2025 Pop Music
The only fictional girl group to chart a top 10 single in the US this year
HUNTR/X
A cognitive bias where people perceive individuals as more attractive when they are in a group than when seen alone
Cheerleader effect
To let your friend borrow your wig
Share the hair
Oxford - online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive
Rage bait
The idea that your entire life is a TV show being filmed is the main concept of this movie
The Truman Show
2025 is this artist's 4th time being Spotify's global top artist in the last 6 years
Bad Bunny
Getting a positive beneficial response after unknowingly taking just a sugar pill would be an example of this effect
Placebo effect
To release the redwood from prison
Free the tree
Dictionary.com - Perhaps the most defining feature of this word is that it’s impossible to define. It’s meaningless, ubiquitous, and nonsensical.
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The idea that your emotions are a bunch of characters fighting to take control drives the character's actions in this movie
Inside Out
This male artist is the common denominator among 2 of the top 3 songs of the year
Bruno Mars
If you got in an accident and there was a single pedestrian that saw, you're probably in better hands than if there were 10 pedestrians due to this effect
Bystander effect
To reveal the olfactory organ
Expose the nose
Merriam Webster - Digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.
Slop
Special relativity is the main factor that causes this movie's main character's daughter to out-age him
Interstellar
This top US song of the year is the only American hip hop song in the top 10 global songs of the year, and starts "If this world were mine"
Luther
Thinking that the drawer you built has higher value than one you'd buy pre-made is an example of this effect, named from the Swedish furniture store
IKEA effect
To council the fellas
Advise the guys
Collins - The use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code
Vibe coding
The concept of reprinting a human with its memories intact for expendable jobs is the core mechanic of this movie's main character
Mickey 17
Many critics described this song as formulaic and "mundane", which is synonymous with the name of this commercially successful top 5 song of the year
Ordinary by Alex Warren
Thinking (mistakenly) that the Monopoly Man wears a monocle, or mis-remembering the quote as "Luke, I am your father" are examples of this effect
Mandela effect
To follow behind the shelled gastropod
Trail the snail
Cambridge - Involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence
Parasocial
Parallels in the experience of the Irish, the Choctaw, and African Americans is central to this movie's themes
Sinners