Taylor Lorenz
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2,278 appearances
18 recordings
9 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 10 Jul
Taylor Lorenz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think this must have been the year that Visions came out, like 2012 or 2013. Yeah. And just being like, wow, she's so, you know, she was like the queen of that like hipster scene, one of many queens. But like she was so emblematic of that era of millennial culture, which I think is interesting because like so many people affiliated with that culture kind of died with that culture almost.
Or like once like Gen Z sort of started, like they kind of just they had their time in the sun.
She's really been able to evolve out of it.
Well, because there wasn't much you could do with Tumblr fame aside from leverage it into some career. Like because you couldn't monetize yourself on the internet in the same way, Tumblr was this channel to music, right? Like you had people using that Tumblr clout to like
get their music out there and tumblr kind of like birthed so much of like millennial music culture or youtube like you blew up on tumblr jenna marbles was huge on tumblr tyler oakley was huge and then you would sort of like leverage it into youtube fame or what i did which is leverage it into a traditional media job the worst outcome. Probably the worst thing I could have done with that fame.
But like, I feel like Tumblr was this like creative soup and it birthed so many creative people. And I feel like so much of Grimes culture is wrapped up in that like early 2010s.
really the first half of the 2010s, there was almost no criticism of social media. This was like, social media is going to liberate the world. The internet's going to change everything. And there was just this rank tech optimism that I think a lot of creative people of that era, myself included, bought into or believed in.
And Grimes was also intertwined with blogging culture because she was really made by music bloggers of the time. And Blogging was also seen as this amazing thing. There's this great book called Never Be Alone Again, and it's about the blog house era of the internet.
It talks about this, of just how this view of technology as a positive, liberatory, amazing creative space that's going to bring amazing things to the world is so imbued in music culture of that time.
and i think it's just interesting because when you hear her talk about her ideology i think she was one of the first people that i heard talking about like the singularity i had a blog about the singularity like a tumblr like a joke tumblr with my friend and i i feel like she made a comment about it that we like re-blogged or whatever but she would talk about the singularity singularity it was called like all the singular ladies or something wait what's but what's the singularity
The singularity. Wait, Kat, do you know what that is?
Guys, it is the sort of hypothetical moment in the future when AI surpasses human intelligence. Oh, that is like when the new world order begins. And like, OK, when I had this blog in like 2014 that we were like, oh, that's going to be the greatest moment. That's going to be.
Yeah. I mean, by a lot of people. Again, like this just goes back to like pre 2015, like tech brain. You had like so much boosterism from the tech press because it was the tech press was dominated by gadget bloggers that were like inherently fan boys. You had so much amazing creativity.
I mean, this is what I think Lena's book, Never Be Alone Again, gets into so much of like the blogging culture and like how that was affecting media and creativity. And so people were like, yes, yes. I can't wait for like AI and it's going to do all these amazing things. And like, we didn't have any concept of what that would be. Right.
It was just like, there was just this like excitement about technology and excitement about the future. And Grimes was one of the first people that I remember, like a celebrity that I would be like, Oh, she's talking about that stuff.
She thinks it'll bring communism. Didn't she think it would bring communism?
Yep. No.
Oh my God. What the boat looks like is insane.
I just looked at the photo. Sorry. Yeah.
This is the most like manic pixie dream shit I've ever heard.
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