Toned down for what? How 'chill' turned toxic

Tame romanticism and lukewarm pop have replaced the bombastic songs of the early 00s – but are they also reinforcing stereotypes?In the early 2010s, pop culture was at the peak of a maximalist high. People wore T-shirts and baseball hats emblazoned with neon “YOLO”s (You Only Live Once) and listened to hyper-climactic pop bangers and rap odes to “molly” (the millennial term for MDMA). There was Ludacris ft Usher and David Guetta’s Rest of My Life with its so...

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