Zach Bryan and Lana Del Rey’s “Lies” Flaunts Tinges of Taylor Swift and Bon Iver’s “Exile” and Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie”
As Lana Del Rey continues to release anything but her much talked-about tenth album, Stove (and now, its companion, Spyda), she instead keeps adding to [Read More…]
Ignoring the Whole “Inflation Thing,” Swarovski and Ariana Grande Try to Make Luxury Happen with Holiday Season-Themed “Joy” Commercial
As the collective unrest and general revolution around the world gains momentum, it seems in unusually poor taste to release a decadence- and “old school [Read More…]
The Years Later Release of Kesha’s “Backstabber” Video is a Glimpse Into the Very Lifestyle She Speaks on Throughout Her Animal/Cannibal Era
About four days before Kesha unleashed the “Backstabber” video from the proverbial vault, she began teasing some of its lyrics in captions underneath “sassy” photos [Read More…]
A Casual Contempt for Being Artistically Underlooked: Allie X’s “You Slept on Me” and Tinashe’s “Melatonin”
Perhaps, as an artist, the only thing more vexing than becoming famous after you’re dead is finding yourself perennially in the “bubbling under” category. For [Read More…]
Nobody Wants This, Season 3: Slightly Less Sex and the City, Continuously Apolitical
Although it seems, with time being as elastic as it is since Covid, as if Nobody Wants This has been on since before 2024, the [Read More…]
Allie X’s “Midnight for the Masses”: A Lament for the Collective Desire to Self-Numb
Continuing to channel some residual “Infant Marie energy” from 2025’s Happiness Is Going to Get You, Allie X has offered up her first single/new music [Read More…]
Veritable Shite: Verity
Perhaps it’s an indication from the very first moment that director Michael Showalter opts to open Verity with an exterior shot of Books Are Magic [Read More…]
A Casper Commercial That Suggests Capitalism is the Best Reason to Be Alive
In the 90s, when capitalism was still yielding “bounty” to slightly more than just a few (as exemplified by the McCallister abode in Home Alone), [Read More…]
Digger Realism: Is There No Alternative?
In the wake of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s eighth film, Digger, being branded as a total flop in the box office sense (since that’s the only [Read More…]
Britney Spears Takes the Message of “She’ll Never Be Me” to Heart and Calls Out the Pop Star Copycats of Today
In the increasingly common tradition of musicians (mostly pop stars) releasing anniversary editions of their albums (see also: Mariah Carey with the Glitter Soundtrack), Britney [Read More…]
