Laufey Blends Genres as Part of "Sad Wasian" Trope, Bewitches Audience – The Oberlin Review
There’s been a trend that I’ve noticed recently about music, which I call the “sad Wasian” trope. Artists such as Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, and Conan Gray, who are half-Asian and half-white, have written songs alluding to their racial identities and the “otherness” that they’ve felt in their personal and romantic lives, often trying to find...
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