Here’s an overview of both the weirdest and most worthwhile true crime projects heading our way, so we can decide now if we’re going to live tweet when they debut or just talk sh*t about them in public but stream them when we’re alone.
It’s the perfect statement to once again make the music industry squirm and confront its arbitrary gate-keeping of what’s accepted within certain genres and their typical lack of diversity.
Madonna inserts herself in a re-enactment of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, channels her self-righteousness into a sort of rap refrain, and shuffles around a dance floor. All of it feels offensive for different reasons.
In a culture that grows increasingly irony-poisoned and irony-fatigued, we’re embracing a brand of emotional comedy that values earnestness over cynicism.