Zeros

The Great Musical Uprising : When Cartoon Girls Stole Summer You're starting college this fall and the song Golden is stuck in your head because on TikTok every singing cat has a rendition all their own. Digital felines with perfect pitch and questionable motives, their animated whiskers twitching in algorithmic harmony. You spent the summer hiking or working or maybe smoking weed and playing video games, but now it's time to think about school again except you can't because that would be too ordinary . And ordinary is dead. Murdered. Replaced by cartoon girls with synthesized dreams and pixel-perfect harmonies. Remember when Alex Warren sang Ordinary and it made sense? When real humans with real vocal cords made music for other real humans with real feelings? Those were the days before the Up-rising , before the cartoon revolution that nobody saw coming but everyone should have anticipated. The writing was on the digital wall, spray-painted in binary code b...