Tag: Madonna
Alan Parker and Evita
Alan Parker was a filmmaker more selective than your average. His undeniable status as an auteur has perhaps gone too long unacknowledged save for in [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue Tries To Turn the World Into A Disco Ball Again, But We’re A Long Way From the Bacchanalian Days of the 70s
When all else has failed (to attract interest), Kylie Minogue has always returned to her dance floor roots. The ones that launched her to international [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…]
Dua Lipa’s “Hallucinate” Video Conjures Visions of Madonna’s “Dear Jessie”
At the end of 1989, Europeans were treated to a fourth single from Madonna’s Like A Prayer album, an unusual-for-her-style number called “Dear Jessie.” With [Read More…]
Among the Wreckage: Kim Petras in the “Broken Glass” Video
As snow cascades down over a tire in the opening scene to the latest single from Kygo featuring Kim Petras, “Broken Glass,” Griffin Stoddard’s dramatic [Read More…]
Lady Gaga & Elton John’s “Sine From Above” Is 2020’s Ultimate Eurovision-Ready Song
Because Netflix’s recent Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga has gotten many thinking about the sonic and aesthetic themes of the long-running competition, [Read More…]
“Best Black Album”: The Music Industry’s Award Categories Have Long Been Steeped in Limiting Labels
As Billie Eilish has come forward as one of many “white allies” to speak out among the reignition of the Black Lives Matter movement, her [Read More…]
The Fine Line Between White Savior Grandiosity and the “Like A Prayer” Video Doing The Very Thing White People Are Being Called Upon to Do
There has been an accusation of late, one that can’t be quelled amid the present climate of hostility and rage that has been brewing for [Read More…]
In Chromatica, Future Nostalgia Apparently Never Happened
After years of angling toward the “singer-songwriter” persona with Joanne and the A Star Is Born Soundtrack, one is reminded that despite Lady Gaga’s clout [Read More…]
Too Gay To Function: “Rain On Me”
In the tradition of gay icons having songs about rain–from Barbra Streisand’s “Don’t Rain On My Parade” to Geri Halliwell remaking “It’s Raining Men” to [Read More…]
