Jake Tapper seemed as baffled as everyone else. After spending a week trying to figure out the motives and methods behind the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, the CNN anchor was now faced with something far more baffling: why a British pop singer was calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “brat.” The Lead He tried to explain it, but finally it hit him: We’re all brats. “I’m going to aspire to be a brat,” Tapper said. Completed.
That’s what we all say, apparently.
What’s happened in the week since President Joe Biden announced he would not seek re-election and chose his vice president, Harris, as his pick for the nomination is that the memeification of the US presidential election has gone from cautious yellow to a gooey, neon green of “come on.”
Shortly after Biden made his announcement on Sunday, British pop star Charli XCX published in X that “Kamala IS a brat” and solidified something that had been brewing for weeks. The internet, which seemed to have a “meh” attitude toward Biden or had been passing the time on the Trump train or making up conspiracies, was suddenly on alert. Harris’s headquarters Instagram account He embraced the meme. Gays on Fire Island had “Kamala” T-shirts in it Golf club The album cover is lime green before sunset on Sunday.
However, brat summer extends beyond this moment. Just like hot girl summer, The meme which emerged in 2019 around Megan Thee Stallion’s song of the same name, Brat Summer has surpassed Charli XCX’s album. Golf club to become the embodiment of the season’s style in 2024. For Charli, it’s about (and this is what Tapper was trying to get at) being a little messy, a little volatile, a little vulnerable. But also honest. It’s about crying in the club, but also crying about the state of the world in a ridiculous outfit with the top down. It is, in its own way, anti-defeatist.
This is the Brat Summer idea that has been floating around ever since. Golf club The topic was launched in mid-June and woven into 2024 politics weeks before Biden announced he was out of the race. Ryan Long, a 22-year-old college student, made a fancam of Harris’ now-infamous comments: “Do you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” overlaid with green text Golf club The cover returned in early July. It now has More than 4 million visits on X and Long landed at TechCrunchwho quoted him as saying “because of you” Venn diagram quote“Kamala goes viral on gay Twitter every couple of months. She’s become a kind of pseudo-gay icon.”
Because this can make the heads of those over 40 dizzy (see above), the internet has since been flooded with stories about how Harris’ campaign is Embracing the memes and explaining, Hear this Golf club It’s a lot more introspective than you might expect.All of this is a valuable reader service to anyone who thinks introspection isn’t possible in pop music and/or to anyone who’s never heard Robyn.