My Next Book: Pop Star Goddesses
For my next project, I’m taking a break from my usual TV history to indulge a passion of mine: female
Category: Music
Grindfeld Adds to the ‘Music About Nothing’ Canon
First there was Wale, now there’s Grindfeld. Ten years after rapper Wale dropped the Seinfeld-themed Mixtape About Nothing, a metal band called
In Defense of ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘Jane the Virgin,’ Beyoncé, and Dorothy Parker
I go back to Emily Nussbaum’s perfect 2013 defense of Sex and the City in The New Yorker over and over again.
R.I.P. Pat Williams, ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ Composer
Pat Williams took the job of scoring the Mary Tyler Moore Show pilot because his friend Allan Burns, who co-created the
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
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
