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How To Have A Brat Summer.

How To Have A Brat Summer.

Jul 22, 2024
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If last summer was glass skin and Barbie, this summer is throwing the vape you keep up your sleeve in the garbage and lighting a Marlboro red on the street (after an after) at seven in the morning while you wait for your Uber home.

As the memes blow, every week, Billy Joel could write a new, “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” The world is messed up, and we need to break ourselves down to the bones of who we are to mentally deal with this shit.

What is BRAT SUMMER?
I asked Supermodel Billionaire what her thoughts were:
“Brat summer is like romanticizing your life, but instead of romanticizing, you are iconizing your life. Everything can be done in an iconic, it-girl way. Even in depression and existential crises. Try something new, make a bold choice every day, and remember to leave your house.”

Now is the time to look at the boundaries we’ve been given by ourselves and others and reassess their importance. Now is the time to be self-centered and ask for what we want and have worked hard for. Now is the time that the feral rat in us can use its cunning rat brain to decipher how far we can stretch and be true to our needs.

A Brat Summer is fun-focused; it’s our time to indulge in the little things we love that should not affect anyone else. By unapologetically embracing our individuality, we are all icons.

I’ve compiled a list to make this Brat Summer 24’ so good you will be able to write your own, “We Didn’t Start The Fire.”

  • Cancel dating apps.

  • Leave your house every day.

  • Binge watch SKINS on HULU

  • Binge watch BABY on NETFLIX

  • Listen to full albums only. No mixes.

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