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It also has been joined in recent years by a slew of other girl groups with growing profiles and unique personalities: Itzy, Aespa, Ive, and the most recent microgeneration, NewJeans and Le Sserafim.

If you’re not a member of the microgeneration able to bust out the chorus to the Spice Girls hit “Wannabe” from memory, there’s a good chance you have no idea who Mr. Roberts is.

The "microgeneration" was coined by Dan Woodman, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Moriondo is part of a microgeneration influenced by Ulven’s loud and uncomplicated transparency.

But unlike Lil Baby or YoungBoy Never Broke Again, rappers with intuitive, pained gifts for melody one microgeneration ahead of him, Wave is a true singer who also can rap, and whose cross-pollination between the two feels completely grounded in R&B principles — an anomaly among his peers.