From Haters to Gypsies: Hilary Duff’s Pop Totalitarianism Hilary Duff’s “Haters” (2004) reminds me of that line at the end of Casablanca about how the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. In this song, Duff …

Hilary Duff’s “Haters” isn’t just pop fluff—it’s a case study in how teen melodrama borrows the language of genocide and geopolitics to make borrowed clothes sound like a broken treaty.
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Victoria Beckham vs. Rupert Holmes: A Soft-Rock Love Story in Duplicate I was going to write that Victoria Beckham’s “That Kind of Girl” is just like Rupert Holmes’s “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”—only with champagne instead of piña colada—but then, listening back to …

Victoria Beckham and Rupert Holmes walk into a bar... both order champagne, kiss in the rain, and complain about health food.
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