Kacey Musgraves has this great song about rural life that says “if you ain’t got two kids by 21, you’re probably gonna die alone, at least that’s what tradition told you” and “we get bored, so we get married.” This is the story of my mother’s hometown, and exactly why she got out as soon as she could, waited until she…

If you’ve ever lived even close to a rural area, you know youths have three forms of entertainment: drinking, drugs, and fucking.

I’ve had a hell of a week. A really bad week.

Just here to toss out an immortal truth: Katie Roiphe is trash.

There’s no definition. People assign popular or maligned waves to things they agree with or disagree with.

Octavia was also in “The Help,” which has (rightfully) been criticized for the Mammy stereotype, so I think she could bring some experience, nuance, insight, sensitivity, and many other things to this role. She’s an amazing actress; I always root for her when she’s nominated for awards.

Yeah because that is absolutely a thing that would happen. Y’all are dying for something to be mad about.

They were basically blacklisted in Nashville for speaking out against Bush. Talk about some triggered snowflakes over in the GOP...

Toby Keith is not a Democrat. Huge Trump supporter, sang that song about putting a boot up the brown people’s asses after 9/11. Oddly enough, he makes a ton of money performing for Saudi royalty...conservative hypocrisy never ends.

Unfortunately, Loretta is a Trump supporter. I was devastated to learn this after her reputation as a feminist country singer (even if she never adapted that title)...but I watched a performance of her on TV and she was forgetting and stumbling over the lyrics to “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” Kasey Musgraves had to sing…

Bingo.

I just listened. I don’t find any “slang” in this. She references Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, ffs. And it’s...a stretch...to call this remotely close to rap.

My favorite red carpet event is the Met Ball, and my favorite part of the Met Ball is Rihanna, so I’m just assuming that this is the universe allowing something to go right for me.

Sarah Paulson is in a relationship with Holland Taylor, so I’m sure she falls under that umbrella.

It’s hard for me to separate Katy Perry’s rise and fall from the Lady Gaga phenomenon. I think that in Perry’s early days, she knew she had to up the crazy antics and weird sex appeal to compete with Gaga and her rabid fandom. Then Gaga grew out of the antics, so Perry had to try to evolve into this deeply personal…

Miley is damned if she stays in her white lane and damned if she doesn’t. After years of bitching about her experiment in pissing off her white southern daddy by embracing black culture, we’re mad that she shifted to folksy music with influence from her country roots? I’m no Miley fan and I felt like this album was a…

I know Taylor Swift’s “1989" album and the singles off of her previous albums, so I’m admittedly not a Taylor expert. So can somebody please tell me how she’s in a “race to adopt trendy styles of black music”? I’ll give you “Shake It Off,” with the “this sick beat” lyric/copyright and the appropriative music video.…

Still beat Texas tho

God, it’s so good.

Well, he’s right. Most people wouldn’t understand. I’ll give him that.