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Schmeitgeist is the new pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday where we decode the biggest trends in 2022 to work out why we love what we love – whether that’s pop music, the carnivore diet or male thirst traps on TikTok. Every week, Ange Lavoipierre speaks to the most clued-in culture tragics to get inside the big trends, investigate how we got here, and what’s next.
There’s new mind-bending technology that creates immersive media from scratch. It's called generative AI and it’s billed as the next big disruption.In this episode of Radio National's Background Briefing, Schmeitgeist host Ange Lavoipierre investigates its rapid progress and whether we should worry about its destination.
The Millennial Era is coming to an end. But what's taking its place? Flawless Instagram face is being rapidly replaced by first take, blurry unedited and even deliberately unflattering posts, as a fever for apparent authenticity takes hold. The number one app in the world is BeReal, which promises to show a less filtered version of people's lives. In fact, the new gold standard is to keep your face and maybe even your real name off the internet altogether, with Gen Z opting for a more anonymous version of life online. Today on Schmeitgeist, for our season finale, we're zooming in on the new, less curated, more chaotic and honest way of being on the internet, and what it's doing for us.
Schmeitgeist is a weekly pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday about why we love what we love, hosted by Ange Lavoipierre.
After a lifetime of being dismissed as a guilty pleasure, pop music is currently cooler than it ever has been. Pop artists like Harry Styles, Doja Cat and Lil Nas X can do no wrong with both critics and audiences, and there's no end in sight to their reign. So how did pop come out on top? Did the genre change or did we? And is there a downside to global popification? Today on Schmeitgeist, we find out how pop music transformed its reputation and conquered the world.
Schmeitgeist is a weekly pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday about why we love what we love, hosted by Ange Lavoipierre.
In 2022 we all just want to be tucked into bed and told that everything's going to be okay, and who can blame us? Tech and culture is doing its best to transport us back to a simpler time in our lives: childhood. There's roleplay ASMR on YouTube, podcasts to soothe you to sleep, a 'womb noise' playlist and kidcore fashion, replete with dummies. At the same time, the number of subscribers to a subreddit for age regressors, who often involuntarily regress to ages as young as one, has more than doubled. Today on Schmeitgeist, we embrace our inner child to discover the ways we're regressing, and the appeal or otherwise going back.
Schmeitgeist is a weekly pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday about why we love what we love, hosted by Ange Lavoipierre.
It's hard to think of a shoe that's had a better decade than the Croc. So how did the widely reviled foam clog transform from dadcore into high fashion darling? The answer tells us a lot about how anything gets to be cool. Today on Schmeitgeist, the unlikely Crocs cult and the inner workings of the trend curve.
Schmeitgeist is a weekly pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday about why we love what we love, hosted by Ange Lavoipierre.
On paper, Gen Z & Millennials should not believe in magic. They were raised on a diet of climate and vaccine science, and they're nominally more secular than their parents and grandparents. So how did they get so into astrology that they decided never to date a Gemini? Is it possible to believe in both magic and science at the same time? Today on Schmeitgeist, the incredible rise of internet mysticism, and just how much we really believe.
Schmeitgeist is a weekly pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday about why we love what we love, hosted by Ange Lavoipierre.
There's a new religion on the internet, and it's called the carnivore diet. In social media videos, bronzed, shirtless, Type-A influencer bros devour raw lambs' testicles and every other kind of meat with zeal. Among their claims: carbs are poison, vegetables are highly suspect, and meat alone offers humans an opportunity to "thrive" once again. Nutritionists warn it could be harmful in the long term, but plenty of converts swear by the health benefits. Today on Schmeitgeist, we enter the church of meat, where the health conscious collide with the red-pilled.
No-one can seem to stop saying the word 'vibe' in 2022. In fact, there are a bunch of words, 'mood', 'energy', and 'blessed' just to name a few, that have us sounding like we got lost on the way back from Woodstock. It's not just us either, it's makeup brands, pop songs, and your bank — everyone from Ariana Grande to Aldi. So why, after a 50 or so year hiatus, is this pseudo-mystical vocabulary back with such a vengeance? What woke the hippie lexicon?
Schmeitgeist is a weekly pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday about why we love what we love, hosted by Ange Lavoipierre.
Reality TV got nasty. In the beginning, every show had roughly one 'villain'. Whereas now, there's a rich subgenre of TV which is 100% full of people who were built in a lab to be disliked — whether it's Selling Sunset, Real Housewives, or Byron Baes. Today on Schmeitgeist, we go deep on hate watching. Is it really as simple as hate, or is it something more complicated than that? And when the credits roll, what did we actually get out of it?
Schmeitgeist is a weekly pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday about why we love what we love, hosted by Ange Lavoipierre.
Thirst traps aren't just made by women and girls any more. In 2022, guys are acting horny and vain for the female gaze in unprecedented numbers on platforms like TikTok. It might be shirtless lip biting, or a POV where he roleplays the morning after you went home together, or even a short motivational speech about how you're the most beautiful girl in the world. There's an avalanche of this content released every day, and it's wildly popular. Today on Schmeitgeist, we willingly enter the uncanny valley of the male thirst trap to find out why all these guys are doing something that guys never used to do. What's changed?
Schmeitgeist is a weekly pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday about why we love what we love, hosted by Ange Lavoipierre.
Like it or not, in 2022 we're swamped by nostalgia. Whether it's the Hollywood prequels, sequels and reboots such as Top Gun, Scream and Jurassic Park, or the fact that one of the biggest discernible fashion trends in 2022 is 'indie sleaze' — a look which has barely been gone for a decade — it's hard to escape. Today on Schmeitgeist, why does almost everything in this allegedly unprecedented moment feel so familiar?
Schmeitgeist is the new pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday where we decode the biggest trends in 2022 to work out why we love what we love – whether that's pop music, the carnivore diet or male thirst traps on TikTok.