the 1950s-ication of the pop girls

This episode really is like a mesh of my deep interests, which is like feminism, sexuality.

I was a gender studies major and also pop music and pop culture.

Like this is like so interesting to me how much culture can affect even the pop girls and how much the pop girls affect culture in order to even see this change we have to know what it was we have to know what the pop girly music scene was in the late 20 times even into COVID era music.

The scene in this period is deeply inspired by like early 2010s millennial optimism, like Kesha, kind of Katy Perry, kind of like rager pop girl, party girl anthems.

That era, the early 2010s, that was inspired by also this rise in emo grunge music coming out of like Avril Lavigne, the late 2000s.

So like we can see this pattern and there's a twee element.

There's a nerdy element.

There's an indie element happening that really is palpable towards the mid 20 tons.

I think people think that the mid 20 tons like fizzled after 2017.

But if you really go go to your playlist from like 2018, 2019, 2020, it really carried through.

And we don't realize how much the aesthetic of culture, girl culture, has changed and influenced by these pop stars.

So the late 20 times is the era I'm talking about.

I'm talking like 2015 to 2022 for the pop girls of this era.

And it's not just pop girls because there was less of like this pop girl idea and more like female singers that were taking over the radio that maybe wouldn't have considered themselves pop, but like they're pop because they're popular in a way, right? So the music, especially pop girl music, dominating the radio and the aesthetic and the style, it's emo, it's indie, and or it is girls rule, body, single girl rock club anthems.

We see a rise in like, this techno dance music where it's like chain smokers and then like a female singer like halsey singing probably gonna say the word body a million times in this episode so just get ready this is a time of literal partying like the late 2010s it's just party like And that's kind of how it felt, I gotta be honest.

So what is this music like? It's breakup songs.

It's single girl anthems.

It's fuck men.

It's I'm in the club with my girls.

Don't touch me.

Don't talk to me.

Indie was in the air.

Like when we actually think about style wise, what were these pop girls wearing? It's big pants.

It's pants, it's big pants, it's little top big pants, sometimes big top big pants.

Like we're in the middle of queer culture, especially like bisexual culture.