The songwriter’s ambivalence is the perfect avatar for the Harris campaign’s problem with the Gen Z electorate – and it’s a problem that could cost her the election.
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Good luck, Babe! was the song of the American summer for a paradoxically disenfranchised and politically triggered Generation Z.
It also describes the tone of its author, runaway pop sensation Chappell Roan, when she refused to endorse Kamala Harris in a recent media interview.
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