Lizzo in the Age of Backlash

Lizzo in the Age of Backlash

Lizzo’s charting songs of herself, as encapsulated on her 2019 platinum record “Cuz I Love You,” were infectious, if not cool; her fat and Black body, much as it became an avatar for white women with cellulite, could be viewed as a token of changed values. This assigned her music an unproven political heft, much…

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In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits

In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits

Margaret, following her nutty North Star wherever it leads, would have been right at home in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), in which U.F.O. sightings make enraptured believers of a select few. But that’s hardly the only Spielberg joint that gets revisited. A reference to Roswell harks back to the extraterrestrial shenanigans of…

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