From the viral Willy Wonka experience to the rise of Brat Summer and the reign of popgirl icons, 2024 was a year filled with memorable pop culture moments.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Brat Summer feels like yesterday, and Raygun feels like a lifetime ago, yet neither of these things are true as we reach the end of 2024. To help make sense of another baffling 12 months, we’ve picked the pop culture moments that have kept us sane, occupied and, most importantly, distracted this year.
The year began strongly when photos began circulating in February of an incredibly depressing industrial warehouse in Scotland that claimed to be “The Willy Wonka Experience”. The sad Oompa Loompa at the disastrous Willy Wonka chocolate factory experience in Glasgow, Scotland, which instantly became a viral sensation. Taking a leaf out of Fyre Fest’s book, the experience was billed as an interactive exhibit paying homage to Roald Dahl’s Instead, fans rocked up to a draughty warehouse with sad-looking employees and a half-inflated bouncy castle. Ten out of 10, no notes.If 2024 had a colour, it would definitely be brat green. While we might have been shivering through winter, it was hard to avoid Brat Summer, with British musician Charli XCX releasing one of the most-played albums of the northern summer, with no shortage of TikTok hype to go with it. was everywhere, and everyone wanted a piece of it – even Vice President Kamala Harris – until it was over, with Charli XCX taking to social media in September to declare the season was finished.This was the year popgirls seized the narrative and brought us along for the ride. Arguably, the biggest winner of 2024 was Chappell Roan, who told the crowd at Coachella “I’m your favourite artist’s favourite artist”. Joining her atop the list was pop’s newest pint-sized princess, Sabrina Carpenter. After touring with Taylor Swift, Carpenter exploded onto the scene off the back of her album Chappell Roan, Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter (left to right) are bringing us the fun we’ve been missin
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