This week we go back to basics and investigate what one of the world’s hottest young women has to teach us about our own self hate (!). We revisit the classic STARGIRL paradigm of Ripe vs. Dead and examine the latent Threat of Dead beauty, and traverse Lily-Rose’s metaphorical potential as a descendant of Hollywood Royalty, ready and willing sex object, and generational leader in her own right.

We also revisit our conversation about the simultaneous crumbling of and longing for trusted institutions via a few current events: the LA fires and David Lynch’s passing, the TikTok ban fakeout, and President Trump’s inauguration. 

Plus! A Rave on classic and beloved Stargirl Sky Ferreira, from Helen <3

Discussed:

• Addison’s Rolling Stone cover story

• Kelela new music (?) announcement

• Lily-Rose Depp on the Happy Sad Confused podcast

• “Extremely Overanalyzing Hollywood’s Nepo Baby Boom” New York Magazine (2022)

• Lily-Rose Depp provided pale skin brown nipple representation on screen discourse

• The Power Notebooks, Katie Roiphe (2020)