🎧 Hollywood’s Gen Z Blindspot, Starring Taylor Swift

Clips, concerts, community: A cohort hooked on everything but your TV show

IN THE SPOTLIGHT Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, is out Friday. (Erika Goldring/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

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Forget the government shutdown — President Trump is back to targeting entertainment, from YouTube’s $24.5 million settlement with him to a floated “100 percent tariff” on foreign-made films. Host Elaine Low, Sean McNulty, and Natalie Jarvey parse what a “Made in America” movie even is anymore, while Gen Z correspondent Matthew Frank (writer of our coming Crowd Pleaser newsletter about audience) unpacks how under-25s are actually discovering shows in the fast-twitch age of clips and feeds. And finally: Taylor Swift takes on Leonardo DiCaprio and Dwayne Johnson at the box office, exposing the industry’s Gen Z blind spot in real time.