How The Assassination of Gianni Versace uses dance pop to craft a gay American Psycho

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The FX drama ”is using music to frame its subject as an explicitly gay variation on the American Psycho archetype,” Judy Berman says of this week’s episode, which seemed to reference the 2000 Mary Harron film starring Christian Bale, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel. “While the music of American Psycho captures the banality of Reagan-era capitalist evil, it’s the female-fronted house and dance-pop tracks that would’ve played in a typical ‘90s gay bar that suffuse this season of American Crime Story,” she adds.

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