decadence

It’s a sinister mode of decadence — decadent minimalism, where overt virtue signaling meets seemingly neurotic purity fantasies, where customers dance in the glow of the glare on bulk bins.

To judge by the chartreuse-covered Forum crowd, Brat summer may yet endure as Gen Z’s own Margaritaville, an ageless mentality about decadence and unruliness.

Hits like “TQM” and “Sabor Fresa” have become part of the SoCal landscape, with keening horns and neatly interlocked guitar and tololoche lines evoking Mexican tradition, while Paz spins woozy tales of high life decadence at the edge of the underworld.

"The opera, in structuring itself around America and Rome, invites a dialogue between those two societies that are often compared to each other in decadence and decay."

All four groups—al-Qaida, ISIS, Hamas, and Hezbollah—demonize the Western “decadence” that, to their eyes, crowded raucous rock concerts symbolize.