‘No One Understands a Woman in Her 20s Like Billy Joel’: Gen Z Finds Solace in Anti-Hustle Anthem Vienna
But critics and music historians hate sentimental love songs, so these artists and songs struggle to get a place in the history books. Transgressive rockers, in contrast, enjoy lasting fame . . . right now, electronic dance music probably outsells hip-hop. In my opinion, this is identical to the punk-versus-disco trade-off of the 1970s. My predicti
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It’s almost as if, in the 15 years since Skrillex debuted, the world appears to have grown tired of music that takes itself too seriously.

There is a growing desire among Gen Z to reclaim their autonomy from their phones and remove themselves from what Shaz describes as a passive state of being. Last year, anti-tech activist and writer August Lamm predicted that abstention would be the next big thing. On X, she wrote: “I’m calling it right now, abstention is the new big thing; sobriet... See more