Apocalypse Pop and Crying Makeup
Apocalypse Pop and Crying Makeup
"kind of funny how easy it is lol"
Barbie Ferreira and Kiersey Clemons will star in a drag king romance; Penn Badgley makes his TikTok debut with a Taylor Swift meme; and Bumble’s nude-detecting AI is now combating cyberflashing on the internet.
THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS APOCALYPSE POP, vox
Post-IPCC special report, releases that describe the world ending in floods, droughts, and fires, like Hozier’s Wasteland, Baby!, Childish Gambino’s “Feels Like Summer,” and Soccer Mommy’s “newdemo” are making an impact with the under-25 set.
HYPH SET TO LAUNCH A MUSIC CREATION APP WITH AN EMPHASIS ON REMIXING, techcrunch
After locking down a $26 million seed, music startup Hyph just announced an upcoming mobile app that allows everyone with a smartphone to “create professional-quality music.” Users can create original songs by taking music from the app’s library and customizing it by adding instrumentals or a voice recording of them singing. Along with sharing to social media platforms — a obvious TikTok play — users can also share their creations in the app.
HOW ONLINE CERAMICS KEEPS ITS COOL, nyt
The brand — a favorite of Emily Ratajkowski, Kaia Gerber, and Jonah Hill that sells Grateful Dead-inspired streetwear and not, as the name may suggest, ceramics — is only getting started.
“It’s a subversive memento mori,” mused gallerist David Kordansky, whose gallery hosted a show of their sculptures and paintings last year. “They’re utilizing the aesthetics of pop culture to subversively remind people to enjoy their lives.”
WHAT THE ‘COOL KIDS’ ARE SUPER INTO, nyt
The cult newsletter Perfectly Imperfect — one of my #1 favorite reads for the last two years — “has offered a window into the changing guard of New York City’s downtown scene with a deceptively simple premise: ‘Cool people like cool things.’”
CRYING MAKEUP IS GEN Z’S LATEST BEAUTY TREND: ‘I FEEL SO PRETTY AFTER SOBBING,’ nypost
Sounds like a joke, but is in fact real. Last week, makeup artist Zoe Kim Kenealy posted a now-viral TikTok directed at the “unstable girlies,” showing how to achieve a sorrowful look through makeup, and it’s since gone viral. Is this a sign of the times or what?
YOUTUBE MEGA-STAR MRBEAST SEEKS 10-FIGURE VALUATION, axios
What the heck is going to do with an extra $150 million? The funding would help MrBeast — née Jimmy Donaldson — “quickly expand his massive video empire further across restaurants, consumer goods, and merchandise.”
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