Grumpy Young Lady

Pluribus has emerged and wow it feels so nice to have another Vince Gilligan show to watch. We're only a couple of episodes in, but I'm loving some of themes especially around how we treat intellectualism, ignorance, and fighting for the friction that is everyday life. 0:00 - Pluribus is here! 0:40 - Nothing like a grumpy lady1:10 - Episode 1 Pluribus recap3:00 - Pluribus episode 2 recap 4:40 - Why is discomfort important 7:00 - AI Alignment and it's roll in putting on the brakes9:15 - Individualism or "pick me" syndrome is not the same as critical thought10:01 - Humanity does not lie in ignorance12:14 - The rise of anti-intellectualism13:50 - The signs of anti intellectualism16:06 - Learned helplessness and the atrophy of AI Referenced links:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6lzvWby9UE- https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-fed-sloppy-code-it-turned-into-something-evil-20250813/- https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openais-smartest-ai-model-was-explicitly-told-to-shut-down-and-it-refused - https://gizmodo.com/utopia-equals-dystopia-in-pluribus-apple-tvs-latest-sci-fi-standout-2000680460- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKSyWqcKing- https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575 - https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/ Find me elsewhere: Listen to Grumpy Young Lady on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=d9258268798b4b0aFind me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=WzRT4xYLTi6uQOG4mn2aiA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunotts

Massive Attack dares to say something in a performance. What a beautiful thing. Surveillance via Flock cameras, Ring, AI, etc. is kinda spooky. Blob tracking, Andy Warhol, and Noah Dillon all have their hand in aestheticizing our spooky world. Chapters:0:00 - Massive Attack, the Triphop legends behind Teardrop and Mezzanine0:18 - Facial recognition performance0:55 - The death of privacy 2:22 - Hypereal consequences3:19 - Art serves as a very important mirror4:11 - The cameras you can't escape5:03 - The rules no longer exist 6:02 - Home invasion6:11 - Recession art 6:57 - A lot of art is not challenging us 8:00 - Lady Gaga's Swine during Artpop9:07 - Surveillance art and digital critique 10:30 - Why you should care about your data and resisting the pantopticonReferenced Links: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrfisZP-Us- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6UW4CFz71s- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ&t=281s - https://deflock.me/- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyjSl2aqUq0- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPRL2bFNKrk- https://ifa.nyu.edu/avitalmeshi/catalog.html - https://artbreath.org/coffee-talk/art-the-surveillance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_art - https://pitchfork.com/news/39905-watch-new-interactive-arcade-fire-video-for-we-used-to-wait/- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fFj4-CKY8- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1l6qq94/why_should_i_care_that_my_online_activity_is/- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReIwYj7BACMListen to Kattle Considerations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=c10ebb89d0a842ff Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=vjGI6UlqSMa0G8ReQieLeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunotts

Hey yall! Did a fun little episode discussing the music of yesteryear and today with the lovely folks @Bandsplaining. Enjoy!____When you spend your days researching music history, it's tough to track what's happening right now. Fortunately @KateBrunotts from our Most/Least American series has the answers. She has scoured TikTok so the rest of us don't have to, and shares her theory on the 4 categories of modern pop.0:59 - "Ever Fallen In Love" (2004) - Pete Yorn1:40 - "Projections" (2021) - Kate Brunotts7:52 - "7 Rings" (2020) - Only Fire10:21 - "Where's My Juul??" (2019) - Full Tac; Lil Mariko15:18 - "PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN" (2023) - QUEEF JERKY; ethan is online17:38 - "FAMILY GUY" (2023) - QUEEF JERY; ethan is online18:37 - "Судно (Борис Рижий)" (2018) - Molchat Doma20:03 - "Jealous" (2019)- Eyedress24:20 - "Hide - Slow" (2024) - Dorian Concept25:36 - "When I'm Small" (2010) - Phantogram29:34 - "I'm Good (Blue)" (2023) - David Guetta; Babe Rexha31:21 - "Big Energy" (2022) - Latto; Mariah Carey; DJ Khaled34:32 -  "Marea (we’ve lost dancing)" (2021) -  Fred Again; The Blessed Madonna35:41 - "RLLYNICE" - THE HELLP (2024)41:32 - "Mannequin Love (The Dare Remix)" (2025) - Justice; The Flints; The Dare42:27 - "Girls" (2023) - The Dare44:37 - "Locals (Girls like us) [with gabby start]" (2023) -  Underscores; gabby start49:22 - "Customer Service" (2023) - Sugar Pit

