teenagers in cars making playlists

So I keep getting all of these videos in my YouTube recommends, and I'm not sure how long this has been a thing for, but this seems like it could be an interesting emerging trend in how the younger generation discover and talk about/critique music. This seems like a natural outcome from a generation who have grown up almost exclusively around streaming music/YouTube without ever having known anything different + the natural comfort that these kids have in front of the camera from spending their whole life with cameras everywhere. The videos seem to mostly be young women dancing and singing to pop songs in their car, and then occasionally talking about why they like a song, which honestly, comes across as more genuine than half the stuff I read about why people like something. There's seemingly millions of 'em already, but here's a few that got recommended to me as an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbGmDUlGgCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkXIRd8oxtM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmsjGsi5fk

I dunno, they're kinda dope.

Teenagers in cars
And we don't care

It's no more or less valid than any other form of YouTube listicle commentary.

Depends on the personality of person recording them i guess

yeah, the format inherently places the personality above the music they're discussing, because no one will get to the part with the best, most underrated musical gem of all time unless they're willing to deal with the person talking, and it turns out that most people, teenagers or not, are incredibly annoying and hard to watch. it's a generational thing and i understand i'm already too old for this shit (whereas my 8-year-old nephew has cited "youtube streamer" as his dream job for the last 2 years). but it's kind of like twitch - even when you find a fun game that's actually fun to watch someone else play, you have to sift through dozens of people playing the same game before you can find someone who isn't a crazy asshole

"So we're gonna do a walk through of Miracle Mile, an adaptation of the 80s movie with Anthony Edwards. But before we jump in, I'd like to talk about the genius David Icke and why all of us are asleep"

As long as they’re not actually behind the wheel while filming, seems cool to me.

I think most people that do these things probably have phone mounts

That would still be v unsafe if they were actually driving! (I checked out the three posted above — the car is parked in #1 and #3, and the YouTuber is in the passenger seat in #2.)

Watching a few more of these now. I think this is an interesting phenomenon for a couple of reasons if you choose to view these as a form of music criticism, and I think one could make a case that it's an emerging form of poptimist criticism. Like, as a nice antidote to the more geeky, male-oriented I Am Serious About Music But Also Memes video crit embodied by Fantano. Spitballing here:

- Young women, especially young women with pop oriented music tastes have been historically shut out of any access to a platform for wide reaching music criticism. As a result, many young women haven't bothered to engage with it. Going through some of the comments on these videos, this is a model they're actually seeming to engage with, and feel comfortable in, and many of them are obviously then compelled to make their own videos in a similar style. I think that's worth something.
- These videos actually capture the feeling you get when you hear a pop song that makes you feel something really well - I think this is mainly the joyous dancing and singing inherent in all of these vids, but
- Some of the personalities that do this actually tend to have some interesting things to say about some of these songs, whether it's personal reminisces about a track, or talking about how it makes them feel
- More people have probably watched these videos than have read any online album review in the last year