End of an Era?
July 16, 2017 No Comments
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. — Arthur Miller
Accidental Wes Anderson
July 6, 2017 No Comments
These buildings and scenes, collected in a Reddit group called “Accidental Wes Anderson” see the filmmaker’s aesthetic at play in all of them. They can be seen as embodying metamodern qualities: Unabashedly …
SNL Metamodern Hallelujah, Part Two
May 22, 2017 No Comments
Right after the 2016 USA Presidential Election, we commented on the metamodernity of Saturday Night Live’s sketch where Hillary Clinton, as portrayed by Kate McKinnon, sat at the piano and sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in …
Weee
May 4, 2017 No Comments
We love Liz Climo’s metamodern comics! From Tumblr
How to be Ironic and Earnest, with J.P. Sears (”Ironesty”)
April 24, 2017 No Comments
How can somebody deliver constructive spiritual- and personal-growth advice without risking coming across as a cheeseball in today’s often cynical world? We think Internet personality J.P. Sears pulls this off by …
“Awesome” in NYT Headline
March 14, 2017 No Comments
As we’ve discussed, “That’s Awesome!” is one of our favorite metamodern expressions. Not “awesome” as in the over-used saccharine-hype 1980s usage of the word, but the updated 2000s usage that people use to remark …
Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer’s “Happy Street”
March 10, 2017 No Comments
If this song were made by anyone besides Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer, it might be too corny to be metamodern, but it is by Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer, so… we’re feeling obliged to …
Stranger Things Acceptance Speech – Hunting Monsters!
January 30, 2017 No Comments
Just another quick “metamodernism in politics” post. We want to make it clear that we do not see progressive political stances as inherently metamodern. (Nor, of course, do we see conservative …
SUFJAN STEVENS
January 24, 2017 No Comments
We regard Sufjan Stevens as one of the poster children for metamodernism, and no discussion of metamodernism in popular music is complete without taking a look at his work. Notable for weaving …
When Have All the Flowers Gone?
January 17, 2017 No Comments
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