We're Very Afraid of 'Millennial Expert' Chelsea Krost [Kids These Days]

We couldn't come up with a way to cover this New York Observer interview with self-described "millennial expert" Chelsea Krost, who is only 21 years old but already somewhat of an established spokesperson on all things teen and twenty-something, without being really, really mean. So we'll let Krost speak for herself. Here are five choice excerpts, presented without comment:

On her skills:

"My expertise," she told The Observer recently, "is that I'm a chameleon. I could talk to Tyra Banks, Anderson [Cooper], Hoda [Kotb] on the Today show, but then I could be relating to the people where, literally, their feet are in their own feces in Africa, in the slums."

On her career goals:

She reported, perhaps predictably, that she's after a large platform all her own, to be the next Oprah Winfrey, "but with a twist. As amazing as Oprah is, she was always untouchable, she's like a god, and I want to be very touchable-and not in, like, a pedophile way."

More about her multifaceted talent:

Once people meet me," said Ms. Krost, "they realize that I can really be articulate in many facets of the world: entertainment, or philanthropy, or something practical, like cyberbullying or whatever. I really don't think there's anything I can't do."

On her decor:

A single book was displayed, cover-out: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. A framed photo depicted Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. A Life magazine with Marilyn Monroe on the cover sat on the coffee table. In the corner lay a stack of her memoirs, one of which she gave us.

On feminism:

We also asked Ms. Krost about the so-called War on Women, a wedge issue in the 2012 campaign. She declared that she is not a feminist, because she doesn't think boys suck. (She's known her current boyfriend since the eighth grade.) However, she has been inspired by the struggles of women in Saudi Arabia; she believes in Girl Power; and she suspects the state of the nation might have been better had Hillary Clinton been elected.

"Women can multitask better," she explained. "I think multitasking equals success. You have to be able to balance multiple things in order to achieve your goals. You can't focus on one thing forever. You can't. So, learning how to multitask is probably the biggest life lesson."

Voice of a Generation: Chelsea Krost Speaks for the Millennials, Gets Talk Show Bookings [NYO]

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More Cheery Millennial News: 18-29-Year-Olds Aren’t Even Close to Fledging [Generation Y]

A casual perusal of our finest, financially destitute journalistic publications will most likely yield some pretty dismal information about the economy and how god-awful it is. The economy is so bad, we are told, that it is going out of its way to destroy an entire generation's hopes and dreams — millennials, as it turns out, are the economy's most bruised and battered victims and, according to a new national survey of 1,029 people ages 18-29, many millennials have already had their poor, fragile spirits crushed under the economy's bootheel.

The data collected from the survey comes as the latest wave of research in a burgeoning field of study, the new stage of development politely called "emerging adulthood" (although I think we all know enough frozen banana stand managers and struggling magicians to know what this stage is really called). People already mired in or preparing to enter their 20s are feeling a lot of pressure to become financially independent, even though that remains an elusive goal. A little more than half of the respondents said they feel anxious pretty much all the time, while 65 percent said that their lives are "full of uncertainty." 82 percent did, however, put a more positive spin on all this uncertainty, believing that it opened up more possibilities for the future.

Respondents also reported a lingering reliance on their parents' bank accounts — though 38 percent said they were financially fledged, 16 percent reported frequent financial support from their parents, while 31 percent reported receiving support "occasionally." Many of the respondents are starting to put less value on a college education, with 66 percent saying that it's possible to get a good job without dabbling in higher education.

It's a pretty popular trope in recession scribblings to bemoan the lack of initiative that millennials seem to exhibit. Bret Stephens, the Wall Street Journal's cantankerous cephalopod of a columnist, recently excoriated Gen Y's latest graduating class on its inability to name U.S. presidents to his satisfaction, and in the New York Times "The Go-Nowhere Generation" lamented a sedentary, aimless generation of hopeless homebodies eternally shuffling zombie-like through their parents' basements in footsie pajamas. Maybe millennials really are the worst group of people to ever be born, but they're still in the thick of establishing themselves — we should probably wait to evaluate the ascending generation until the older one dies off. Like the dinosaurs, who are also dead and in no position to criticize anyone for not being as cold-blooded and interesting-looking as they were.

Many ‘emerging adults' 18-29 are not there yet [USA Today]

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