Just 25 Obviously Metamodern Titles

By Troy Hiduke Campbell

Album by Bo Burhnam

This series presents a wide range of things that are metamodern to help you better understand and create for the metamodern people of today.

I often like sharing overtly obvious examples of metamodernism. So here are just 25 titles of different famous things that have an overt metamodern sensibility to them.

There's no commentary, just some exposure and more proof that the metamodern themes of oscillating, ironesty, and interiority have become so prevalent you can see them directly in the titles of some of the most mainstream artworks of the 21st century.

Writing epic title to daily chores,

-Troy-

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1. Am I a Girl? - Album - Poppy (2018)

2. Bon Iver, Bon Iver - Album - Bon Iver (2011)

3. Everything Everywhere All At Once - Movie - Daniels (2022)

4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Movie - Michel Gondry (2004)

5. Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Album - Modest Mouse (2004)

6. Grand Budapest Hotel - Movie - Wes Anderson (2014)

7. Happy & Sad - Song - Kacey Musgraves (2018)

8. Happy, Sad, Confused - Podcast - Josh Horowitz (2014)

9. Hit Me Hard and Soft - Album - Billie Eilish (2024)

10. Hybrid Theory - Album - Linkin Park (2000)

11. Inside - Comedy Special/Movie - Bo Burnham (2021)

12. Inside Out - Movie - Pete Docter (2015)

13. Laughing With a Mouth of Blood - Song - St. Vincent (2009)

14. Me and You and Everyone We Know - Movie - Miranda July (2005)

15. Melodrama - Album - Lorde (2017)

16. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Album - Kanye West (2010)

17. No One Belongs Here More Than You - Book - Miranda July (2007)

18. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Book - Ocean Vuong (2019)

19. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Movie - Edgar Wright (2010)

20. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Movie - Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman (2018)

21. The Anthropocene Reviewed - Book - John Green (2021)

22. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Movie - Joel and Ethan Coen (2018)

23. This Is Happening - Album - LCD Soundsystem (2010)

24. To Pimp a Butterfly - Album - Kendrick Lamar (2015)

25. You Are Here: For Now - Book - Whitney Hanson (2021)

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Send me metamodern things at troy@hidukehouse.com

Metamodern Things is part of Hiduke House, where I use a scientific mind, artistic heart approach to help people learn and make amazing things. I am a behavioral science PhD, designer, marketer, former Disney Imagineer, founder of Hiduke House, and current chief scientist at On Your Feet.

This series exists, because I believe the metamodern sensibility, with its characteristics of oscillation, meta-awareness, and a focus on felt experience is one, if not the biggest, evolving change to our contemporary and future culture, that we still don't fully understand and know how to use. I aim to change that.

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