It comes down to a correlation between youth, commerce, and disposability. When I think of pop stars who successfully crossed 30 and remained at the top of the game, there’s Beyoncé, Madonna, and uh, who else? Lorde - an actual teen who makes pop - has not been categorized as teen pop in the same way as Carly Rae Jepsen. But there is an unspoken rule that pop stars are done by 30 ( rappers get until 35). There is no invisible gauntlet that you cross on your 30th birthday that turns you into an adult. So why not wear the tennis skirts and saddle shoes? If Carly Rae Jepsen wore tailored suits instead of tennis skirts and saddle shoes, would people take her more seriously? No, because she makes a kind of pop music that a certain kind of person will never listen to anyway, because it reads as youthful and feminine. Certainly there have been times recently when I have wondered if I look less “college student pulling an all-nighter at the library” than “crazy Miss Havisham who no longer tolerates society’s rules,” but I would rather go out on the backs of a thousand Coachella hot moms than buy real pants. Maybe this is a California-ism - nobody here blinks twice if you dress like The Dude, and I do. As a person turning 33 in a couple weeks who still owns no professional-looking clothes of any sort and whose daily style consists of fuck-you flip-flops, elastic-waist shorts, and tank tops that came from pajama sets, I resent the very idea that you could possibly age out of any kind of fashion.
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