Top Ten Movies of 2018 1. Roma 2. First Reformed 3. Suspiria 4. Eighth Grade 5. You Were Never Really Here 6. A Star is Born 7. First Man 8. Hereditary 9. Isle of Dogs […]
Tag: Music
The Strawberry Criterion: Saint Pablo
The stage floats. Picture a UFO flying low enough to skim fingertips, its underbelly lit with rows of stadium lights. A heat lamp glow that roils the crowd underneath. A thousand overdressed men and women made riotous […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Blond/Blonde
Midway through “Nikes,” the first single from Frank Ocean’s sophomore album, Blond, the song transforms suddenly into another song, swapping simple drums for intricate guitar, sky-pitched auto-tune for a total lack thereof, the abrupt shift […]
BPoFD Presents: Songs of Summer 2016
Like the ephemeral season they soundtrack, summer songs flare up suddenly, burn to a brightness, and vanish seemingly forever from our lives. What makes a song sing summer has little to do with its release […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Life of Pablo
“The Life of Pablo,” the fourth title of Kanye West’s seventh album, remains conspicuously vague in the specifics of its reference, a curiosity given the levels of transparency otherwise afforded to the recording process by […]
2015 Top Ten Lists with Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2015 1. Creed 2. Brooklyn 3. Mad Max: Fury Road 4. Sicario 5. Room 6. Wild Tales 7. The Gift 8. Inside Out 9. It Follows 10. Ex Machina x Top Ten TV […]
The BPoFD 15
These are the fifteen best movies, albums, television shows and books of the century so far, according to the Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators Editorial Board. They are presented below without comment to acknowledge the utter inanity […]
What Rapper Should Endorse Hillary Clinton?
Last night, hip hop artist and activist Killer Mike, of the rap collective Run The Jewels, endorsed Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia. Mike spent five hours with the candidate prior […]
The Strawberry Criterion: To Pimp A Butterfly
Musicians faced with great expectations have a tendency to disappear up their own asses. Either out of courage or cowardice, albums like Low, In Utero, Kid A and Yeezus consciously subvert the sound for which their predecessors won acclaim, garnering in those […]
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