Our 2024 cultural predictions: short movies, glitter chaos, cabbage
Life and Art from FT Weekend
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4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It’s almost the end of 2023, which means one thing: it’s time for our annual predictions episode! You sent in your suggestions – and today, FT magazine editor Matt Vella joins Lilah to talk through them. Will films get shorter? Will primal scream therapy get cool? Is cabbage in? Will there be more nuance, or less nuance?
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As this episode suggests, we love hearing from you! Stay in touch. You can email at lifeandart@ft.com or message Lilah on Instagram @lilahrap.
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Links:
– Matt is on Twitter @mattvella.
– The magazine piece Matt mentioned on microplastics is here: https://on.ft.com/3GKYNHO
– Our colleague Emma Jacobs wants to see more 90-minute films like Rye Lane and Past Lives. Here’s the FT’s review of Rye Lane: https://on.ft.com/3NtzgGM and Past Lives: https://on.ft.com/4anSIOR
– You can follow Emma on X @emmavj. Eric Platt, who wants crop tops to make a comeback, is @ericgplatt
Here are some roundups of the FT’s favourite cultural things from 2023:
– Pop albums: https://on.ft.com/3GNur7v
– TV shows: https://on.ft.com/470629p
– Films: https://on.ft.com/3RINMgb
– Video games: https://on.ft.com/3tiY7pQ
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| 0:00.0 | This is Life and Art from FT Weekend. I'm Lila Raptopoulos. We have an annual tradition here, |
| 0:07.2 | which is that every December we collect your predictions for the following year. And then my |
| 0:12.6 | colleague Matt Vela, the editor of the FT Weekend magazine, comes in and we talk through them |
| 0:17.5 | and we make predictions of our own. And this year year of 20203 is no different. |
| 0:23.1 | We asked for your predictions. They flooded in on Instagram and I have the great Matt Vela with |
| 0:28.3 | me now from London. Hi, Matt. Welcome. Hey, Elilah. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:33.7 | As you know, we ask listeners two questions. We ask them, one, what do you think will happen |
| 0:39.0 | next year in culture? Or two, what do you want to happen next year in culture? And we got a ton of |
| 0:44.7 | really good ones. That's great. Yeah. But first I wanted to ask you to maybe humor me in taking |
| 0:51.6 | stock of this year. Like, how are you feeling? It was a tough news year. |
| 0:57.9 | But what about in culture? What are you thinking? Is there anything that surprised you? |
| 1:02.3 | Oh, that is a good question. Maybe the better question is like, is there anything that didn't |
| 1:07.9 | surprise you? Because we've sort of been living in that like jump scare world for a while now. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:16.4 | Is there anything that didn't surprise you? |
| 1:17.7 | I can tell you mine. |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.5 | I guess what didn't surprise me is something that we predicted in last year's episode, |
| 1:24.7 | which is that Twitter as it it was, would die. |
| 1:28.5 | Ah, okay. |
| 1:29.6 | You predicted the revival of Tumblr, which didn't happen. |
| 1:33.4 | But what did surprise me is that, like, we didn't really know what to do with that. |
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