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Gen Z's ‘Borrowed Nostalgia' Is Reshaping Brand Marketing
Growing up with instant access to decades of archived content is compressing the nostalgia cycle for Gen Z, who now form emotional attachments to eras that predate their birth at a far higher rate than older generations. Two-thirds of Gen Z report this "borrowed nostalgia", compared with Gen X's tilt toward the 80s and millennials' toward the 90s and 2000s. Music ranks as the strongest trigger across generations, which is why campaigns like Gap's Katseye ad, built around Kelis's 2003 hit "Milkshake", land with both the generation that remembers the song and the one discovering it fresh.
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