“Yes, And?” Video Pays Unexpected Tribute to Paula Abdul’s “Cold Hearted”
“I miss the old Ari. You know, the singer.” So says one of the many invitees (all critics) to Ariana Grande’s performance art piece in [Read More…]
Madonna and Improv Influence Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?”
For a minute there, Ariana Grande had a reputation for releasing new music as frequently as Rihanna once did (the singer-turned-makeup mogul could formerly be [Read More…]
Gen Z Is to Cady Heron as Millennials Are to Regina George, Or: Does Mean Girls 2024 Make Gen Z the New Queen Bee? Hardly.
For those who applaud it, any contempt expressed for the latest iteration of Mean Girls is likely to be met with the ageist rebuke of [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Takes A Joke Too Seriously Again
Although no one can really say that Jo Koy’s monologue during the intro to the 2024 Golden Globes was exactly “bangin’”—filled as it was with [Read More…]
The 2024 Golden Globes Does What It Can to Keep Itself on the Train Track
The Golden Globes is no stranger to being riddled with scandal. Even in the 1950s, when it was still a relatively germinal organization (with the [Read More…]
Night of the Living Dead Offers a Prime Commentary on How Paying Respect to the Dead Is A Toll on the Living
As the conversation escalates about what to do with “all these dead bodies” in a world with increasingly less space, one can’t help but look [Read More…]
Reneé Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Not My Fault” Seeks to Vindicate Regina George For Being a Bitch
Just as Regina George likely would have been praised for her burgeoning badonkadonk had the original been made in the present, so, too, would she [Read More…]
Oliver Quick Joins the Millennial “Villain” Hall of Fame
While pop culture has been eager to put a spotlight on a number of real-life millennial villains (including Mark Zuckerberg via The Social Network, Elizabeth [Read More…]
Play Misty For Me: The California Blueprint for Fatal Attraction
Although the era of “free love” that commenced in the 1960s was initially looked upon by men with salivation over the opportunity to “get the [Read More…]
The Naive Hope Invoked by a New Year As Presented by Counting Crows’ “A Long December”
In the winter of 1996, the Counting Crows’ lead singer Adam Duritz composed the lyrics for a song that would be called “A Long December,” [Read More…]
