Tag: Hollywood
“NDA” Sees Billie Eilish Entering That Phase of Her Career Where Fame Is A Key Topic of Lyrical Discussion
For Madonna, it took until Ray of Light. For Britney, it took until In the Zone. With Billie Eilish, we’re only two albums into her [Read More…]
Hollywood Infected Your Brain: MARINA Blows Up the System as Usual in “Venus Fly Trap”
MARINA has long been on that very short list of pop stars in the room who “shouldn’t be here.” At least from the perspective of [Read More…]
Chadwick Boseman As an NFT Feels Decidedly Black Mirror
Whatever NFTs really are—for no one actually knows their purpose no matter how intricately the reason for them is described—the look of the one created [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #36: (Celebrities) Letting the ArcLight Close
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
MARINA Still Believes In A “Handmade Heaven” If We “Purge The Poison”
The year before the New World Order that would commence whether anyone wanted it or not, MARINA released an album called Love + Fear, separated [Read More…]
Mank Arrives As A Sort of Elegy For What Screenwriting–Ergo Film–Used to Be
Although David Fincher couldn’t have known while in the long preproduction phase of Mank that a sinister disease called COVID-19 was brewing to help take [Read More…]
The Bisection of Britney’s Personality As Likened to the Norman Bates Defense Mechanism
As everyone continues to cry #FreeBritney on her thirty-ninth birthday, wondering how much agency this woman approaching forty really has, it bears noting that Britney [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #22: The Reagans Feigning Friendship With Rock Hudson & Then Distancing Themselves When He Was Dying of AIDS
While freedom might just be another word for nothing left to lose (like Janis said), Republican, of course, is often just another word for money-grubbing [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #11: The Decision to Remake Valley Girl
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it affects. [Read More…]
