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We’re Plastic but We Still Have Fun
I’m not a Lady GaGa fan and I think I’ll never be: her pop music, though strongly influenced by David Bowie and the Queen, is not appealing to me; her avant-garde sense of fashion is extremely...
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All Wail the King of Pop
I must admit I was not surprised when I knew about Michael Jackson’s death. I was sorry but not surprised. He lived the last twenty years of his life on the edge and the constant, worrying news about...
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I Want Your Love and I Want Your Revenge
All the fashion blogs have recently written about Bad Romance, Lady GaGa’s latest music video directed by Francis Lawrence. The usually daring fashion choices of the American artist have become more...
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I Left My Hand and My Heart on the Dance Floor
As you may know, I’m not a Lady GaGa fan, because I’m not interested in her vapid pop music (yes, I’ve listened to her album and I quite enjoyed it, for a short time, of course) nor in her endless...
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You Are the Drum in My Heart Beat
The re-invention of an artist is always intriguing, because it’s fascinating to see how real life and culture can influence a career. I could write pages about this – just think of Madonna (the Queen...
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My Chain Hits My Chest When I’m Banging on the Dashboard (Or A Woman’s Right...
Women’s sacred rights – employment and pay equality, economic independence, pro-choice support, just to name a few – are being put at stake all over the world. Times are dark for everybody and for...
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I’m a Big Girl, Got No Secrets This Time
Music videos have been one of my strongest passions since I was a child: in the 80s and 90s my visual memory feasted on the eccentric and complex aesthetics that many singers introduced in their...
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Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Ether
On April 12, 1994, Geffen Records released Live Through This, an album which changed my life. Eighteen years have passed but it feels like nothing has changed when it comes to its expressive strength...
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Secret Treasures Keeps On Getting Better
This is one of those lazy posts that I usually write on a whim but that have been sitting in my drafts for a while. I’ve recently started writing more about myself, so you’ve probably realized I’m a...
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“I Am A Fighter and I Ain’t Goin’ Stop”: Christina Aguilera’s Costumes in...
Some days ago I published a post I had wanted to write since the early 1990s and today I’m removing another stone from my shoes, figuratively speaking. In the early 2000s I was out of university; after...
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