Category: Pop Culture
Lieutenant Dan: New Year’s Eve Mascot Extraordinaire
Over the course of recent years (namely 2020), Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) from Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump has become something of a cult hero, a [Read More…]
Insecure Becomes Its Most Sex and the City Yet
Although it would be deemed sacrilege by most women (Black or otherwise) to reduce Insecure to being “another Sex and the City” (when, in fact, [Read More…]
The End of Another Sagittarian Teen Dream
At age nineteen, nine months before she turned twenty in December of 2000, Christina Aguilera won the Grammy for Best New Artist. Usually a kiss [Read More…]
And Just Like That… Peloton Manages to Create Another Offensive Ad
What isn’t retroactively disgusting nowadays? Usually, however, it takes a little bit longer for something to become so icky. And yet, with the acceleration of [Read More…]
Advertising and Fan Fiction Soar to New Heights With Peloton and Mr. Big
It’s happened many times before, most recently with Timothée Chalamet playing the spawn of Edward Scisscorhands, Edgar Scissorhands, for the sake of promoting a self-driving [Read More…]
The Case for Miley Cyrus and Pete Davidson Being the New Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper When It Comes to Project Promotion
Whenever there is a project to promote in the entertainment industry, a time-honored way to “generate buzz” has always been to get people speculating whether [Read More…]
40 Times Britney Spears Embodied Being a Millennial Spokesperson
If anyone embodies the last time capitalism was really working on a peak “synergistic” level, it’s Britney Spears. In fact, for all this convenient repurposing [Read More…]
Betty Broderick and Patrizia Reggiani: Two Similarly Motivated Women When It Came to Killing Their Husbands, With the Former Being Portrayed as More Empathetic
As everyone continues to praise Lady Gaga for her horrendous accent in House of Gucci, there’s something else in her performance that audiences have unwittingly [Read More…]
Adele One Night Only: Ultimately, Her Music Still Reveals More About Her Than an Oprah Interview
Wielding the dramatic backdrop of Los Angeles (a city that surely understands the value of the cinematic), Griffith Park Observatory was the ideal location for [Read More…]
The Continued Wake-Up Call About Celebrity Worship and How Astroworld Proves “Stay at Home” is Forever Relevant
Although, with the “passage” of 2020 (which is never really over and has become something of an Overlook Hotel situation for us all), everyone wanted [Read More…]
