At 21, Rema hasn’t yet released an album, but he *has* had enough success to be singing about the villa-and-seabass lifestyle his career affords. His collaborator AJ Tracey isn’t far behind: “I’m the youngest nigga doin’ this fly shit,” he raps over Rema’s hazy hook. Thanks to the afrobeat dreamscape in “FYN,” none of the bragging comes off as aggressive — it’s just sweet, sweet vibes to roll you into the weekend and then into (you guessed it) an album! Rave & Roses drops next week. Dip in here.

The other night a friend was telling me how irrelevant she feels at thirty-ish. I wanted to push back a little, and then I read this thing and realized how right she actually was — and how much that’s for the best.

This roving conversation between The New Inquiry‘s EIC Ayesha A. Siddiqi and managing editor Charlie Markbreiter touches a million points of interest, including several tiny mic drops in the Sally Rooney discourse (“the last bastion of the cultural obsession with millennials”). So until you have an hour to parse the transcript that will Definitely Make You Smarter, I’m going to surface one simple and salient point: Millennial culture loves homogeneity and that is why it is over. From the Rooney oeuvre to Fleabag and Girls, Millennial media surfaces the same trope over and over again: damaged white woman drifts around being messy and for some reason goes out of her way to prioritize her disappointment of a sex life. Gen Z, they argue, has no option for this kind of monoculture. “Those blonde TikTokers whose names are always some combination of two first names don’t represent Gen Z the way we were told Mischa Barton and Adam Brody “represented” us,” says Ayesha. That’s because  Zoomers’ lives have been online, where the whole point is fluidity and access to ideas, so they don’t feel tied to codified identities the way Generation Normcore did. The rub, of course, is that space for multivalence ought to make for a richer artistic landscape — both thanks to creators themselves, and to broader interests in creation as this generation comes into positions of power. Bring it on.

While we’re on The Zoomers Online, can we talk about all the pills on Depop?! The app is apparently rife with shady secondhand supplements like “fertility” vitamins, skin whiteners, and “extreme testosterone” pills, many of which also come opened, used, or expired. Technically, supplements aren’t allowed on the platform, but a Wired investigation says Depop isn’t great about taking down the listings when they’re reported. The pill problem, of course, likens Depop to the Twitter-Facebooks of the world, which are constantly in a sticky spot re: moderating the content on their platforms. And you thought you were just thrifting.

Snake Person* that I am, I’ll again recommend coming down from all this with Katy Perry’s De Soi, a line of sparkling non-alcoholic apéritifs. Pre-spritzed and ready to sip, they’re made with adaptogens, not alcohol, for an evening ritual that feels as good as it tastes. Each flavor is designed to pair with good food and cute glassware (I know you’ve got some), so spend a little less time stressing over Normal People and a little more time relaxing into those chill-out botanicals. Try De Soi here. (Your glass of wine could never.)

*Millennial