Bitch Magazine’s RetroPop series: ALL OF THEM!

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Holy smokes, I’ve been doing pop radio/historical lady writer mashups for Bitch Magazine for TWO MONTHS now! Before the final post goes up, voila an archive of all the smashes I’ve smashed for them…

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*Introducing RetroPop: Connecting Today’s Lady-centric Top 40 tunes with Great Female Jams from the Past

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*RetroPop: Pride & Prejudice & Carly Rae Jepsen

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*RetroPop: Why Edna St. Vincent Millay Would Love “Starships” by Nicki Minaj

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*RetroPop: Is the Dude in P!nk’s “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” Just a 2012 Version of Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights?

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*RetroPop: Ellie Goulding’s “Lights” and Emily Dickinson’s Dark

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*RetroPop: Would Jane Eyre Totally Heart Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”?

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*RetroPop: Jolting “Wide Awake” With Katy Perry, Maya Angelou, and Sylvia Plath

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*RetroPop: Is Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep” a Riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

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*RetroPop: Getting Dumped with Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”

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*RetroPop: On the Manhunt with Rihanna’s “Where Have You Been?” and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple

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*RetroPop: Nicki Minaj’s Obama-Noted Political Satire and the “Little Boxes” She Might Enjoy

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*RetroPop: What Would Zelda Fitzgerald Say to Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City’s “Good Time”?

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*RetroPop: (Completely Non-Violent, Totally Symbolic) Mariah Carey Cage Match

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*RetroPop: Criminal Intent with Sia and David Guetta’s “Titanium” and Anne Sexton’s Romantic Murder

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*RetroPop: Britney Spears and Virginia Woolf—CAUGHT ON TAPE!

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*Katy Perry is Billboard’s Woman of the Year… But Who is RetroPop’s Woman of All the Years?

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……..  Katy Perry and Hildegard von Bingen  ……..

BEWARE the curse of the Rom-Com career, KATE HUDSON!

Kate Hudson… AND BEHOLD THREE COMEBACK-SPARKING WEB SERIES CONCEPTS WE CAN TOTALLY FILM THIS WEEKEND, KATE, IF YOU’RE FREE! I’VE GOT SOME TIME ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. TWITTER DM ME @b_goldberg!

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Vulture argues that Hudson and Rom-Com bombshells before/alongside her (Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, etc) are doomed to a future of happy motherhood and crappy film roles in box-office duds. Because apparently now that ladies like this have paid their dues, passed their shiny-faced prime popped out babies in their real lives, audiences don’t care about them anymore in fictional stories. At least, not the ones they made their careers on.

and write, “One former studio chief puts the conundrum facing Kate Hudson best: ‘She is beautiful, smart, and funny — someone should write a movie for her.’ The problem facing both Hudson and just about all of the leading ladies of romantic comedy is: No one is.”

The Vulture authors argue that, “Market conditions don’t favor Hudson’s forte, the rom-com, nor does she seem interested in or able to develop her own material to propel herself forward.” Protracting the issue is the fact that studios are not offering any support for actresses like her to experiment with new formats— to “self-generate” new approaches to films in which she could shine.

Industry experts quoted in the piece recommend a switch to network television, perhaps something Mary Tyler-Moore-like.

I wonder, though, if all someone with her industry heft requires are a few edgy episodes of a web series to prove her worth in a different tone of story.

Let it be known that I am interested and available to pen the following for Hudson or any other RC-actresses whose roles have influenced my hairstyles from the mid-nineties ‘til the mid-aughts, ‘cause girlfriends, I owe you one:

– Jane Eyre travels to Jamaica on a quest to artistically document (through sketches) the legacy of her husband’s former wife, the Madwoman In The Attic, and thus make karmic amends. But when Jane arrives on the streets of Kingston, she discovers all too soon that the handsome local historian walking her through the family records is interested in sharing far more than his archival expertise! Existential hilarity ensues in this smart, spiritually compelling and exotic tale.

– What is the letter G? What is it… really? In this thoughtful yet comedic romp, G is a lady who represents goodness, gastronomy, geometry and a girl looking for a boy who’ll love her. But, stuck between the finicky and frustrating letter F and the hideously hairy letter H, what’s a G to choose? She must look deep into her cache of g-related qualities to learn how to liberate herself from the stifling order of the alphabet… and find love in a whole new word.

– When a lady werewolf sets out to pen an exhaustive dictionary of werewolf-isms, there is a big storm and she gets wet and doesn’t like it one bit. That’s all.

BEWARE the curse of the Rom-Com career, KATE HUDSON!