teenagers in cars making playlists

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