Tag: millennials
The “Toxic” Video for a New, Less Glamorous Era: Charli XCX’s “Von Dutch”
Although Charli XCX’s first album, True Romance, wasn’t released until 2013, she has always exuded the sonic and visual aura of being a daughter of [Read More…]
Gen Z Is to Cady Heron as Millennials Are to Regina George, Or: Does Mean Girls 2024 Make Gen Z the New Queen Bee? Hardly.
For those who applaud it, any contempt expressed for the latest iteration of Mean Girls is likely to be met with the ageist rebuke of [Read More…]
Oliver Quick Joins the Millennial “Villain” Hall of Fame
While pop culture has been eager to put a spotlight on a number of real-life millennial villains (including Mark Zuckerberg via The Social Network, Elizabeth [Read More…]
The Grim Fan Fiction Presented by the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart Commercial
In 2023, Wal-Mart has so “generously” allowed us to catch a glimpse into the lives of where the mean girls from 2004 are now. Not [Read More…]
Gen Zers Think Millennials Are Cringe, But Still Want to Emulate Them in the Mean Girls Commercial
Apart from being one of the most overt pieces of capitalist propaganda to wield pop culture in recent memory, the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart commercial [Read More…]
Mean Girls x Wal-Mart Commercial: A None Too Subtle Trojan Horse for Capitalism Via Millennial Nostalgia
As the “reunion” that everyone’s been waiting for, it was practically inevitable that the Mean Girls “assembly” (high school pun intended) would disappoint. Mainly because, [Read More…]
Goosebumps Comes For the Very Generation That Grew Up On It
When it comes to repackaging pop culture, nothing has ever been sacred. Least of all R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps, which has been reworked a few [Read More…]
Madison Beer Retreats to the “Sweet Relief” of the 2000s, Corroborating That There’s Little Relief in the Present
As is the case with most of “Gen Z pop culture,” it’s usually grafted from the 2000s. The latest addition to that truism comes in [Read More…]
The 2023 VMAs Remains Reliant on Millennial Star Power (And What That Says About the Future of Music)
Perhaps it was Taylor Swift’s gushing, enthusiastic fangirl reaction to being awarded “Best Pop” (a fairly broad category and term) by none other than *NSYNC [Read More…]
Between Anitta’s “Use To Be” and Miley Cyrus’ “Used To Be Young,” It Has to Be Asked: Are the Thirty-Something Women Okay, Perception-Wise?
There was a minute there when it seemed like society, or at least the representation of it through pop culture, had come a long way [Read More…]
