Category: Pop Culture
Paris Hilton Relies on a Tried-and-True Persona for Cooking With Paris, But Profligacy Is No Longer “Cute”
Painting herself evermore into the generational corner of “millennial icon,” Paris Hilton has found a new and particular way to make herself rather odious to [Read More…]
Cooking With Paris’ “Italian Night” Episode: A Study in How Money Can’t Buy Cultural Knowledge
There are, unsurprisingly, many issues with Paris Hilton’s latest foray into reality TV, Cooking With Paris, foremost of which is its proud parading of profligacy. [Read More…]
“Happier Than Ever” As A Combination of “drivers license” and “good 4 u”
As Billie Eilish’s sole peer at the moment (though we can count Griff, one supposes), it’s difficult to know if Olivia Rodrigo was influenced by [Read More…]
Bennifer and Netflix’s Dark: A Time Loop Correlation
Not that anyone needed further proof that the current form of existence is some kind of conspiracy/matrix-oriented operation, but Bennifer 2.0 seems to want to [Read More…]
Bennifer Is Giving Us an Homage-Drenched Sequel, But It Isn’t to Gigli So Much As a Visual Representation of This Is Me… Then
Nodding to the paparazzi shots and semiotics that comprised their short-lived romance from 2002 to 2004, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck seem to be trolling [Read More…]
“A perfect storm of sex kitten, raw talent and poor impulse control”: Amy Winehouse Was Given the Britney Treatment in the UK
Although L.A. is its own microcosm of paparazzi constantly trolling for the next humiliating candid photo, the UK (which just looks better without periods between [Read More…]
Black Widow and Its Parallel to Britney Spears’ Conservatorship
It seems almost too perfectly timed that a Black Widow script about male manipulation and mind control over women should come out the same year [Read More…]
Celebrity Sympathy Is The New Black
It wouldn’t be right to say celebrity “empathy” is the new black, for that would entail “normals” could actually put themselves in the (Louboutin) shoes [Read More…]
No Independence Day for Britney
You know things have reached a new crescendo of injustice when Ronan Farrow decides to report on the matter. Which is precisely what he just [Read More…]
Still Trying to Compute Ed Sheeran Being A Party Boy
Beyond just being a ginger with a flavor for non-Caucasian women (as evidenced by his music videos and past trysts), Ed Sheeran conjures an easy [Read More…]
