Tag: capitalism
Madonna Reinforces an Increasingly Anachronistic Message on an Updated “Material Gworl”
Madonna has been quite busy repackaging her music this week. In addition to proving that Beyoncé is just as much of an opportunist (frequently posing [Read More…]
Too Much Trauma Shield: Britney’s Seeming Immunity to Critiques of Environmentally-Damaging Displays of Wealth
Amid Taylor Swift’s placement on the slow-burning pyre for being the celebrity with the highest amount of carbon emissions this year, other stars of every [Read More…]
The Celebrity Private Jet “Reckoning”
Usually, when Saint Hoax gets around to mocking something (consistently obsessing over American shit instead of giving us a glimpse into their own more oppressive [Read More…]
Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” Calls For the Type of Action That Many Can’t Take
With an opening that is instantly identifiable to any 90s music scholar as Robin S.’ “Show Me Love” (which Charli XCX also recently took to [Read More…]
Art Is Pain, Ostracism and Destitution; Heather Matarazzo Is People Pursuing Art
For whatever reason, it seems like Gaten Matarazzo is more of a household name than Heather (no relation), who blazed the trail for “awkward” (read: [Read More…]
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Touches on the Craving for a Tangible Community That Has Been Lost Among Humans
“It’s nice to do together, because it’s well-intentioned,” Jenny Slate says in a 2011 interview with Brian Williams (who also seems only too eager to [Read More…]
Coachella Falling on Easter Weekend Feels Like an Homage to What People Truly Worship
It’s been no secret for some time that the trappings of the Money God are what “the people” worship most of all in this (post-post-post-post-post-post-post) [Read More…]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s Branded Love for Tiffany’s
It’s a delicate subject. Speaking “ill” of Beyoncé (but we must remember that even the “gods” are capable of frailty). Jay-Z, not so much. You [Read More…]
Parasite and Squid Game: On the Two Biggest Things Out of S. Korea (as Far as America is Concerned) Speaking to Class Division
There is a message being repeated over and over. A loud and clear truth that no one—even after all that’s happened since both the “election” [Read More…]
Bitch Better Have My Money: Squid Game Affirms There’s Not Much Point in Living Without the Required Funds
As 28 Days Later deftly illuminates, human beings have an innate tendency to carry on even when every possible piece of evidence exists for them [Read More…]