As culture fractures into a thousand algorithmic niches and madeup genres, it feels like there’s barely anything that hijacks everyone’s brains at once. In the 2020s, we’ve only gotten a few feeble shreds of musical monoculture in the US, like the Kendrick/Drake war and the near-universal outcry against The Idol . And these were often focused more on circumstances surrounding the music (see: moral panic about Lil Nas X giving Satan a lap dance) than singular musical “events” like in the days