serf life chose us I guess

Hot take but I think the Gen Z stare mightttt just be a result of being the most rejected generation and an increasing sense that the bar is getting lower for what we can hope and expect for in the future. yipeee highly recommend checking out the full piece. 0:00 - The Gen Z stare is well deserved0:16 - Open to work!!!!0:43 - Sincerity is scary 1:24 - Absurdity in the face on uncertainty 1:48 - The most rejected generation2:49 - premature specialization4:02 - The abysmal job market6:02 - College6:40 - Social rejection8:15 - What happens to rejected people9:06 - Short term planning10:57 - Careless people13:21 - Comedy and resistance Referenced media:- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/rejection-college-youth.html - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZO1B4fZlOw&t=207s Find me other places:https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts

Oh man Ezra Klein and Kyla Scanlon’s latest chat got me thinking about context collapse surrounding betting and how we relate to it in an economy where attention is the foundation to change. Also take a shot every time I say “himself”. Would love your thoughts, thanks for watching <3 0:00 - We’ve built an attention lottery1:21 - Attention is the new loss leader1:50 - Entertain or Perish2:29 - Rizz marketing and embracing cheating (trolling for gain)4:27 - Sabrina Carpenter’s controversial Man’s Best Friend5:57 - Betting on our literal future6:25 - Context collapse: betting markets and flattening importance 

Customer service is bad and it's going to get worse with the AI upheaval. Say it with me: ✨ REPRESENTATIVE ✨0:00 - Customer service is a dying art0:46 - We are all upset1:30 - AI deception storytime3:26 - Customer service is designed to be bad4:16 - Sending consumers down dead ends5:24 - Talking with agents is a full-time job5:42 - Customer service sludge7:00 - Profit over people 8:36 - Lagging legislation9:43 - Black Mirror is my president10:42 - Businesses created by businesses underperforming

Welcome to Kloset with a K today I'm featuring tracks from Sara Gray, After, Wallace, Grace Ives, Pip Bloom, Jenny Hval, A/S/L, 3I3d3p, Dafna, and Ella Woolsey. How delightful. Tell me your underrated favs immediately! artists you should be listening to vol.1: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4YzLhYGv5AjVyNiw7VmWtm?si=a0f1070b95794a1c Listen to Kattle Considerations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=c10ebb89d0a842ff Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=vjGI6UlqSMa0G8ReQieLeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunotts

Addison by Addison Rae is here and she is here to stay. Between Diet Pepsi, Fame is a Gun, Times Like These, High Fashion, ugh all hits. But most importantly! She's crafting for longevity and we all should too. Good stuff, would love your thoughts. 0:00 - Addison Rae releases Addison1:21 - Album first impressions2:56 - Addison Rae vs. Addison3:30 - Great art challenges people3:35 - Taste takes time + Charli XCX5:00 - Growing amongst eyeballs5:50 - Building longevity6:49 - Fame, reinvention, and separation7:56 - Small team, cohesive vision8:44 - Leading with feeling REFERENCED LINKS:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beNFK2cdnKU- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H_H7sT9KjE&t=26s- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I35Etkaak30&t=2s- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9588929/How-Addison-Rae-went-living-trailer-earning-MILLIONS-TikTok-star.html

When creation becomes compulsory driven by the prospect of profit, you’re likely closer to the product than the golden goose. Another cheery classic featuring mimetic desire, the plight of the West Village Girl, liquid modernity, and the art of Philip Guston and Miles Johnson. Woohooo! 0:00 - following your dreams!!!!0:50 - social media is an MLM2:15 - the YouTuber pipeline3:20 - who really benefits from creation in the modern age4:34 - the role of mimetic desire7:06 - Liquid modernity10:00 - advertisement knows no bounds 10:38 - Philip Guston11:54 - Collective desire for attention16:47 - It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl Referenced links: https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood-new-generation-women-girls.htmlhttps://lukeburgis.com/mimetic-desire-101/https://futurism.com/facebook-beauty-targeted-ads https://www.milesjohnstonart.com/ https://www.economist.com/prospero/2017/06/02/the-careers-of-philip-guston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDbovOp_0zA Listen to Kattle Considerations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=c10ebb89d0a842ff Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=vjGI6UlqSMa0G8ReQieLeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunotts

