It’s March, and everyone’s talking about their March Madness brackets. This year, I’ve decided to get in on it as well. Currently, my bracket has “Rap Rat” going all the way with “BreaKey” and “The Campaign for North Africa: The Desert War 1940–43” in second and third place. We’re all talking about “The Worst Board Game of All Time Tournament 2 bracket,” right?
As Generation Z gets older, things from our childhoods start to become nostalgic. However, unlike some of the other generations, a lot of nostalgia for Gen Z exists on an entirely new medium: the internet and mobile devices. Online spaces like Club Penguin or Wizard101 are relics of the past and apps you had on your iPod Touch probably don’t exist anymore. There is a rich trove of defunct apps and games from the late 2000s and 2010s, yet no one talks about them. No one except for today’sYoutuber: Li Speaks.
I watch too much YouTube. You can ask my housemates about this, but I really watch too much YouTube. It’s always playing on my AirPods, either in the background when I’m doing homework or when I’m going to sleep. Due to my heavy consumption of the medium, I am always on the hunt for new and interesting YouTubers. I’ve managed to find some pretty cool content creators, but no one around me ever seems to know who they are, which I find to be a disservice to the YouTube community. In order to spread visibility to some of my favorite YouTubers, I’ve decided to take this responsibility and start a series in the Daily on some of the best video essay creators with less than 300,000 subscribers. Without further ado, I would like to talk to you about YouTuber Allie Meowy.
At the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU Tisch in 2016, Pharrell Williams held a masterclass with students on their music. One student by the name of Maggie Rogers had both her song and the overwhelmingly positive feedback from Williams uploaded to YouTube. The video went viral, now sitting at 8 million views, giving Rogers and her music new levels of recognition and fame. Her first studio album, “Heard It in a Past Life,” was an indie pop album met with high praise and earned Rogers a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Her latest album, “Don’t Forget Me,” was released just this spring and has given Rogers the perfect opportunity to go on tour. Her Boston stop was at TD Garden, the massive downtown Boston arena that houses both the Bruins and the Celtics, on Oct. 17.
British singer and songwriter, Billy Bragg, decided to celebrate his 40 years of music with a year-long tour, only recently hitting the United States. Calling it the Roaring 40s tour, Bragg made his Boston (or Medford) stop at the Chevalier Theatre. My guest for the evening was my father, from St. Louis, Mo., who has attended previous Bragg concerts.
