Category: Pop Culture
Patriarchy Is… Bill Cosby Being Released the Same Day Britney Spears Is Denied Some Form of Freedom
As Olivia Rodrigo recently said in song form, “It’s always one step forward and three steps back.” That statement never seemed to be more apropos [Read More…]
On Being An OG and Trying to Make “Fun” Happen in New York
Madonna, a bona fide OG of the era in New York that people still most romanticize—the 80s—has been unable to avoid trying to recapture the [Read More…]
Britney Ran So Younger Generations Could Smoke Joints Onstage
Among the seemingly infinite number of comments that stood out during Britney Spears’ June 23rd testimony regarding her conservatorship, one that rang especially true was [Read More…]
In Many Ways, It Could Have Just As Easily Been Amy Winehouse or Lindsay Lohan Who Got Slapped With a Conservatorship At the Height of Mid-00s Witch Hunts Persecuting “Good Time Girls”
When examining just how arbitrary “destiny” can be, it’s easy to retrospectively remark upon how Britney Spears was a victim not just of her own [Read More…]
The Masses Are Blind No More to the Shining Brilliance of Paris Hilton’s “Stars Are Blind”
It started in 2020. No, not talking about rona. But rather, the “rediscovery” of “Stars Are Blind” with the release of Promising Young Woman. Although [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Is A Jobist
Despite the increasingly worn-down veneer of what “work” is supposed to “mean” in a post-COVID world, Billie Eilish, that ever-increasingly normie Gen Zer/goy toy, has [Read More…]
Anita Is Estella and Cruella Is Baroness in 1996’s 101 Dalmatians
The Devil Wears Prada angle of Cruella might, for many, be seen as “new” in terms of approaching the world of Cruella de Vil, but [Read More…]
Unabashed White Parade That Makes No Acknowledgement of Some Glaring Issues: Friends: The Reunion
We knew, of course, that any “reunion” (a.k.a. a payout opportunity of 2.5 million dollars each) with the cast of Friends was bound to be, [Read More…]
A Certain Foreshadowing Re: Britney Spears Auditioning for the Part of a Woman Who Ends Up Developing Dementia
Despite the information being well-trodden at this juncture, we all know by now that everything old can be made new again. So it is that [Read More…]
“Sun Goes Down” and Yes, Daddy: Two Pop Cultural Moments That Prove Growing Up With Religious Rhetoric Still Leads to Gay Repression and Lifelong Trauma
In the past week, two significant releases have occurred in the gay pantheon. One has been slightly more under the radar than Lil Nas X’s [Read More…]
