Category: Music
Shygirl and Saweetie Birth “Immaculate” (A Song, Not A Collection)
Madonna might have released The Immaculate Collection (a riff, obviously, on “the immaculate conception”) in 1990, but she surprisingly never did offer a song called [Read More…]
Tinashe Brings It On In Her Update to TLC’s “No Scrubs,” “No Broke Boys”
Cardi B might have recently reiterated, “Broke boys don’t deserve no pussy (I know that’s right!),” but it was TLC who helmed that message best [Read More…]
Dom Dolla and Tove Lo’s “Cave”: A Vampire’s Anthem in Time For Spooky Season
Still fresh off bringing the heat from her EP of the same name, Tove Lo has nonetheless graced her fandom with yet another danceable ditty. [Read More…]
FKA Twigs’ “Perfect Stranger” Offers Only Pros to Meeting Strangers, While Madonna’s “Beautiful Stranger” Is More Cautiously Aroused
Madonna as the titular character in Desperately Seeking Susan once said, “Good going, stranger.” It seemed, in its odd way, to presage a song of [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Lets Her Projections Run Wild on “Perfect Stranger”
The theme of projection in romance seems to be trending at the moment. At least if one takes Dua Lipa’s “Illusion,” Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie [Read More…]
Dionysus Beware: Party Girl Gods Charli XCX and Kesha Finally Join Forces
Perhaps saving the best for last in terms of who she wanted to unveil as a collaborator on her Brat remix album, Charli XCX has [Read More…]
“ADHD” According to Paris Hilton: “That’s Hot”
Building on the growing arsenal of singles and videos that Paris Hilton has thus far released from her second album, Infinite Icon, “ADHD” marks the [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s Most Ambitious “Mixtape” Yet: Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat
Being that the intention of Brat was always to get back to Charli XCX’s musical roots (especially after her intentionally hyper-commercial album, Crash), it seemed [Read More…]
Madonna Endures a New Era of Survivor’s Guilt
Throughout her life, Madonna has frequently talked about having survivor’s guilt. Namely, when it comes to all the people she lost in the 1980s to [Read More…]
Beyond Brat Summer, Or: Why It Was A Summer of Americana Via The Bikeriders and “Tough”
In many ways, Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders and Lana Del Rey x Quavo’s “Tough” achieve the same dichotomous thing: acknowledging the death of what America [Read More…]
