Millennial taste markers were pink and melodic pop patterns, not golf or cars

Evidence

Millennials grew up in the depths of poptimism. As teens, they idolized Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Beyoncé; as young adults, they helped elect Barack Obama and were the first users of Facebook and core readers of BuzzFeed. Yet they shocked pundits with their disdain for the traditional markers of adulthood: golf, cars, casual sex. By the mid-2010s, the media better clarified their particular tastes: the “millennial whoop” (a recurring melodic pattern in pop songs) and “millennial pink” (a “grapefruit shade of apricotty salmon” ubiquitous in fashion and design). — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 306

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘millennial whoop’ and ‘millennial pink’ as flattened, universal taste markers seem to foreshadow the analysis of omnivore monoculture and the absence of distinguishing signals.