The Mainstream (Or at Least Mainstream Music) Is Getting Weirder: Charli XCX’s “House” and Lana Del Rey’s “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter”
Perhaps it was inevitable that the women behind two of the weirdest songs to be released in the past six months would be none other [Read More…]
The Lana Del Rey-ness of Slayyyter’s Worst Girl in America Album Trailer
As a relatively recent phenomenon, an album trailer can generate just as much interest and excitement for a musician’s record as a movie trailer can [Read More…]
A Semi-Ordinary Man in an Extraordinary Situation: Project Hail Mary
As many a space movie has revealed in the past, audiences love a story with an “ordinary man in an extraordinary situation” premise. Project Hail [Read More…]
The 2026 Oscars Offers Some Levity During a Dark Historical Moment
Whenever “times is tough,” it always seems as though arts and entertainment are thrown under the bus more than usual for being “frivolous” and ultimately [Read More…]
When the Robots Become More Human Than the Humans: Paris Jackson’s “Zombies in Love” Video
Back from outer space, so to speak, Paris Jackson has reemerged to deliver “Zombies in Love,” her first single since 2023. And, like the sound [Read More…]
Lykke Li Says What You Already Know to Be True: This Life is a “Knife in the Heart”
Although it would have been enough for Lykke Li to only release “Lucky Again” as a single before the release of The Afterparty in May, [Read More…]
Robyn Pulls a St. Vincent By Re-Recording and Changing the Sound of “Blow My Mind” for Sexistential
For a while there, it seemed like St. Vincent would never stop recording different versions of her 2017 track from Masseduction, “Slow Disco.” She offered [Read More…]
The Problem(s) With Calling a Movie That Makes Millions of Dollars “Dead on Arrival”
From the moment The Bride! landed in theaters, it was branded as “dead on arrival” (yes, a “cute” phrase aimed at the Frankenstein element of [Read More…]
Lindsay Lohan Long Ago Wrote A Song That Expressed How Chappell Roan Feels About Fame
While Chappell Roan seems to think that she’s the only one who has ever suffered the ills and rigors of what it means to be [Read More…]
Hoppers: A Much-Needed Advocate for “Nature Connectedness” Being Imparted to New Generations
A movie like Hoppers arrives at an apropos moment in human history. One in which it’s been said that “human connection to nature has declined [Read More…]
