Sam Sanders

It's a race movie.

And it's a Michael B. Jordan movie.

Hello.

I think my three words for this year would be reheat those nachos.

I just feel like everything about the way internet culture works right now, streaming culture works right now, and algorithm culture works right now, it is propelling us into cycles of repetitive nostalgia.

Some of it feels good.

Some of it feels bad.

Most of it's just mid.

Like, it all crystallized for me when I saw this viral TikTok of JLo saying,

and the lead singer of Four Non Blondes lip syncing over a remix of Nicki Minaj's Bees in the Trap and What's Up.

And that was the most popular stuff on TikTok for like a week.

And it's like, oh, it's all just the past reheated.

The nachos reheat themselves at this point.

That was my year.

Yeah.

And there's data that backs it up.

So the stat that has given me the most pause this year, apparently of all Spotify streaming, about 70% of music streaming is what's called catalog music.

That means music that's 18 months old or older.

We keep going back to the same old trough.

There's one estimate, I think, from TV Guide that perhaps the biggest show in streaming this year was Fox's Prison Break, which has been around forever.