Sometimes you can only watch the beef of the boys with popcorn. Julia Friese’s new column.
Three observations:
1. On a Matcha Strawberry Cloud with Addison Rae
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Last year Iced Matcha Latte and Charli XCX. This year you drink Matcha Strawberry Cloud, but that Matcha tea with cream cloud and strawberry taste. The matching pop album comes from Addison Rae and is called Addison. Rae, who became known with TikK dances, then appeared when Kourtney Kardashian’s young Pilates friend, and then acted, has now published her debut album. She gives way to the hyperpop aggression of her friend Charli XCX, into a somewhat slightly constricting strawberry cream cloud. Think of Lana del Rey, but in sweet and shimmering, but less disco more tikkok memless lines, but less disco.
Addison Rae is Diet Pepsi on the Jeans Po-Teste, dyeing the hair for the lover blond and openly admit that fame is a very important, then turning up the beat in “New York”, so almost roasted to affect, but then the RAE stream flashed out again in Californian ease. In her video for “Times Like Tese”, the most common pop pictures are called up and the simple in-underwear dancing is revived. The name -like pop sister Tate McRae simply dances on stage in underwear, whirls, turns as if it were in the bedroom at home. Just a girl and the world is its mirror. New to Addison Raes “Times Like Tese” Video is the perspective: the entire course is too close to Rae via Weirdly. The camera reliably leads where the viewing habits would not expect. As a lack of wide angle, as if everything is a smartphone view.
2. Shit citizen
The congesting Rae on the ears and on the Y2K bag hangs a laboratory. A small, incredibly ugly figure, a plush monster from Hong Kong that you bought blindly (i.e. without a viewing window), while reading messages (as a tikok or insta-tile), how two of the most powerful and richest men in the world argue on Twitter, and the most common comment is: popcorn. Over the past few years, it has ground up to attend all conflicts with virtual popcorn as if everything was a film and you in the cinema. As if the beef of the boys was an idea that takes place for you – and not against one. And already loses the power that has all of this on you, apparently in terms of threat. As if Musk and Trump were just as funny as stupid.
3. Mandild
Sabrina Carpenter succeeded with “Manchild” the single and the video of the hour. It is a musical equivalent of the viral “Guardian” headline by Rebecca Shaw from January 2025: “I KNEW One Day i’d have to watch Powerful Men Burn the World Down-I Just Didn’t Expect Them Such Losers.” – So: I knew one day I would watch how powerful men burn down the world. But I didn’t think it would be loose.
Sabrina Carpenter is already taking this context with her, but allegedly naive by apparently only referring to her love life. Half as big with hot pants as Kylies in “Spinning Around”, stages itself as an eternal sweet pin-up, which is delivered to the great, ridiculous vehicles of the stupid men. She is steeped in the back of her loads in a roller skates. Sabrina didn’t want that. She just sits in the diner. But there is the big elephant in the room. Or clearer: his huge trunk.
Men, these are the sweet piglets in their bubble bath, which are always about to blow up with such risky and stupid actions. How could the world survive up to here, Sabrina asks. And then sings she believes that their mothers are to blame. Naturally. So in the end it remains to be determined as always: Thank you, Merkel. And um: Thank you, Sabrina.
This column first appeared in the music express edition 8/2025.