Category: Awards Shows
The Commendability of Ariana Grande Standing By Her Artistic Integrity in the Face of the Grammys’ Attempt to Dictate Her Performance
As the biggest pop star in the game right now, it seems more than a little foolish that the producer of the Grammys, Ken Ehrlich [Read More…]
Britney Spears Being Lauded Over Christina Aguilera at VMAs As Exemplification of People Preferring Trash
Thanks to Christina Aguilera’s appearance on Carpool Karaoke (will she ever recapture the magic of Stripped?), various channels of the internet are visiting their early [Read More…]
Awards Shows Continue to Suffer the Girls Effect (& Only Blue Ivy Seems to Notice)
Like a time when a woman could live scot-free in exchange for being verbally abused and cheated on, it’s hard to imagine an era in [Read More…]
Katy Perry Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop With Political Statements, This Time at the BRIT Awards
With a Grammy performance and now an even more politically charged music video for “Chained to the Rhythm,” Katy Perry wasn’t content to stop at [Read More…]
The Academy Shirks Inside Llewyn Davis: Here’s Why
The Academy generally likes to throw people a surprise to trick them into thinking the awards selection process is mildly discerning and unpredictable. However, this [Read More…]
The Discomfiture of the 2014 Golden Globes
There is no awards show like the Golden Globes. It does its best to hide behind a carefully cultivated veil of refinement, but glimpse briefly [Read More…]