Girl groups are an opportunity for feminists to converse with themselves, their generational predecessors, and their successors, through music.

However contrived, managed, or heavily produced, reality TV offers a glimpse into our own dark hearts -- reflecting our own desires back to us and performing a ritual of emotional purging on behalf of a society too repressed to manage it on its own.

It is one thing to take teen girls’ interests seriously, and another entirely to take teen girls themselves seriously.

What makes Rajinikanth's image unassailable is his bombastic, over-the-top persona and films that allow one to suspend their disbelief.

While the popular image of the one-hit wonder is that of a struggling, out-of-work person in the shadow of their own glory, their moment in the sun isn't something to be scoffed at, but celebrated.

Boy bands offer an alternative masculinity in a toxically heteronormative culture, celebrating love, attraction, and feelings rather than suppressing them.

'Om Shanti Om' pays tribute to the power of stories and is a reminder to embrace excess in all forms -- whether joyful or bitter.

This widespread popularity attracted scorn from music zealots who dismissed the song as low-brow, irritating, and lazy. But was it? 

In ‘Overrated, Not,’ we revisit things that were so good, they quickly turned bad, and make a case for why they deserve a comeback.