Category: Pop Culture
An Amalgam of 00s Tabloid Stars Makes the Case for a Lack of Feminine Agency in Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity From Popular Culture
Perhaps the most grim of realities are best expressed by puppets (via stop-motion animation, in this case). Filmmaker Nicole Brending likely knew that harsh truths [Read More…]
Lourdes Leon Makes The Most Gen Z Ad Yet–Which Is A Dichotomy Because Much of It Is Pulled From the Madonna (A Baby Boomer) Playbook
While “Lola” might be on the borderline of the generation we’ve come to call Z, her birth year of 1996 makes her amply attuned to [Read More…]
There Still Remains No More Uncomfortable Moment in Recent Cinema History Than When Liza Minnelli Materialized in Sex and the City 2 to Sing “Single Ladies”
For whatever reason, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” remains one of Beyoncé’s biggest hits despite the fact that it is one of her [Read More…]
We Must Always Remember Even the Gods Are Capable of Frailty, Or: Beyoncé’s Dalliance With Sisqó
We know, we know: Beyoncé is a goddess. Yet that doesn’t mean she doesn’t possess the frailty of an average human. For even goddesses have [Read More…]
If We Have to Use the Term “White Allyship” As Another Means to Praise Whites Let Us Also Study the Differences Between Marilyn Monroe/Ella Fitzgerald vs. Taylor Swift/Amira Rasool
Taylor Swift, for as much as she writes in her songs about being condemned and maligned by both the media and the diabolical force in [Read More…]
My Covid Story: Lena Dunham’s Next Memoir
One supposes it was only a matter of time before Lena Dunham came out of the woodwork to attempt toppling Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson [Read More…]
Black Is King: A Consummation of Beyoncé’s Previous Visual Albums
As someone who invented the concept of the surprise album drop (sorry Taylor) and the visual accompaniment that goes with it, Beyoncé altered music history [Read More…]
“LA Who Am I To Love You” Is The Norma Jeane Baker Explanation For the Inexplicable Pull to the City Where People Will Never Say “Damaged” Like It’s A Bad Thing
As Lana Del Rey begins to roll out the audio for her spoken word poetry album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, while we await [Read More…]
Elon Musk Has Taken Away Grimes’ Futuristic Steez With His Rendering of Her As a Scullery Maid
In the separate contagion that has spread solely between Kanye West and Elon Musk, the latter has also been embroiled in some Twitter drama with [Read More…]
Britney Spears: A Fondness For Repetitive Images That Would Have Been Warhol’s Wet Dream
As followers of Britney Spears’ Instagram account continue to take her repetitious postings with a grain of salt, apart from the growing concern for her [Read More…]
