Lamine Yamal is the 16-year-old star of the Euros doing his homework between games; Lana Del Rey and Quavo previewed new song “Tough” (it’s no “Summer Bummer”); and Kendrick Lamar’s Juneteenth show featured 25 L.A. artists including rapper 310babii, who just graduated high school last week.
AMERICA’S TOP EXPORT MAY BE ANXIETY, theatlantic
While smartphones are a global phenomenon, the rise in youth anxiety is not. Journalist Derek Thompson suggests this may be because English-speaking teens are spreading their mental health problems abroad.
Just as the U.S. has long been the global economy’s chief cultural exporter—from Coca-Cola to Mickey Mouse—it’s conceivable that we are disseminating throughout the English-speaking world a highly neurotic and individualistic approach to mental health, which is raising the salience of anxiety and depression for young people spending hours every day marinating in English-speaking media.
WHAT’S EATING JACK SCHLOSSBERG?, town&country
After months of attempting to track him down, Town & Country landed the coveted Jack Schlossberg exclusive. So why is he posting all of those weird viral videos? The idea, he explained, was to convey his serious thoughts about the upcoming election in a funny and entertaining way. “I think I’ve broken through to a younger audience. I think everyone’s looking for a little bit of levity and humor here, and if it’s all so serious all the time, it’s just too heavy.”
‘THE BODY WAS THE DRUMS, THE BRAIN WAS THE SYNTHESISER’: DARKWAVE, THE GOTHIC GENRE LIGHTING UP POP, theguardian
There’s a growing appetite among young people for moody, minimalist, synth-heavy music reminiscent of 1980s West Berlin. “I was just doing this in my bedroom and then I’m getting a million streams a day,” says Carter De Filippis, a Gen Z darkwave artist who puts out music under the name ThxSoMch.
THE LOST ART OF THE DVD EXTRA, slate
Young movie fans are increasingly looking for high-quality physical releases with bonus content that is not available on streaming platforms. “You want to know the behind-the-scenes, especially if you’re a fan or a stan,” Ava Chau, 23, said. “You want to see all this stuff. You want to know everything. And that’s what makes you want to buy these.”
A SOCK WAR IS AFOOT BETWEEN MILLENNIALS AND GEN Z, nyt
An intergenerational sock debate has replaced the side part versus middle part discourse. Ankle-height socks have become a telltale sign of age, with crew socks now indicating a certain kind of with it-ness. Night Noroña, 18, recently threw away all of his socks that hit below the ankle. “I think part of growing up is people trying to separate themselves from what came before them,” Mr. Noroña said. (An interesting note on trend cycles: This has been percolating for more than a year — I posted this TikTok last June — but the conversation is still gaining steam.)
GET READY TO SEE THIS SKIRT EVERYWHERE THIS SUMMER, wsj
The white maxi skirt is to 2024 what the leopard print midi was to 2019 — utterly inescapable. Hollister has more than doubled their sales of white maxis year over year, teen retailer Garage is producing five times more flowy skirts this year compared with last year, and Dôen expects sales of their $228 white Sebastiane skirt, which has sold out seven times on the Dôen website, to be six times higher than 2023.
One last thought:
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I’d love to wear a white maxi skirt, but my young daughter would just think it’s a giant napkin.
the way i was shopping for white maxi skirts right before i read this…