There's something happening in the collective psyche of Gen-Z twenty-somethings where they want to live in the New York of Friends, which is not nostalgia for any real place but instead a longing for being back in their hometown as a seven-year-old. Perhaps from the midwest or suburban PA, their image of the "big city" definitely extends from when they took a childhood day trip to Chicago or Philly with their family. These memories make them feel safe and secure, like the first time they got a Frappuccino from Starbucks when the store interiors were not indistinguishable from those of renovated McDonald's restaurants.
you can seek fame, attention. but coolness comes from within. moving to nyc and exclusively eating at chains or the like (chobani cafe) is cooler than going to the brunch place on 7th and waiting for pancakes because they’re “the best in the west village”
i am truly shocked by the amount of professional content i’m seeing about it this morning, and it all features the same 5 guys who don’t look like timothee chalamet and the comments on the posts have no fervor. created merely to exist and now it exists with nothing else attached to it
re footnote four taylor is never going to let somebody else direct one of her music videos ever again i fear… it's very unfair… but also kind of funny that she's so rich she's just like, putting herself through her own film school through making music videos because why not
As a midwesterner this is another Substack culture writer article reminding me that NYC writers need to be silenced at this point. Y’all are self absorbed. We’re not thinking about you. It’s weird how much you care about what other people do and what it signals. It’s like you live in a perpetual high school. You “culture” writers need to go to an international film festival or something cuz your obsessions with Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter are so cringe.
There's something happening in the collective psyche of Gen-Z twenty-somethings where they want to live in the New York of Friends, which is not nostalgia for any real place but instead a longing for being back in their hometown as a seven-year-old. Perhaps from the midwest or suburban PA, their image of the "big city" definitely extends from when they took a childhood day trip to Chicago or Philly with their family. These memories make them feel safe and secure, like the first time they got a Frappuccino from Starbucks when the store interiors were not indistinguishable from those of renovated McDonald's restaurants.
you can seek fame, attention. but coolness comes from within. moving to nyc and exclusively eating at chains or the like (chobani cafe) is cooler than going to the brunch place on 7th and waiting for pancakes because they’re “the best in the west village”
Ok cool police
there were more bloggers and influencers at the Chalamet lookalike contest than Chalamet lookalikes - the media class has never been more cooked
i am truly shocked by the amount of professional content i’m seeing about it this morning, and it all features the same 5 guys who don’t look like timothee chalamet and the comments on the posts have no fervor. created merely to exist and now it exists with nothing else attached to it
decided i only want to read about american culture on F&B, thanks
having the last word is what this fbn is all about!!
thank you buggy
re footnote four taylor is never going to let somebody else direct one of her music videos ever again i fear… it's very unfair… but also kind of funny that she's so rich she's just like, putting herself through her own film school through making music videos because why not
i know 😭😭 but after she directs a feature im anticipating her getting knocked down a few pegs. and the DP position on the film is open…!
As a midwesterner this is another Substack culture writer article reminding me that NYC writers need to be silenced at this point. Y’all are self absorbed. We’re not thinking about you. It’s weird how much you care about what other people do and what it signals. It’s like you live in a perpetual high school. You “culture” writers need to go to an international film festival or something cuz your obsessions with Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter are so cringe.
i live in wisconsin
Hey now, Philly wants nothing to do with this nonsense (which is what we've been telling the "6th borough" crowd for the past decade at least) 😕
I live in Minnesota where we just bought 10 acres and I have never been so confident in that choice. Kidding…sort of…mostly not.
Any temptation to move back to Minnesota died with prince.
Damn. Prince was great.
But also I converted to Judaism and even if my friend is the rabbi of the suburban orthodox congregation I'm not going back.
https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/job-chapter-22