David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray’s “Baby Don’t Hurt Me” Pays More Homage to A Night at the Roxbury Than Haddaway
As the latest in an increasingly long line (no nightclub pun intended) of songs that have seen fit to extract 90s dance hits for a [Read More…]
Better Off With No “Alone” Video
As though the song itself weren’t disappointing enough, Kim Petras and Nicki Minaj teamed up again to bring listeners a visual for “Alone”—their poor adaptation [Read More…]
Don’t Be Afraid of Beau Is Afraid—Unless the Overbearing Jewish Mother Trope Is Your Worst Nightmare
As one of those movies that has so much psychological buildup surrounding it before one even goes into the theater (or rather, if one goes [Read More…]
Love Is Like A Drug-Addled Rollercoaster on Ellie Goulding’s Higher Than Heaven
Like so many musicians forced into seclusion during the pandemic, Ellie Goulding was “inspired” (for lack of a better word) by COVID-19. Or, to put [Read More…]
Karl: The Last to Get the “Separate the Art from the Artist” Sanction
Among the many pop culturally-attuned industries that have been oh so careful to shore up their displays of wokeness post-#MeToo is the fashion biz. Some [Read More…]
Be(be) Aggressive…With Your 70s Influence: Bebe Rexha Relies on a Go-To Pop Formula for Her Third Album
For whatever reason, Bebe Rexha’s nonstop bop of a sophomore album, Better Mistakes, landed with a thud on the Billboard 200 when it was released [Read More…]
The (Zen) Take No Prisoners Return of Kesha
After the release of High Road in 2020, which happened just before the lockdowns of the pandemic would start to pop off, it’s safe to [Read More…]
“Love Is A Battlefield” As Forerunner to “Papa Don’t Preach”
It’s slightly uncanny that, in the early pre-fame days of Madonna’s career, her first manager, Camille Barbone, was grooming her to look and sound more [Read More…]
When Legacies Are Slightly Obfuscated by White Girls Dancing: Harry Belafonte and Beetlejuice
In the wake of Harry Belafonte’s death on April 25th, there’s no doubt that an embarrassing number of people likely had to be reminded of [Read More…]
Kim and Nicki’s “Alone” Isn’t Worthy of the “Better Off Alone” Sample
“I don’t know how you did it, Kim. You took a classic and actually made it better!” Zane Lowe exclaims obsequiously in an interview with [Read More…]
