Cardi B might have recently reiterated, “Broke boys don’t deserve no pussy (I know that’s right!),” but it was TLC who helmed that message best on one of…
Read more Tinashe Brings It On In Her Update to TLC’s “No Scrubs,” “No Broke Boys”In what is perhaps a “sign o’ the times” for the world of pop, the week in music has offered an overarching theme that centers on “laying to…
Read more The Week of Laying to Rest a Feud Remixes: “The Boy Is Mine” and “Girl, so confusing”In 1997, Meredith Brooks single-handedly reminded the masses that women were far more than just one convenient label (most often: “Mother”…or, worse still, “Homemaker”). That a woman could…
Read more A Bitch and A Girl and A Mother and A Whore: Julia Fox Takes A Page From Meredith Brooks Re: the Multifaceted Nature of Being A WomanIn the winter of 1996, the Counting Crows’ lead singer Adam Duritz composed the lyrics for a song that would be called “A Long December,” eventually released on…
Read more The Naive Hope Invoked by a New Year As Presented by Counting Crows’ “A Long December”By the time Madonna’s Bedtime Stories album came out in 1994, the postmodern era was well into effect. Indeed, one might say Madonna single-handedly created its peak in…
Read more Madonna’s “Take A Bow” Video As Harbinger of Technosexuality and Obsessing Over a Simulacrum of a PersonAmong Bush’s often underrated oeuvre is a song from their 1996 album, Razorblade Suitcase. Although “Swallowed” was its lead single—garnering the most attention—“Mouth” would later gain traction after…
Read more “Mouth” As The Soundtrack to Being Infected While Out and About
