Ariana Grande: The 5’3” Geopolitical Juggernaut in a Ponytail By Dave’s Locker International Desk If the Cold War was fought with missiles and manifestos, the 21st-century version is waged with perfume endorsements, TikTok choreography, and the high-pitched whistle note that can apparently be heard from Seoul to São Paulo. Ariana Grande, the Boca-Raton-born soprano who…
Lady Gaga’s World Tour: A Glitter-Soaked Pilgrimage Through the End Times by Dave’s Locker International Desk Rome, May 2024 – While the Colosseum’s stone arches quietly molder under a heat dome that would make Caligula blush, 65,000 Little Monsters in LED devil horns are screaming the bridge to “Bad Romance” at a pitch that could…
DAVID BOWIE, CITIZEN OF NOWHERE AND EVERYWHERE by our itinerant correspondent still trying to find a payphone that works PARIS—At 3 a.m. in a Marais dive bar, the jukebox coughs up “Heroes” for the fourth time tonight. A German banker in a bespoke suit weeps quietly into his pastis; two Senegalese buskers argue about the…
Joe Jonas: The Last American Pop Export Standing Between Us and Total Global Meltdown By Lila Verdier, Dave’s Locker International Desk (currently filing from a windowless press-cubicle somewhere over the Baltic) Back when the Arctic still had ice and Twitter was merely a hell-site instead of a geopolitical weapon, Joe Jonas was just another Disney-forged…
