Welcome to the Hannah Montana Generation of Pop Music
The three are among a cohort of former child stars, many from Nickelodeon and Disney Channel shows from the 2000s, who have started podcasts as a way of connecting with a nostalgic Gen Z and millennial fan base. In doing so, they are embracing roles that they played as children and teenagers — characters that some had spent years trying to move bey... See more
Nickelodeon and Disney Stars Find a Second Act on Podcasts
By the late 1980s, Generation X had become the hot topic. This youth population represented everything alternative: they were unplugged, grunge, and commonly called the “MTV generation.”
Tim Elmore • A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage
There’s still hip-hop, country, and pop radio, of course, but these are waning formats, as streaming has outgrown radio in terms of listenership, and streaming, rather unlike radio, has a way of collapsing all artists, fan bases, and subcultures into singular platforms. Modern artists furthermore take an expansive view of their own musical forms. P... See more
What Was Childish Gambino?
It is only very recently that this postmodern hatred towards every kind of ideal has gone fully mainstream — mainstream enough to take over TikTok. Just ten years ago, teenagers still revered ideals. They looked up to the red-lipped sexiness of pin-up girl pop stars like Katy Perry, a standard of beauty that was artificial — injected with plastic a... See more