Tag: Madonna
Mondo Ironico #3: Madonna’s Lifelong Emulation of Marilyn Monroe
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. In one of many vignettes from Madonna’s early [Read More…]
Make Money First, “Do Art” Later: Madonna’s Madame X Theatre Tour Gets the Concert Video Treatment
The more time has gone on, the more Madonna can rely on self-referential material. Not only to reinvigorate it and apply it to the present, [Read More…]
Halsey and Madonna: Examining the Context of Two “I’m A Mother Now” Albums
Arguably the pioneer of the “rebirth” album by way of giving literal birth, Madonna’s seminal 1998 masterpiece, Ray of Light, signaled a new genre in [Read More…]
Chvrches Posits That the Enduring “Good Girls” Trope Is A Result of Not Killing Our (Male) Idols
So much has happened since Chvrches’ last album, Love Is Dead, was released in 2018 that it feels like an entire lifetime ago. And, in [Read More…]
“Cherish” Meets “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” With A Dash of “Stars Are Blind”: J. Lo’s “Cambia El Paso” Video
Any beach-oriented video with a woman romping around in it, of course, automatically harkens back to Madonna’s 1989 “Cherish” directed by Herb Ritts. Later, Paris [Read More…]
Prom As Fame Allegory: “Drowned World/Substitute For Love” and Sour Prom
Olivia Rodrigo might have been caught overtly copying Courtney Love’s aesthetic choices of late, but there was a moment in the pop ingenue’s Sour Prom—a [Read More…]
On Being An OG and Trying to Make “Fun” Happen in New York
Madonna, a bona fide OG of the era in New York that people still most romanticize—the 80s—has been unable to avoid trying to recapture the [Read More…]
Britney Ran So Younger Generations Could Smoke Joints Onstage
Among the seemingly infinite number of comments that stood out during Britney Spears’ June 23rd testimony regarding her conservatorship, one that rang especially true was [Read More…]
Madonna’s “Secret” and Billie Eilish’s “Lost Cause”
In 1994, Madonna had already long ago released her sophomore album. Ten years prior to be exact, with 1984’s Like A Virgin. While the sound [Read More…]
Magical Realism Cowboy: Dua Lipa’s “Love Again”
As Dua Lipa continues to keep the singles coming from her sophomore juggernaut, Future Nostalgia, she managed to find time in between prepping for her [Read More…]