In an age of endless content, perfected social feeds, stimulation at our fingertips and poorly evolved biology, it's easier than ever to be jealous. Or enraged. Or disaffected. You get the idea. I decided to reread the Greek myth of Pandora's box recently and oooh boy it got me thinking. Would love your thoughts as always. 0:00 - Everyone is jealous!0:55 - The jist of Pandora's box2:52 - Is hope inherently good?3:43 - What Friedrich Nietzsche has to say about the matter4:13 - Hope and content placation5:35 - We are incentivized to be lurkers6:48 - Dunbar's number and relationships9:35 - Fatigue and lack of context 11:00 - We're all looking at each other, looking at ourselves11:35 - How jealousy can be helpful 12:22 - Consumption reflection Referenced links: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box- http://nietzsche.holtof.com/reader/friedrich-nietzsche/human-all-too-human/aphorism-71-quote_d3cd42c76.html- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191001-dunbars-number-why-we-can-only-maintain-150-relationships - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5609545/ Listen to Kattle Considerations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=c10ebb89d0a842ff Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=vjGI6UlqSMa0G8ReQieLeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunotts

What was that? Just dropped and woohoo, it’s a big week to be a Lorde fan. From seeing Ribs being collectively chanted in Washington square park to Lorde collaborating with the likes of Jim-E Stack, you bet your bottom dollar this is my most anticipated album release of the year. Let’s talk about it. 0:00 - Lorde is back. 0:42 - Lorde summer let's goooo1:21 - Dream producer rotation3:52 - The Artist is Present: Marina Abrimovic6:24 - Minimal versus explosive6:59 - Shutting down Washington Square Park10:03 - L4 feels like it's going to be grandiose and grounded

Severance, Dead Internet, and the Dehumanization of Corporate Culture I have very much enjoyed Severance season 2 and cannot help but draw parallels to today's dead internet and general class divide based on the ownership versus working class. Would love to hear your thoughts on the series, I would love to mutually conspire together about season 3. 0:00 - Severance 1:02 - Work life imbalance2:05 - The Four Tempers4:28 - Retention and negative bias5:15 - Individualism and exhaustion7:06 - Wealth and ownership inequality9:00 - The dehumanization of innies11:30 - We're outpacing ourselves14:01 - Infantilization of corporate culture15:44 - Mr. Milchick16:32 - The Dead Internet Theory Referenced links:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2rp-SVIGKI&t=11s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCulpUNfS0- https://severance-tv.fandom.com/wiki/Four_Tempers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsw_4TVzSVQ- https://apple.news/A-8-IoEPUTsKEG0vJIK5B7A-https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/btfhks/what_is_rsubsimulatorgpt2/- https://soax.com/research/what-percent-of-internet-traffic-is-bots

Lady Gaga's Abracadabra could not have come at a better time. I've been thinking a lot about how what we consume and how we absorb it directly influences how we show up in our communities. So much of the heaviness of today's climate can feel paralyzing but this song is such a beacon of acknowledged hope. I love pop music and woohoooooo I'm so so excited for Mayhem 🖤 Referenced links and videos: https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a63631038/lady-gaga-abracadabra/ https://genius.com/34441711 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBynw9Isr28 \https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ilWz_xfPWho https://apple.news/AZLbHxrLjT-uuW0G3N4dbXw Listen to Kattle Considerations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=c10ebb89d0a842ff Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=vjGI6UlqSMa0G8ReQieLeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunotts

One of the greatest paradoxes as an artist is finding the will and way to sustain yourself all while keeping that dream alive. While I do think there's a place for manifestation and unbridled optimism when it comes to art, I see so many folks become discouraged or misguided by a belief that creation in itself will bring them immediate success. Holding a day job isn't about putting your art in the backseat, it's understanding that in order to create to your highest capacity, you have to take care of you first, especially in a generally hostile atmosphere monetarily speaking for the bulk of working artists in today's day and age. Let me know your thoughts! Referenced videos: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEdWh6MHBo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s1KeLz107Q - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsN7ZQ64O9k&t=2s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9sg55thwFI&t=1277s Listen to Kattle Considerations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=c10ebb89d0a842ff Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=vjGI6UlqSMa0G8ReQieLeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunotts

The Joshua Citarella interview of Matty Healy on the Doomscroll podcast was particularly delightful to someone who has long loved The 1975 and holds a position of resident doomer. This essay had me pondering quite a bit about who's allowed to create and enjoy art, afford basic securities, and how that relates to how we present ourselves digitally. Enjoy this little teaser and watch the full interview it is so lovely!  0:00 - I'd love it if we made it 1:57 - We're all eating each other 2:30 - Why self actualization doesn't work for everyone 4:08 - The gatekeeping of virtue 6:05 - The erosion of collective trust 7:20 - Mark Fisher + Capitalist Realism 12:20 - The oversaturation of trends 15:50 - Context collapse and Poe's Law 18:20 - The extraction of monetary value from artisans 21:30 - It's too risky to be innovative in art

