Innovation Stalls on Midnights As Taylor Swift Does A Lot of 2012-Era Musical Recycling While Joe Alwyn Remains Her Eternal Muse

While most insomniacs would settle for watching TV all night, Taylor Swift has shown us yet again just how “Type A” she can be by [Read More…]

Too Much Trauma Shield: Britney’s Seeming Immunity to Critiques of Environmentally-Damaging Displays of Wealth

Amid Taylor Swift’s placement on the slow-burning pyre for being the celebrity with the highest amount of carbon emissions this year, other stars of every [Read More…]

Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” is a Continuation of the Folklore/Evermore Tradition–But Also the Iconic Soundtrack Song Tradition

Here and there, one notices a re-commitment to the film soundtrack that was once a constant. But with the decline of cinema as an “event” [Read More…]

Anitta’s “Boys Don’t Cry” Corroborates Taylor’s Adage, “Boys Only Want Love If It’s Torture”

Unlike Camila Cabello’s own recent track called “Boys Don’t Cry” from Familia, one of Anitta’s many hits from Versions of Me is not about the [Read More…]

Abercrombie & Suburban Repression: Abercrombie & Fitch: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie Explores a Millennial Staple That Made Everyone Look Like a Douche Even At Its Peak

As one of the many offerings of late favoring 00s-based nostalgia, Senior Year shows its main character, Stephanie Conway (Rebel Wilson), waking up from a [Read More…]

Florence + the Machine’s “King” One-Ups “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” on the Feminist Anthem Front, But Is Still Hemmed In By the Limits of a Patriarchal Language

It’s been four years since Florence + the Machine came out with High As Hope, the band’s fourth record released over a nine-year period. If [Read More…]

Jake Gyllenhaal’s Claim Regarding Red (Taylor’s Version) Sparks the Query: Is It Less Satisfying to Know the Ex You Targeted in Your Art Will Never “Receive” the Work?

In a new Esquire cover story, “Jake Gyllenhaal Reconsiders” or, in print format, “Jake Gyllenhaal Is Not the Man You Think He Is,” the eponymous [Read More…]