Anne Helen Petersen

No one knows.

But in those situations, what people do is they make the most conservative moves possible instead of thinking of this as a moment for real experimentation, which like if you look at the history of cinema, if you look at something like the 1970s, like there was a ton of experimentation because the bottom had dropped out of like the traditional market.

There were a ton of flops, but also some of like it's one of the golden ages of American cinema.

You don't have that happening now.

I think most of that interesting experimentation is happening in television.

I don't think all the music is bad.

I think that, okay, listen, I am not the hugest fan, but what is the big song?

Golden.

That was the number one song in the country for weeks.

That song is bad.

It's bad.

It's just like sonically bad.

Sam, her voice, it breaks when she's hitting the high note.

I know, it's part of the plot.

She doesn't hit it.

I'm only experiencing this while driving to the grocery store.

And I'm like, what is happening?

I'm not looking for nostalgia, personally.

Like, I don't need everything to reinvent the wheel or to be, like, the maximalization of all things all the time in order for it to be remarkable.

But I do want it to maybe take a risk.