Noah Berlatsky

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.