My friend David Marx has a new book coming called "Blank Space" that touches upon this subject: https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Space-Cultural-History-Twenty-First-ebook/dp/B0DXMVK94H?ref_=ast_author_dp But his piece this morning puts a finer point on his questions: https://culture.ghost.io/the-missing-piece-in-conversations-about-cultural-decline/ "The Rehearsal or 100 Gecs will always feel like isolated events if critics operate from a value-system that treats them as sideshows to Taylor Swift, MCU, and the capitalization structure of Fenty."