Matt Trzcinski’s career in journalism began in high school when he started writing for local newspapers. He’s been a film critic since 2012 and joined the Showbiz Cheat Sheet team in 2019 where he specializes in classic rock and pop music. He loves the larger-than-life personalities in both genres, which provide ample fodder in books and interviews for behind-the-scenes information our readers want to know. Matt has expertise in acts such as The Beatles and The Monkees.
Matt is a Tufts University graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Media Studies. In his free time, he participates in the Boston Horror Society, a group devoted to horror films. He also enjoys reading the work of critics including Roger Ebert and Chuck Klosterman and authors J.D. Salinger, Edgar Allen Poe, and Franz Kafka. See more of Matt’s work on Screen Rant, Cinema Axis, Taste of Cinema, American Songwriter, and his Muck Rack profile.
Numerous singers, like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Cher, tried their hand at a film career. Madonna did as well, and she made many notoriously bad movies.
Michael Jackson was so big that he nearly turned down a $5 million endorsement deal with Pepsi. The "Thriller" superstar changed his mind when he learned one tiny detail.
Madonna and Justin Timberlake made one of the most memorable hits of the 2000s: "4 Minutes." The track only existed because Madonna liked one of Timberlake's songs so much.
Madonna's "Into the Groove" is one of the best dance songs of the 1980s if not all time. The Material Girl said an ex-boyfriend of hers made the song work.
Madonna and Marilyn Monroe would be compared because they are two of the biggest female celebrities ever. On the other hand, some fans claim that the similarity between goes deeper.
Marilyn Manson has not released a new song since 2020 and since then, fans have speculated he became Christian. Yesterday, he teased a track on his YouTube channel.
One Direction allowed their sound to evolve. Zayn Malik's upcoming album 'Room Under the Stairs' is going to be a big shift in sound for the former One Direction star.
Whether you love or hate power ballads, they defined classic rock during the 1980s. REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You" is one of the most famous examples of this trend.
Quentin Tarantino's movies have a lot in common with Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws'. Tarantino may have gone too far by saying 'Jaws' was once the greatest movie ever made.
There was a time when academics saw pop music as beneath them and now is not that time. Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" inspired a long-form analysis from a linguistics professor.
Classic rock music has produced few songs as layered, mysterious, and intertextual as Don McLean's "American Pie." The tune took many years to complete.
Avril Lavigne's greatest hits album has all the singles that fans would expect ... except one. The "Girlfriend" singer decided to keep one track off the album that made numerous headlines.