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...numbers, which oversimplifies the complex reality of our social and political interactions.“Microtrends” is a Frankenstein of a book, devoting a few pages to each trend. These range in subject from “Love, Sex, and Relationships” to “Lifestyle??; from “Late-Breaking Gays” (men who reveal their sexual orientation late in life) to “Second-Home Buyers.” Penn embraces a contemporary edge and incorporates elements of pop culture into his material, though the coolness factor of knowing...
Apple embraced this trend in a self-consciously ironic way. Its popular commercials pit a creative twenty-something (Mac) against a dumpy, unimaginative middle-aged man (PC). Their interactions constantly conclude that the Mac laptop fits an urbane, exciting lifestyle??though with a reassuring wink to consumers, so as to not presume that the ad actually sells you. But the message is clear: Personality is an extension of where you swipe your credit card...
Young Jeezy’s new video, “Go Getta,” is sweeping the nation in vivid grayscale. The song, like many other Young Jeezy tracks, touts the street lifestyle??it’s for those who “trap all day” and “play all night.” The hook? R. Kelly’s mellifluous voice on the chorus, not to mention the video’s blatant disregard of color. The video opens with Jeezy leaving what appears to be a run of the mill...
...problem is not that today’s hip hop artists are less talented or ambitious than their predecessors. Instead, it seems that most are more interested in living the gangsta lifestyle??characterized by conspicuous consumption, loud parties, drug use, belligerence toward competitors, and defiance of authority—than in making creative, meaningful records. Somehow, Pac was able to do both...
...were five white, liberal girls from the geographical areas most represented at Harvard—California, New York, New Jersey and D.C. Despite this lack of regional, political or racial uniqueness, my roommates and I had profound differences in lifestyle??so much so that, midway through first semester, it became necessary for the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) to intervene and for one of us to move across campus...