The World’s A Little Scary: Billie Eilish Addresses Some Nope Issues on Guitar Songs
The collective consciousness tends to have the same epiphanies at the same time. That’s why, so often, one can notice trends and themes coinciding in [Read More…]
Nope: A Filmic Take on The Society of The Spectacle… and Jordan Peele’s Macabre “Love” Letter to Hollywood
As it’s widely known that Guy Debord already has the claim on the title The Society of the Spectacle, maybe Jordan Peele was feeling just [Read More…]
FKA Twigs Clearly Brushed Up on Her Herb Ritts Music Videos (And Then Added in a Sprinkle of Flashdance) for “Killer”
Back to giving us “normal-length” videos after her TikTok-length slew of Caprivids, FKA Twigs doesn’t disappoint with her return to the screen. This time, the [Read More…]
Just ‘Cause You Think You’ve Built a Bitch Doesn’t Mean You Can Break Her: “Dolls”
After the success of “Build a Bitch” and “Inferno” last year, Bella Poarch is continuing her “one single at a time” approach with “Dolls.” A [Read More…]
In 1999, It Was “E-Mail My Heart;” In 2022, It’s “emails i can’t send”
In another life called the 90s, the novelty of e-mailing (still presented with a hyphen back then) and its time and space-transcending abilities felt worthy [Read More…]
Bitterer Than Sour: Olivia Rodrigo Gets One-Upped By Sabrina Carpenter’s Emails I Can’t Send
Olivia Rodrigo might have believed she had the upper hand for a while there after the release of “drivers license” followed by her runaway hit [Read More…]
Always An Invisible Fairy Godmother, Never A Princess: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Before France surrendered to being decidedly Americanized in its quest to become part of the “globalization effort” that the U.S. rallied hard for after the [Read More…]
Identifying With Kya’s Brand of Agoraphobia in Where the Crawdads Sing
Throughout Where the Crawdads Sing, there is a mostly unspoken realization by those few who wish to be part of Catherine Danielle Clark’s (Daisy Edgar-Jones) [Read More…]
Your Brain on Nature: Where the Crawdads Sing Offers Transcendentalism, and a Dash of Dawson’s Creek Mixed With The Notebook
For a long time, the push toward “modernization” (a thin veneer to layer over what remains barbarism) seemed designed to make anyone who still clung [Read More…]
Kesha’s Timely Revival of “Rich, White, Straight Men” For An Eerie Lil’ Puppet Show in Music Video Form
Of course, it’s always been very dubious just how “straight” a straight man in the upper echelons of society really is. For his preference for [Read More…]
