After School by Casey Lewis

TikTok’s song of the summer isKaty Perry’s 2011 track “The One That Got Away”; Dua Lipa is back in the studio and reportedly headlining Coachella 2027; 25-year-old British heartthrob Spike Fearn is Loewe’s newest brand ambassador; Amelia Dimoldenberg is wrapping up her beloved YouTube series Chicken Shop Date after 12 years; and have a great long weekend — I’ll be back here Tuesday! THE NEXT GENERATION OF DRINKERS IS BREAKING UP WITH BUBBLY BOOZE, bloomberg Carbonation has fallen out of favor...

Meet Alex Eala, the 21-year-old tennis player “creating a sensation” with every match; Kit Connor and Diana Silvers are starring in a movie about the “preppy killer” (a perfect excuse to revisit this 1986 New York Magazine cover story); Alex Cooper announced the reality competition Unwell Summer Games the same day Hulu canceled her unscripted show Love Overboard after one season; and the Chicago Cubs are droppingNine Innings to Love, a 17-episode microdrama set entirely in the Wrigley Field...

Miley Cyrus just announced a new album; Drake teased a remix of Ella Langley’s perpetually No. 1 hit “Choosin’ Texas”; Paul Thomas Anderson is making Cameron Winter a star; and Paige Paul’s NYLON Beauty cover is sponsored by Clinique. Sponsored by OpenAI In May, the class of 2026 booed a series of commencement speakers who had the misfortune of mentioning artificial intelligence. Yet those same students were already among AI’s most active users.

Welcome back to After School Monday Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. 🫶 If I’m going to spend hours watching first day of school TikToks, I can’t think of a better place to do it than in my childhood bedroom, surrounded by relics from my teen years: a tartan Abercrombie mini skirt, an orange velour Hollister cropped hoodie, stacks and stacks of Seventeen, and a bulletin board filled with decades-old style inspiration.

Harry Styles is on the cover of W; Mary Beth Barone is joining the cast of the Amazon rom-com Love Love; Esther McGregor is the face of the new GapStudio collection;Maybelline tappedLove Island USA winners Bryce and Trinity for its latest campaign; andwatch Phoebe Bridgers sing Nirvana’s “Lithium” for BBC Radio 1.

Four months after his nostalgic Coachella performance, Justin Bieber’s 2012 track “Beauty and a Beat” remains one of the biggest songs in the world; Olivia Rodrigo and Taco Bell are partnering on a limited-run pink Baja Blast; Chicken Shop Date star Amelia Dimoldenberg is developing a Skins-style drama series; and comedian Hannah Berner will be hosting Making Love, a dating reality series forParamount+.

Calvin Klein tapped Tate McRae for its fall denim campaign; North West is on the cover of Dazed (she wants a music career but also to work at Starbucks); Britney Spears’ son Jayden James is the face of MAC; Nate Sib is the new Justin Bieber; and you win some, you lose some. YOU’D DO WHAT TO A STARVING ORPHAN?

A How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days sequel is in the works; KATSEYE scored its first No. 1 album in the U.S.; Olivia Rodrigo released a new Handmaid’s Tale track called “Serena Joy”; and Emma Chamberlain is the face of J. Crew’s latest rollneck campaign (my thoughts and some TikTok analysis below!).

Welcome back to After School Monday Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers.

Justin Bieber is teasing a SKYLRK phone; Role Model got Lena Dunham addicted to Zyn; Sydney Sweeney’s lingerie brand Syrn is in crisis; and we’re getting a second season of YA hit drama Sterling Point. HOW TEEN ‘AFTER-PROM’ KINGS IN LA MONETIZED THE HIGH SCHOOL RAGER, wired Jack Schwartz, the 21-year-old founder of party promotion app MyPlots, has turned LA’s teen party scene into a booming business.