Jake Pitre

Jake Pitre is a journalist living in Ottawa. His writing can also be found at Movie Mezzanine, Sound On Sight and elsewhere. He doesn't think filmmaking can get any better than the "Everytime" sequence in Spring Breakers and he listens exclusively to Lana Del Rey.

We all burn, burn, burn with the desire for fame. But what would we do once we had it? Most pop stars play the game. They know the rules, and they stick to them, mostly. There’s some bending, but only enough to make them stand out just enough to carve their own spot in the ocean of our cultural attention span.