For the past few years, MARINA has been living out the lyrics of her lead single from Princess of Power, “Butterfly.” Slowly changing shape inside a shroom-saturated chrysalis…
Read more MARINA May Be the First Female Pop Star to Freely Let Go of “Girlhood”Back in 2020 (that ominous year), MARINA found it to be the perfect time to release “Man’s World,” the first single from what would become her fifth album,…
Read more A Song Called “Man’s World” Is, Ironically, Far More Female-Empowering Than Katy Perry’s “Woman’s World”As two pop stars often compared on a vocal level, it’s also no surprise that Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande tend to have overlapping themes in their music.…
Read more Two Different Emotional Approaches to the Aftermath of “Homewrecking”: Sabrina Carpenter’s “because i liked a boy” and Ariana Grande’s “yes, and?”It’s one of the most iconic opening lines of any hit song: “Wake up in the morning feelin’ like P. Diddy.” When Kesha first came up with it…
Read more As the Diddy Scandal Unfurls, Kesha’s “Tik Tok” Becomes Increasingly SulliedIt is an increasingly “grand tradition” in the genre of songwriting. Not to mention a rite of passage for any major pop star who stirs up enough controversy.…
Read more “yes, and?” Joins the Ranks of Other “Clapback at the Critics” SongsAlthough Romy Madley Croft, better known as the xx’s Romy or just Romy, still has yet to give us that solo album she teased back in 2020, at…
Read more Against One’s Better Judgment, It’s Easy to Heed Romy Urging You to “Enjoy Your Life”While everyone had assumed that 1) Putin would never dare to actually invade Ukraine and that 2) if he did, it would never go on this long, they…
Read more The Evolution of Songs About Nuclear War From Serious Threat to Love Metaphor, Or: The Present Relevancy of Charli XCX’s “Nuclear Seasons” and MARINA’s “Radioactive”
