A growing crisis of capital

In the past two years:

  • Kacey Musgraves released an album with an intentionally lowercased title and all-lowercase songs.
  • Taylor Swift released not one but TWO albums with intentionally lowercased titles and all-lowercase songs. She has gone back to regular capitalization for the re-releases, thankfully.
  • Kelsea Ballerini released an album with an intentionally lowercased title and all-lowercase songs, then took those songs and turned them inside out with a “stripped-down” version. (The rationale for the second relates to the first being released on March 20, 2020.)
  • This is going on elsewhere in music, too, says the Washington Post.

This isn’t strictly a past-two-years thing; beyond music it’s more a past-five-years thing. It’s also, as you can see above, and as written in Vice, gendered. Given Swift’s participation, I can’t blame it on Generation Z … entirely … yet.

I despise it and only half-jokingly wish there was a law against that sort of thing. However, because I am weak, none of that stopped me from buying more than one of the aforementioned albums. (They’ve contributed to one previous blog post already!)

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