Category: Lifestyle & Culture

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Every couple of months, my social media feeds get filled with fuzzy fancams of the latest streamer romance. It happens against my will. I actively try not to engage, but the algorithm knows me better than…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Read an interview with Lauren James and you’re bound to come across a line about how the Lioness and Chelsea forward prefers to let her football do the talking. She says it herself. “I just want…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 23-year-old Amelia* says she was definitely the “more intelligent one” in her past relationship. “We were very different,” she reflects. While she was inquisitive and curious, her partner, by contrast, was more closed-minded. “I read the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Every couple of months, my social media feeds get filled with fuzzy fancams of the latest streamer romance. It happens against my will. I actively try not to engage, but the algorithm knows me better than…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Swag I took everyone by surprise. It laid Justin Bieber’s cards bare, offering intimate insight into the personal life that fans had long speculated about, over fresh, lo-fi pop production deeply indebted to Dijon and Mk.gee….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Being a citizen of the 21st century, it feels increasingly like the world is teetering on the edge of something,” says Brett Anderson. We’re in his west London flat, drinking tea and contemplating the unnerving, ambient…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When the artists Sarah Brahim and Shirin Neshat first met in New York, it was – in Neshat’s own words – as if they’d known each other forever. For Brahim, images made by Neshat had always…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Croydon’s SL was 15 when he revolutionised the rap game. Breakout hit “Gentleman” pioneered a patronisingly laid-back, almost nursery rhyme-like take on the UK street rap lineage of Giggs and Sneakbo that no one had quite…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Every couple of months, my social media feeds get filled with fuzzy fancams of the latest streamer romance. It happens against my will. I actively try not to engage, but the algorithm knows me better than…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The first trailer for Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is here. Released last night (September 3), the teaser features Margot Robbie as Cathy Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, and offers first…