Tamagotchis and reality TV: 2023 cultural predictions
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It’s our last episode of the year, and our annual predictions episode for 2023! Lilah is joined by FT Magazine editor Matt Vella to talk through listener call-ins, from dog trends to speed dating to what White Lotus says about the end of the world. Matt and Lilah also add some hopes, dreams and guesses of their own. Then, FT editors and journalists share their predictions for what will happen in art, fashion, music, tech and more.
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We love hearing from you! You can email us at [email protected]. We’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap.
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Links:
– Matt is on Twitter @mattvella. You also heard from fashion editor Lauren Indvik (@laureni), arts editor Jan Dalley, music critic Arwa Haider (@ArwaHaider), deputy arts editor Raphael Abraham (@RaphAbraham), and San Francisco correspondent Patrick McGee (@PatrickMcGee_)
– Raph’s film recommendations are Aftersun (2022, out now), directed by Charlotte Wells. The Fabelmans (January 2023), directed by Stephen Spielberg and Alcarràs (January 2023), directed by Carla Simón
–Here’s Raph’s interview with Aftersun director Charlotte Wells: https://on.ft.com/3Twlweq
–A column from Jan on how rich bashing is back, onscreen, with White Lotus: https://on.ft.com/3UaFX18
–Lauren has a new excellent newsletter on the business of the $2.5tn fashion industry, called Fashion Matters. Subscribe here: https://on.ft.com/3Xa4Nk5
– A full list of FT columnists’ predictions for 2023 will be published on the FT’s website at the end of this month
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Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco
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| 0:00.0 | This time last year, I sat down with my colleague Matt Vela to talk through our cultural predictions for 2022. |
| 0:08.3 | Matt is the editor of the FT Weekend magazine, so he's in the business of noticing cultural trends and good stories. |
| 0:15.6 | And two years into the pandemic, he was really looking forward to a lighter news cycle. |
| 0:20.6 | Matt, is there anything else that you would like to see in 2022 that we did not get to? |
| 0:25.9 | I mean, I guess the small scandal, if that makes a comeback, I'll be so happy. |
| 0:31.3 | Like, I think there was like a time that the, they had to shut down the large hydron |
| 0:36.3 | collider because there was like some baguette |
| 0:39.3 | in it. That kind of story where, you know, nobody gets harmed except some subatomic particles. |
| 0:46.3 | I could deal with that. |
| 0:47.9 | Fast forward to today. |
| 0:50.2 | That didn't happen so much, did it? |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah. I don't know. I don't think so. |
| 0:55.0 | 2020 has not been the easy year that Matt had hoped for. |
| 1:00.0 | Russia's war in Ukraine has reminded us that peace is precarious. |
| 1:05.0 | There's an energy crisis, there's a looming recession, |
| 1:09.0 | but in all of our lives, there have also been lots of good |
| 1:12.7 | things. And next year, there will be more. So as the year winds down, we're still looking forward |
| 1:18.9 | and thinking about what comes next. Which means that today, Matt is back to talk about |
| 1:24.0 | 2023. You sent us a ton of predictions over the past few weeks, and we go through them, and we |
| 1:30.5 | add some of our own. |
| 1:32.1 | Then we invite FT editors and reporters to share their predictions on their own cultural |
| 1:37.2 | beats. |
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