Charli xcx covered in red wine, Anna Sorokin in an ankle tag on Dancing with the Stars \u2013 it has been 12 months marked by chaos, indulgence and mess<\/p>\n
If culture is the mirror that reflects the state of society, right now we\u2019re all looking a little dishevelled \u2013 and struggling to find the energy to care. The signs have been there for a while, with rumblings initially picked up by trend forecasters\u2019 finely tuned cultural seismometers. In 2021, Sean Monahan coined the term \u201cthe vibe shift<\/a>\u201d in his Substack to explain the transition from the self-controlled, self-improvement-obsessed worthiness of the 2010s to the messy decadence of the 2020s. Three years later, it feels like that earthquake has finally hit.<\/p>\n The text of the year was, of course, the album Brat <\/a>by Charli xcx, and the image that summed it all up was from the lead single\u2019s music video: the pop star pouring a glass of red wine while standing on a vibrating power plate, spilling it down her white T-shirt and staring defiantly into the camera. In the background, actor Rachel Sennott scrolls on her phone on an exercise ball and actor and model Julia Fox vapes while curling a dumbbell. If not dancing, this is casually leaning on the grave of wellness culture. The message is: \u2018\u201cIt\u2019s OK to be a bit messy, physically and mentally, and let\u2019s have a good time while we\u2019re at it.\u201d While accepting a prize at the Wall Street Journal\u2019s Innovator awards, the musician said: \u201cLuckily for me, the pendulum of culture swung in favour of messiness, personality and the niche.\u201d<\/p>\n Kirsty Major is a deputy Opinion editor for the Guardian<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Charli xcx covered in red wine, Anna Sorokin in an ankle tag on Dancing with the Stars \u2013 it has been 12 months marked by chaos, indulgence and mess If culture is the mirror that reflects the state of society, right now we\u2019re all looking a little dishevelled \u2013 and struggling to find the energy … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}