What's in a word?
""It's so confusing sometimes to be a girl," sings Charli XCX on her latest album, Brat.- Yasmin Rufo BBC News
The vulnerable lyrics, existential questions and honest exploration of the complexity and contradictions of womanhood has turned Brat into much more than a collection of music.
For millennials and Gen Z, it reflects a highly relatable way of life.
Brat is, in the words of Charli XCX, a girl who "has a breakdown, but kind of like parties through it", who is honest, blunt, "a little bit volatile". In recent weeks, brat has become a mainstream phenomenon.
In the same week that my grandmother told me one of her friends was "giving brat", Charli tweeted "Kamala IS brat" and the US Democratic presidential nominee rebranded her X profile."
Charli XCX's attribution of 'brat' to Kamala Harris has understandably gone viral and is being suggested that it is likely to bring Harris millions of votes from young voters who might otherwise not have voted.
Who would have thought?
Made-up words that become fashionable are nothing new - even Robert the Cacographic Christian makes up words in just about every post he writes although these aren't fashionable.
To Baby Boomers like me and the readers, Generation X slang was incomprehensible enough but it seems that even Generation Z people can't understand it and had to create their own nonsense.
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Maybe The Curmudgeon should create some buzz words to bring in new readers seeing that the current ones are becoming forgetful, are a bit fuddy-duddy and downright doolally.
4 comments:
"Brat is, in the words of Charli XCX, a girl who "has a breakdown, but kind of like parties through it", who is honest, blunt, "a little bit volatile"."
"but kind of likes parties"
PROOFREADING IS IMPORTANT!
So is reading it properly in the beginning. Have another read and imagine it in the voice of Charli XCX.
" .... a girl who "has a breakdown, but kind of like parties through it".
Probably needs a comma after 'like'.
A woman who worked for me years ago wrote e-mails in capitals when she was angry. And she overused exclamation marks. She was a real bitch and we had to send her on an anger management course.
I'M NOT ANGRY! 😖
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