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she was seeking confidence and stability in her own sense of taste.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“I just want to know that what I like is what I actually like.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“Is it lazy? Is it discriminatory? Is it tone deaf? Is it…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Before the movie began, the lights lowered for a showing of a lengthy soft drink commercial featuring a pop star, a young woman who has since been understood to have been a prisoner for most of her career, but then just regarded, at an age just a little older than the children in the audience, to be sexy.
Lemony Snicket • And Then? And Then? What Else?
TikTok/Reels skits just feel like the glossy, expertly-edited versions of the inside jokes that kids make at summer camp talent shows...Most of the creators...are non-art minded amateurs working in templated formats...“[D]igital vaudeville” says it all — it's just not an "inventive creative practice that expands what is possible with art."
And in a... See more
Why has American pop culture stagnated?
Poparazzi seems to lack any of the hallmarks of anything lasting. There is nothing new to the mode, nothing that cannot be done elsewhere, nothing truly unique or interesting. Restricting what you can do in a social network works with the length of a video, but it doesn’t really work with photos. It’s just another app that will be gone in a few... See more
Ed Zitron • Silicon Valley's Social App and Teen Obsession
What are the women of pop music up to this summer? Being brats, Spencer Kornhaber writes.
It may sound like an insult, “but when the hipster diva Charli XCX titled her new album ‘Brat’ … she crystalized a cultural mood: Seeming a little immature, a little selfish, a little nasty, has taken on an air of glamour,”... See more
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