Sam Sanders

I heard that so much.

Okay, why I like this movie.

It's good enough.

The songs are good enough.

But I love that they snuck the themes of a Broadway musical into an animated film.

Golden is a classic Broadway I want song.

I like that.

That's interesting.

I actually interviewed one of the songwriters who came from Broadway, and he talked to me about how you really had to work hard to make Broadway song structure work in K-pop song structure.

It's hard to do.

They pulled it off.

So I admire it for that.

I think, and Helen knows this, I just long for monoculture.

I long for things that we can consume together and talk about together.

And it feels like we've seen this thing happen since the rise of Trump and the rise of streaming and pandemic lockdown and front-facing video.

We have seen pop culture become less monoculture while national politics becomes the monoculture and the entertainment monoculture for the entire country.

The only thing that I know all of my friends will be informed about on any given day is what Trump did.

It's not going to be on some album or some TV show because increasingly our versions of the internet itself are different.

The algorithm gives every individual person a different algorithm and a different front page of different things to like.

And so I want something that we all watch and talk about.