Tacky : love letters to the worst culture we have to offer /
King, Rax,
Tacky : love letters to the worst culture we have to offer / Rax King. - 193 pages ; 21 cm
"A Vintage Books original"--Title page verso.
Six feet from the edge -- Ode to warm vanilla sugar -- Vignettes from hot topic -- Never fall in love at the Jersey Shore -- You wanna be on top? -- Loss of the American shopping mall -- Three small worlds -- The burial of Samantha Jones -- Exactly as much spinach-and-cheese dip -- On sexting -- Whatever it takes, I know I can make it through -- The Sims and the heart-shaped bed -- Love, peace and taco grease -- It's time to let meat loaf into your embarrassing little heart.
"TACKY is about the power of pop culture -- like any art, low or high -- to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fifteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we've learned to hate to love -- frosted tips and glosses, Sex and the City, The Cheesecake Factory -- into kinder and sharper perspective. Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact and its entwinement with Rax's millennial coming-of-age: an essay about the gym-tan-laundry exuberance of Jersey Shore morphs into an excavation of grief over the death of her father, who loved the show; in another, Guy Fieri helps her heal from an abusive relationship. The result is a collection that captures a personal and generational experience with clarity, humor, and heartfelt honesty"--
9780593312728 0593312724
2020052273
King, Rax.
Popular culture--United States--21st century.
Young women--Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Essays.
Tacky : love letters to the worst culture we have to offer / Rax King. - 193 pages ; 21 cm
"A Vintage Books original"--Title page verso.
Six feet from the edge -- Ode to warm vanilla sugar -- Vignettes from hot topic -- Never fall in love at the Jersey Shore -- You wanna be on top? -- Loss of the American shopping mall -- Three small worlds -- The burial of Samantha Jones -- Exactly as much spinach-and-cheese dip -- On sexting -- Whatever it takes, I know I can make it through -- The Sims and the heart-shaped bed -- Love, peace and taco grease -- It's time to let meat loaf into your embarrassing little heart.
"TACKY is about the power of pop culture -- like any art, low or high -- to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fifteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we've learned to hate to love -- frosted tips and glosses, Sex and the City, The Cheesecake Factory -- into kinder and sharper perspective. Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact and its entwinement with Rax's millennial coming-of-age: an essay about the gym-tan-laundry exuberance of Jersey Shore morphs into an excavation of grief over the death of her father, who loved the show; in another, Guy Fieri helps her heal from an abusive relationship. The result is a collection that captures a personal and generational experience with clarity, humor, and heartfelt honesty"--
9780593312728 0593312724
2020052273
King, Rax.
Popular culture--United States--21st century.
Young women--Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Essays.