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4 days agoPromising Young Women
1990s media portrayed American suburbs as sites of structural, psychic rot and boredom; contemporary creators like Madeline Cash revisit suburban symbolism through nostalgia, humor, fame.
The internet is frothing. This time, over Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement, a spectacle reminding us how celebrities function as wish machines. Us normies ride shotgun, living vicariously through the highest peaks and, at times, the lowest valleys, making up for our own grayscale lives. But, while Taylor and Travis are about as mainstream as you can get, in the 1990s there was a celebrity couple who catered for the eccentrics, misfits, and outsiders.