The video for Goldie Harvey’s new single “Don’t Touch,” opens in black and white, on a pair of bejeweled lips. A rapid sequence of images reveal a female dancing in a glow-in-the-dark corset and frilled mask; star-shaped glasses à la Elton John; barely-discernible spiderwebs twitching around the whites of crystal-rimmed eyes. Next we are looking […]
Lady Gaga’s saxophone solos
July 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
This marks the beginning of a collaboration between AIAC and Loren Lynch’s blog, PolitiPop, which she describes as “political pop culture for the bewildered herd.” She’ll occasionally write about American pop culture. Here’s her first offering–a repost from her blog. She’ll also do some original stuff for us–Sean Jacobs. What do Lady Gaga and Bon […]
The inequality of news
June 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Simon Kuper in the FT Weekend, takes shots at “the news,” maybe also at his own newspaper: … [N]ews has become news about rich people. Today’s economic inequality is reflected and driven by inequality of news. Much of this news about rich people is produced by just a few English-language sources. A wire service will […]
