Archive - Gen Zero

Why Are All Pop Star Interviews Like That?

Thoughts on Jake Shane and the stanification of media

Jun 18 •

May 2025

Finally ... C,XOXO Summer

Camila Cabello and the Art of Failing

May 16 •

My grand Substack re-launch: Writings on pop and politics

May 6 •

August 2023

Pop Goes The Bubble

notes on the music industry's managed decline

Aug 20, 2023 •

July 2023

Bebe Rhexa, Ava Max and the sour joke of gay men's diva worship

Jul 21, 2023 •

June 2023

April 2023

Music's Mass Cringing

TikTok has made the unthinkable happen: musicians now are cringe

Apr 21, 2023 •

March 2023

Against Discovery

breaking up with the perpetual recommendation machine

Mar 26, 2023 •

February 2023

the sound of the vibe shift is a dunk in the fish tank

Feb 24, 2023 •

December 2022

Will robots take Kim Petras's job and other pressing questions

Dec 23, 2022 •

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