In a world hell-bent on going cordless, where even our toothbrushes want to sync with the cloud, one tangling accessory is making a huge comeback among the cool kids of the town. Behold the wired headphones: once cast aside as the 90s skinny jeans, they’re now dangling from the ears of every fashion elite because the cord is the couture. From Shahid Kapoor and BLACKPINK’s Rosé to Bella Hadid carrying it like the coolest thing, here’s why celebs are preferring wired headphones!
The Comeback Of Wired Headphones
Like a plot twist in a rom-com where the supposedly outdated ex shows up at the airport looking inexplicably hotter, the wired headphone is no longer just a relic of a pre-Bluetooth era—it’s now the ultimate fashion plot device. Gen Z, that cheeky, contrarian cohort of digital natives with a vintage soul, has reached back into the collective cultural drawer of early 2000s tech and pulled out what might be the most unexpected ‘it’ accessory of the decade.
Celebrities including Bella Hadid, Lily-Rose Depp, Zoë Kravitz, and Jennifer Lawrence have been seen sporting wired headphones recently. Nostalgia is crucial in the rebirth, but so is sprezzatura, studied carelessness, being effortlessly elegant, seeming and remaining unbothered. “For mainstream stars and musicians, wired headphones are more than a style statement. It’s basically what we define functional fashion to be. A tech accessory taking the top spots on trend charts, wired headphones make life easier, being that one less thing to charge. It’s also a way back to nostalgia, a reminder of something that screams Y2K to us,” Jasveen Kaur Sawhney, Associate Editor, Hauterrfly, shares.
Celebs Opting For Wired Headphones
Even BLACKPINK’s Rosé isn’t immune to the charm of the chords. In an interview with British Vogue, she confessed that charging anything beyond her phone feels like an emotional burden—and honestly, same. Enter: the wired headphone. No battery anxiety, no blinking lights, no forgotten charging case. Just a good old-fashioned plug-and-play experience that fits perfectly into Rosé’s minimalist-meets-messy-genius energy.
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Meanwhile, Bollywood stars are not behind on this trend either. More often than not, Shahid Kapoor is seen walking at the airport in a sleek look with his OG wired earphones, unbothered and looking totally cool. Lily-Rose Depp made headlines simply by being seen with her white iPhone earbuds, like some kind of fashion-forward time traveller from 2007. The message is clear: Wired is weirdly wonderful again.
So the next time someone sneers at your humble corded companions, let them scoff. Because while they’re tapping their battery headphones in a futile attempt to connect, you’re already vibing—tethered to your phone, sure, but also to a sensibility that prizes style over status, substance over sleekness, and the sheer, chaotic joy of a perfectly tangled mess.
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