No defining singular sound emerged from pandemic-era culture

Evidence

There was never a singular way to describe “pandemic culture.” The closest thing to a defining sound arrived in April 2020 with Fiona Apple’s defiant, #MeToo-inflected album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, which earned a rare 10.0 from Pitchfork. But like most twenty-first-century discourse, the moment quickly faded. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 646

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence relevant to the reader’s opening question — whether the era’s blankness is real or an artifact of distance.