of what to expect from sixth album, Luck… or Something, “Roommates” provides a marked thematic contrast to the [Read More…]

When It Comes to the Rockumentary Genre, The End of an Era Ain’t It—Truth Or Dare (and I’m Going to Tell You a Secret) Still Is

As if knowing, on some level, that she would need a form of “insurance” to make it so that the masses would remember “Taylor Swift” [Read More…]

Reminder: Just Because Taylor Swift Got “Bot Bombarded” With Negative Commentary About “Promoting Nazi Ideas” Doesn’t Make The Life of a Showgirl Any Less, Well, Schlocky

The Swifties probably haven’t had this much of a field day with feeling validated since it was revealed that Kim Kardashian “doctored” the recording of [Read More…]