Magdalena Bay just put out their second album, Imaginal Disk following Mercurial World. These two are just starting to get some mainstream attention, but it's worth noting that they have been releasing music since 2016 and have consistently been fantastic. Some of my favorite tracks include Hysterical Us, Secrets, Turning Off the Rain, You Lose, Image, and Killing Time but it's easy to find something for everyone in their discography. I highly admire their creative persistence and homegrown operation! Woohoo!  0:00 - Magdalena Bay has earned their place in the Zeitgeist 0:35 - Two cooks in the kitchen 1:24 - Origins and Tabula Rasa 2:45 - Fav tracks 3:36 - DIY duo 4:15 - Struggle to find footing 5:52 - Day jobs and empty performances 7:13 - Music industry expectations vs reality 8:20 - Creating within constraints

Okay Kaya recently released her latest album, "Oh My God - That's So Me" but has been making beautiful, unique work for a while now with SAP, Watch This Liquid Pour Itself, Surviving Is the New Living, and Both. With tracks like Psych Ward, The Groke, Insert Generic Name, IUD, Comic Sans, Baked Bean, In Regards to Your Tweet, and Baked Beans it's hard not to understand the magic of Okay Kaya's charm and comedy but nevertheless I'm very excited to see how she grows and develops over the next couple of years!  0:00 - The magic of Okay Kaya 0:50 - Committing to the Bit 2:05 - What does Okay Kaya not do 3:05 - One Woman band 4:05 - A well deserved space in pop music 4:47 - The mysteriousness of the creative process 7:35 - Cheeky little softness 9:23 - Staying open to different mediums 10:38 - Captain of collaboration

If you haven't completely succumbed to the magic of Addison Rae's Diet Pepsi, I guarantee you will soon. Same goes for the (in my opinion) underrated C,XOXO-- between I LUV IT, B.O.A.T, June Gloom, Godspeed, and Chanel No. 5, there are plenty of songs that have singlehandedly put Camila Cabello on the map for me. Both these artists have taken a risk and ooo wee has it paid off! Would love your thoughts. CHAPTERS:0:00 - Addison Rae’s Diet Pepsi is a gamechanger1:50 - Addison Rae’s reinvention and the power of Charli XCX4:00 - Addison Rae is the new Troye Sivan5:30 - A student of pop stardom6:30 - Tumblrfication and poptimism 7:45 - Why C,XOXO feels real 10:19 - The importance of risk in art11:10 - Fighting to maintain a perspective Listen to Kattle Considerations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=c10ebb89d0a842ff Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (My Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=vjGI6UlqSMa0G8ReQieLeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunottsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-brunotts-86bb78188/

Remi Wolf is THE funk pop lord of our generation if I do say so myself. "Big Ideas" just came out and I cannot help but succumb to the power of Cinderella, Soup, Pitiful and the rest of it! I cannot believe I neglected to talk about "Street You Live On" but wow what a banger. Lots of grooves that are pure fun but Remi's discography also has plenty of vibrant songs to make the pain of life a bit more bearable. I love to dance and also not feel alone. Woohoo! 0:00 - The uniqueness that is Remi Wolf 0:45 - Big Ideas is REFRESHING 1:40 - Vibrant! Intense! Raw! Soulful! 2:30 - Debut and Juno 3:30 - Cinderella, Soup, current favs 4:15 - Remi works hard and makes it look delightful 5:25 - An actual olympian??? 7:30 - The cost of excellence 9:18 - Building a career in your own lane 11:24 - Making the existential crisis fun :) 12:38 - Grounded in the dreamworld! Yay! Reference links: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3pEI2k7BZ0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3_0k8EysE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1LXsnz8cNI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHfdLaXmqDY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlA1ZIm0wc - https://genius.com/Remi-wolf-just-the-start-lyrics ____ Listen to Kattle Considerations on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11FX5G68eYPdSlnrZYq7To?si=c10ebb89d0a842ff Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/katebrunotts Spotify (Music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vV2HAeSNkp97JK2tPpEoN?si=vjGI6UlqSMa0G8ReQieLeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katebrunotts/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@katebrunotts