Tag: Taylor Swift
A Tale of Two Parises: Lana’s and Taylor’s/(So-Called) Whites’ and Arabs’
The outskirts of Paris continue to burn in the wake of another grotesque (but sadly, not unfathomable) instance of police brutality. And this on the [Read More…]
Olivia Rodrigo Gets Emotionally Sucked Dry (Again) On “Vampire”
It’s no secret that Olivia Rodrigo is a Twilight fan. Shit, she even has an unreleased song called “Twilight,” with lyrics that go, “Don’t know [Read More…]
Odes to Willful Oblivion: Taylor Swift’s “Lavender Haze” and Miley Cyrus’ “Rose Colored Lenses”
Talk of being in the initial throes of an intense love (or, at least, an intense infatuation) is nothing new in terms of fodder for [Read More…]
Bebe Rexha Hardly Has the Best Fuckin’ Night of Her Life (But It Might Be For Her Career)
Although it should go without saying by now, it’s clear that New York continues to be the source of all pain. Just ask “hometown heroine” [Read More…]
“Snow on the Beach,” Climate Change Child’s Play, Doesn’t Provide the Best Simile For Evoking the “Unusual” Phenomenon of Falling in Requited Love
Even when “Snow on the Beach” was “first” released on the first iteration of Taylor Swift’s Midnights, “all the way back” in October of 2022, [Read More…]
The Taylor/Ice Spice Collab: They Both Have Their Motives For Doing It
As the Taylor Swift/Ice Spice collaboration continues to gain momentum (thanks in part to other Black women like Keke Palmer sanctioning it), the fact remains [Read More…]
No Sleep (Til Every Last Dollar Is Extracted): Taylor Swift Releases Midnights: The Til Dawn Edition—Oh, and Midnights: The Late Night Edition
For those who had gotten their rocks off on making various memes about Lana Del Rey’s barely detectable presence on what was supposed to be [Read More…]
Enter the Church of Kesha on “Only Love Can Save Us Now”
Continuing the pop music tradition of incorporating religious metaphor (hear: Madonna’s “Like A Prayer,” Beyoncé’s “Heaven,” Lana Del Rey’s “Gods and Monsters,” MARINA’s “Handmade Heaven” [Read More…]
The Expectation That Being a Fan of Something Creates An Automatic Bond With Another Person Or That There’s a “Right” Way to Be a Fan
There’s a series of scenes in the opening credits to Daria that present her in an array of different scenarios being stoic amid a sea [Read More…]
A Gen Z Kind of Daftness: On Billie Eilish’s Lack of Awareness of Taylor Swift Singing “Picture to Burn” or What “Burn” Even Meant Within the Context
With each new generation that “comes up,” there is the constant accusation from previous ones that there has never been a worse sect of people [Read More…]
