Ryan Adams ‘1989’ and Why It’s Totally OK to Switch Gender Words in Cover Songs
I want to talk about an apparently important issue facing our divided nation: whether it’s okay to change the gender
Category: Music
Where Were Bloodshy & Avant When Britney Made ‘Britney Jean’?
I enjoy the Britney Spears in general, for many reasons I’ve enumerated here in the past. And as a self-proclaimed
A Brief History of Pop Stars as Train Wrecks
Does something about pop stardom cause folks to lose their minds? Most likely, yes — the pressures of continuing to
A Brief History of Pop Stars as Sex Symbols
You can grumble about how “sex sells” “these days,” but the connection between pop stardom and sexiness goes back pretty
Britney’s Best Lost Songs
I fell down a particularly deep research hole this week when I started looking up unreleased Britney Spears songs —
The Importance of Beyonce’s Secret Album (Feminist and Otherwise)
Beyonce’s stealth-released album Beyonce, which dropped on iTunes with 14 songs, 17 videos, and no prior warning on Friday, is set
In (Very Late) Defense of Britney Spears’ Reality Show ‘Chaotic’
Britney Spears recently told the UK’s Telegraph that her worst career decision of all time was making the UPN self-docu series Chaotic,
