Sunstroke Magazine
05/22/2023
A Love Letter to 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' | Sunstroke Magazine
By Khadijah Olufayo
By Khadijah Olufayo
A new kind of vulnerability exists on the Internet, and the feverish response to a song released eleven years ago only spotlights it.
I don't know how old I was when I used a computer for the first time. I do remember my dad teaching me how to use Microsoft Word and the feel of the clunky keys against my fingertips as I wrote.
By now, waves of engrossment in the second season of have reached even the most remote isles of the online sphere. It's a sight to see: teenagers and adults alike gathered around their respective screens at 9 PM on a Sunday, anxiously awaiting the next episode of the hit HBO show.
Some people say that celebrities are mentally stuck at the age they got famous. For singer-songwriter Ella Yelich-O'Connor, known professionally as Lorde, that would mean remaining perpetually at age 16 and releasing electropop songs about the pains of growing older.
When a local bumps into Diane and starts speaking Vietnamese, assuming Diane was a native speaker, Diane starts to say, "I don't speak-", but settles on a dejected "I don't understand you" which speaks how she doesn't understand her place in Vietnamese culture as a whole.
As pop stars like Taylor Swift, and now, Olivia Rodrigo rise at a young age, they are met with criticism as a result of both their age and their gender. By creating their own narrative, they can relate to and inspire teenage girls all around the world.
