Alex Cooper’s show features no-holds-barred conversations about women, intimacy and mental health. The vice-president’s visit offered a chance to connect with the TikTok generation According to Spotify, Alex Cooper’s podcast Call Her Daddy is the second-most-listened-to podcast in the world, behind only The Joe Rogan Experience and with a very different audience. While the audience for Rogan’s health advice and anti-woke politics skews heavily male, Cooper’s podcast of girls’ room secrets,...

The nearly 50-year-old song has been adopted by the under-30s to describe their particular feelings of ennui What does Billy Joel know about being a teenage girl? Enough, it turns out, to have written one of gen Z’s favorite anti-hustle anthems: Vienna, a nearly 50-year-old song that’s been adopted by the under-30s to describe their particular feelings of ennui. On TikTok, young women craft their identities around the song. One content creator said she booked a trip to the Austrian capitol...

A Hamilton-esque performance extolling the virtues of design software was exactly the wrong kind of corny The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping. That’s what happened at Canva Create, a summit held in Los Angeles last week, in honor of Canva, a graphic design company known for helping non-designers...

Americans are spending less on weekday lunches, opting instead to save for weekends. Is a once-cherished meal in its death throes? “The lunch rush is dead,” an NBC News headline announced this week. Blame it on working from home, tighter budgets, inflation or all of the above: transaction data pulled by the digital-payments app Square found that midday food spending was down 3.3% nationwide last year compared with 2019. The decrease was steeper in some cities, including Boston, Atlanta and...