by crissly | Feb 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
All told, the performance required the participation of some 800 people, from camera operators to stage crews to Rihanna and her 80 dancers and seven band members. It also required a great deal of building. In order to minimize the weight on the field, the stage... 
by crissly | Jul 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
This week, Beyoncé released her seventh studio album, Renaissance. Soon—if the hidden messages in the album’s various promotional images are correct—the end days foretold in Revelation will come.Or, at least, that’s what some folks believe. Social media has told us... 
by crissly | Jul 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
It started by accident. At the suggestion of a friend, I sent my 15-year-old the Belle and Sebastian song “If You’re Feeling Sinister.”“Cool song,” she texted back. “I like it.” It was only five words, but it was the most she’d intentionally communicated to me in... 
by crissly | Dec 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Pop music is a province of the unsettled. It lives in eras, and its most influential purveyors either adapt to the times or eerily predict them.That is true for music’s production and its consumption. The governing narrative of the 2010s was all about streaming.... 
by crissly | Dec 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nearly two hours into Eternals’ mildly excessive 2-hour-37-minute runtime, it struck me: This movie is bad. Strange and unsettling, it was a realization not unlike the feeling of knowing you’re about to be dumped. The spell is broken; it can’t be recast. For the... 