First, Nicoleta recommends checking out coastal grandmothers in media: Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give, Jane Fonda in Book Club, Diane Lane in Nights in Rodanthe, and Reese Witherspoon in Home Again. Coincidentally, Netflix announced this week that a new Meyers film is coming.
The visual element of being a coastal grandmother is aspirational, Nicoleta said.
“It’s a marriage of everything that I am and everything that I want to be: fresh flowers in the living room, making coffee in the morning, listening to cozy music,” she said. “I was getting comments like, ‘you just described MY grandmother’ or ‘life goals,’ and I could see that it was resonating with people.”
Nicoleta studied journalism in college and now works to take care of her home as well as in her family’s agriculture business. She said the sheer breadth of coastal grandmother content she produced isn’t an attempt to brand herself as the leader of a movement, but to encourage others in “cultivating happiness throughout your day.” She hopes to bring that same feeling to her TikTok community by swapping lifestyle tips and hosting movie nights.
Nicoleta’s 79-song coastal grandmother Spotify playlist has nearly 50,000 followers and includes the greatest hits of Frank Sinatra, Otis Redding, Norah Jones, and John Legend. The quintessential coastal grandmother song is, of course, “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” by Natalie Cole.
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kelseyweekman/coastal-grandmother-aesthetic-lex-nicoleta