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What’s Your Gen Alpha Neighbor Listening To?

Eva (11), of Lowry Hill, recommends her favorite music

By Eva

9:13 PM CDT on August 3, 2026

WOW! Is it just me, or is the Uprise of pop music here?

For anyone my age, I sure hope you think it is!

Well, if you don’t already, you really should listen to…Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving, Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend and Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, and just wait for it, in January, pop music got taken up a notch with Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide, Harry Styles Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, Olivia Rodrigo’s You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, not to mention Ariana Grande and Gracie Abrams both released singles from their upcoming albums Daughter from Hell, and Petal, meanwhile Taylor Swift had a surprise appearance by producing a song called ”I Knew It, I Knew You” for the newly released Toy Story 5 (which is a pretty good movie).

So take my advice and listen to these songs and albums, and you will hear some of the best pop music ever, because pop music just went from awesome to AMAZING!

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