Category: Pop Culture
“My face is the real shop front”: Pepsi and Nike, Madonna and Lil Nas X
Not to make everything about Madonna (it simply is) in terms of her controversy parallels with Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” [Read More…]
Thanks to Lucille Bluth, Jessica Walter Will Forever Be A California Girl
Despite being born and dying in New York (which is just so…New York, by the way), Jessica Walter’s most iconic and memorable role—occurring in the [Read More…]
The Reality Is, As a Twenty-Six Foot Statue in Palm Springs Or Not, Marilyn Was Still A Sex Symbol
She said it herself: “If I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather have it sex than some other things we’ve got symbols [Read More…]
Megan Thee Stallion As Regina George Subverts a Common “Tradition”
The so-called subversion that occurs when a Black person takes on the persona of a white character is not something discussed very often. Mainly because [Read More…]
Meghan As Ariel, And Achieving A Freedom Diana Never Could
In some (emphasis on some) ways, Meghan had it much worse than Diana during her short stint as a royal. But in the most important [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Needs to Calm Down Re: Ginny & Georgia
Because the power of Taylor Swift can result in getting a show “bad review bombed” after she expresses extreme disapproval, it bears noting that Ginny [Read More…]
Diana Spears
As the public continues to be shocked by both itself (and what it was once game to accept–but also will be again due to renewed [Read More…]
So You Wanna Keep Dredging Up “Vintage” Instances of Women Being Abused by the Media?: Look at Madonna
Madonna long ago knew that she would not have the same kind of worshipful fame as Marilyn Monroe. Or any other “tragic” figure typically martyred [Read More…]
The Zone: Closing Ceremony for Earth
On January 31st, 2020, The Zone, an interactive Britney Spears experience in a 30,000-square-foot repurposed K-Mart opened to the public. The brainchild of Jeff Delson [Read More…]
Elizabeth Hurley’s Mom Is the New Mrs. George
Even though it is, by now, in this epoch called “Thirst Trap,” the norm that daughters wield their mothers for the purpose of heightening their [Read More…]
