The Sleepover Club: What The Hell Is A Vibe Shift?
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It's been practically impossible to move for the last two weeks without being told about 'the vibe shift'. We've all heard its coming, but what does it even mean? This week on The Sleepover Club Ione and Halima are discussing the viral essay by Allison P. Davis titled ‘A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will any of us survive it?’ for The Cut.
The changing course of culture is inevitable, but with so much of our lives being played out online, can huge cultural swathes really effect the majority of us? How does a vibe change when so many of us exist in tiny online micro-communities?
Historically, we've swayed between ultra-political and entirely apathetic, with the overwhelming mood being that our current vibe shift will see an end to political-everything and the embracing of irony and having fun. But can't we do both? Can't we be happy, socially aware, and enjoy our lives while fighting for the things we believe in? What can the vibe shift tell us about feminism? Is the vibe shift a patriarchal tool? Only time will tell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.7 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.8 | And hello to all of the listeners. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Ayani. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester Online, in print and everywhere else. |
| 0:12.3 | And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester scene and covers with the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | Yay. |
| 0:17.4 | So this is a Sleepover Club episode where we have all of those discussions that you would normally have at a sleepover. Just a little subnote. Is that even a word? A little side note. Part two of the Bimbo Deep Dive is coming as a special episode this week. So keep your eye on it. But for now, what are we talking about, Halima? The vibe shift is coming. Will any of us survive? Oh my God. It's so dramatic. So we're basically talking about this viral essay. Was it on the New York Times? Was the cut? The cut. Would you like to explain Halima? Yeah, so there's a viral article. |
| 0:55.3 | Who is it by again? |
| 0:56.0 | A Sinto podcast with this same writer, vibe shift. |
| 1:01.5 | Lauren in the Dollhouse chat said she really like the writer as well. |
| 1:04.6 | She's on this podcast with Haley Newman, who I am obsessed with. |
| 1:10.3 | Oh, I hate the New York Times. I mean, the cut, because they have their little, what's it called? Paywall. You can only read it if you're, yeah. I mean, I love paywall because Polyas has a paywall. Paying to read. Yeah, but to be fair, we're not the cut. If I made as much, if we made as much money as the cut, we wouldn't have a payable. Exactly. Okay, so her name is Alison P. Davis. |
| 1:31.4 | Yeah, so she interviewed a trend forecaster of which I've forgotten his name. Do you remember at Halima? |
| 1:37.3 | It is. Sean Moahan. |
| 1:40.4 | So this was the trend forecaster that apparently invented Normcore. |
| 1:45.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.8 | Also ran a trend forecasting agency. |
| 1:49.9 | If anyone doesn't know what trend forecasting is, and I wanted to talk about this a little |
| 1:55.1 | bit in the episode actually, because I think it's really interesting. |
| 1:58.4 | So I studied fashion journalism at uni, |
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