“2019 Me”: Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft Shares Deliberate DNA With When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
In the almost three full years since Billie Eilish released her sophomore album, Happier Than Ever, the world has only gotten a little more blurry, [Read More…]
Two Different Emotional Approaches to the Aftermath of “Homewrecking”: Sabrina Carpenter’s “because i liked a boy” and Ariana Grande’s “yes, and?”
As two pop stars often compared on a vocal level, it’s also no surprise that Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande tend to have overlapping themes [Read More…]
Megan Thee Stallion Keeps Up Her Snake Motif With “BOA,” A Pro-Gwen Stefani, Anti-TikTok Single
Either Megan Thee Stallion is in bed with the U.S. government, or she’s genuinely sick of TikTok and the low-grade “talent” it furnishes. Whatever the [Read More…]
What Continues to Stand Out at Every Basquiat x Warhol Exhibition is How Each Artist Gleefully Exploited the Other
Every so often, a museum dredges up the collaboration that occurred between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1985. Most recently, that museum was Fondation [Read More…]
A Bitch and A Girl and A Mother and A Whore: Julia Fox Takes A Page From Meredith Brooks Re: the Multifaceted Nature of Being A Woman
In 1997, Meredith Brooks single-handedly reminded the masses that women were far more than just one convenient label (most often: “Mother”…or, worse still, “Homemaker”). That [Read More…]
An Ode to It Girls and Sociopathy: Charli XCX’s “360”
In Madonna’s seminal 1990 hit, “Vogue,” she talks about how Rita Hayworth “gave good face.” That’s at least eighty percent of the “job” description of [Read More…]
From “I Kissed A Girl” to “Good Luck, Babe!”: Queer Yearning and Regret Gets A More Layered and Genuine Upgrade in Pop Song Form
In 2008, Katy Perry caught her big break with “I Kissed A Girl” (made all the more retroactively cringe because Dr. Luke co-produced it). After [Read More…]
The Idea of You Is No Threat to Notting Hill or Even Music and Lyrics
For those who didn’t think (or believe it possible) that there was such a thing as a “Coachella rom-com,” The Idea of You is here [Read More…]
“These Gays, They’re Trying to Murder Me”: How Tanya’s Plotline in The White Lotus Speaks to Gay Male Misogyny
Being that viewers will likely continue to reel from the season two finale of The White Lotus for years to come, it bears noting that [Read More…]
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” Mimics the Frothiness of Selena Gomez’s “Love On”
While Sabrina Carpenter might not have written a song about cappuccino, “Espresso” has plenty of (sonic) froth to offer. And it’s of the variety that [Read More…]
