Olivia Giovetti
@oliviagiovetti.bsky.social
When I was 4, I dressed up as Mephistopheles from Faust for Halloween and corrected each of my grandparents' friends when they thought I was the devil.
Now I'm a cultural critic.
Web: oliviagiovetti.com
Substack: criticaldrift.org
Now I'm a cultural critic.
Web: oliviagiovetti.com
Substack: criticaldrift.org
For context, here's Epstein emailing with Robert Lawrence Kuhn about Beethoven.
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
For context, here's Epstein emailing with Robert Lawrence Kuhn about Beethoven.
I love it when the algo rhymes
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I love it when the algo rhymes
Someone should show Megyn Kelly this document from the Epstein Files: an email forward of historical photos. The sender instructs Epstein and someone named Warren to ”go directly to photo #9.” The image is of five-year-old Lina Medina after giving birth.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Someone should show Megyn Kelly this document from the Epstein Files: an email forward of historical photos. The sender instructs Epstein and someone named Warren to ”go directly to photo #9.” The image is of five-year-old Lina Medina after giving birth.
When you "believe in people" but you use GPT to write your carousel statement for IG.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When you "believe in people" but you use GPT to write your carousel statement for IG.
Hot take: People who actively profited off of the mindfulness industrial complex and charged members of a school of Buddhism to discuss the SA charges brought against that school’s leader don’t get to take the wheel of this discussion.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hot take: People who actively profited off of the mindfulness industrial complex and charged members of a school of Buddhism to discuss the SA charges brought against that school’s leader don’t get to take the wheel of this discussion.
Also if you're subscribed to my Substack please check out this latest post on the app/site itself because I forgot to add the footnotes before hitting send and I was especially proud of the first one. www.criticaldrift.org/p/ukrainian-...
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Also if you're subscribed to my Substack please check out this latest post on the app/site itself because I forgot to add the footnotes before hitting send and I was especially proud of the first one. www.criticaldrift.org/p/ukrainian-...
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re both Elijah Wood in Everything Is Illuminated and your dog is Sammy Davis Junior, Junior
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re both Elijah Wood in Everything Is Illuminated and your dog is Sammy Davis Junior, Junior
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re Mireille and Robert from French in Action
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re Mireille and Robert from French in Action
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re not the devil you’re actually Joseph Rouleau in the 1973 Who’s Afraid of Opera version of Gounod’s Faust
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re not the devil you’re actually Joseph Rouleau in the 1973 Who’s Afraid of Opera version of Gounod’s Faust
Shevshchenko lassoes the moon, Lviv
October 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Shevshchenko lassoes the moon, Lviv
Campaigning for the NYT's classical critic gig on the platform of bringing back reads like this line from 1900.
September 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Campaigning for the NYT's classical critic gig on the platform of bringing back reads like this line from 1900.
Find someone to hold you the way Robert Redford held a cup
September 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Find someone to hold you the way Robert Redford held a cup
"Get in, loser, we're going make the Met stronger as an institution, both financially and artistically"
September 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Get in, loser, we're going make the Met stronger as an institution, both financially and artistically"
I guess it's a good thing that women in Saudi can drive now.
September 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I guess it's a good thing that women in Saudi can drive now.
"I hate you both." — Pat Nixon, Nixon in China (Adams, 1987)
September 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"I hate you both." — Pat Nixon, Nixon in China (Adams, 1987)
Nice try guys you’re not getting rid of me that easily
August 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Nice try guys you’re not getting rid of me that easily
Extremely niche content but my dog looks exactly like the Martin van Buren cereal marshmallow from Pete and Pete right now and I cannot stop laughing.
August 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Extremely niche content but my dog looks exactly like the Martin van Buren cereal marshmallow from Pete and Pete right now and I cannot stop laughing.
Tattoo this lede on my lower back.
August 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tattoo this lede on my lower back.
And two different methods confirm the schedule page was updated earlier today.
It's 2025, let's stop quietly removing inconvenient things from artist websites and then pretending they were never there.
It's 2025, let's stop quietly removing inconvenient things from artist websites and then pretending they were never there.
August 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
And two different methods confirm the schedule page was updated earlier today.
It's 2025, let's stop quietly removing inconvenient things from artist websites and then pretending they were never there.
It's 2025, let's stop quietly removing inconvenient things from artist websites and then pretending they were never there.
It's also still showing up in the metadata for his schedule page because Google hasn't updated yet.
August 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It's also still showing up in the metadata for his schedule page because Google hasn't updated yet.
Look, you can be an activist for both moral and immoral causes. I just think that, if you're going to brand yourself as such while accepting Russian state funds to sing at a Kremlin-backed concert hall with a Kremlin-backed orchestra next month, you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror.
August 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Look, you can be an activist for both moral and immoral causes. I just think that, if you're going to brand yourself as such while accepting Russian state funds to sing at a Kremlin-backed concert hall with a Kremlin-backed orchestra next month, you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror.
The fact that this search elicits crickets tells me a lot about the current state of musicology.
August 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The fact that this search elicits crickets tells me a lot about the current state of musicology.
In "totally normal things that happen in 2025," I found out that there is an AI "character" bot based on me and that, for a fee, I can talk to myself (or a version of myself that looks like Dolly Parton and Susan Sontag had a baby).
August 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In "totally normal things that happen in 2025," I found out that there is an AI "character" bot based on me and that, for a fee, I can talk to myself (or a version of myself that looks like Dolly Parton and Susan Sontag had a baby).
Just added an update to this piece following the events over the last week and this may be the greatest kicker I will ever write (it is 100% true).
August 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just added an update to this piece following the events over the last week and this may be the greatest kicker I will ever write (it is 100% true).