The word insouciant has appeared in 22 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 13 in “36 Things That Stuck With Us in 2024.” The article includes a brief description by Zachary Woolfe, the classical music critic of The New York Times, about a lyric from a pop song:
The earworm that stuck in me this year was an insouciant, playground-sing-song line from “360,” the first track on Charli XCX’s summer blockbuster “Brat.” Even knowing that “I’m everywhere, I’m so Julia” refers to the it-girl model and actress Julia Fox, Charli’s friend, doesn’t make the surreal expression any less sweetly enigmatic, as her name is lingered over for eight delicious, karaoke-ready syllables.
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