Millennial Makeover

Is Kanye Our Kurt?

In their book Millennial Makeover, Morley Winograd and Michael Hais look at the pictures of Generations X and Y painted by popular media. They suggest that the work ethic of the former is represented by the entrepreneurial “Joel Goodson” (Tom Cruise's character in Risky Business) while that of the latter is represented by the androgynously named, ideals-driven “Andy Sachs” (Anne Hathaway's character in The Devil Wears Prada). 

I posed a similarly themed question on Facebook and Twitter: “If Kurt Cobain is the [overarching] voice of Gen-X, then who/what best represents the voice of Gen-Y?” 

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