The Development of Taste:

Freddie de Boer:

"You like one thing or one set of things and it leads you to other things and in time your tastes develop and you move on from what you liked. You may or may not return to the stuff you used to like, from time to time ..."

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"For complex reasons that I’ll get in trouble if I enumerate, the dominance of pop music in contemporary culture is also a dominance of low stakes, don’t-harsh-the-vibe sunniness."

"we have never had more relentless focus on trauma, adolescent mental illness, and various forms of medicalized dysfunction than we have now, and we have never more nakedly celebrated pop music as the center of our cultural collective consciousness, and yet these two realities seem to refuse to speak to each other."