In just under one generation, we moved from appreciating albums as cohesive works to consuming individual tracks, and then to music becoming reduced to muzak: background noise for gaming, viral videos, or endless scrolling. Disappearing is music as an art in its own right, which commands sustained attention and deep engagement. A song’s success is... See more

This struggle is the feeling that the generation which you were born into was the wrong one, that the music is rubbish, that there are no movements to get behind, that art and writing have lost their way and that if only we could go back just ten years then we would have had a much better childhood, teenage years and twenties.

Millennial optimism: A reframing of millennial cringe as a lost freedom Gen Z never had. (I, II, III)