I see it more as a matter of growing up an coming into a position economic and political power.  It's happening with the Xers, it will happen with the Millenials, and every generation after that.

In my sister's time in high school in the mid-90s, it apparently wasn't strange at all to play Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" at a high school dance (tastefully edited for a school event, of course).

I saw it well beyond the time when I should have identified with it, but I liked it.  It's a bit melodramatic, and it perhaps over-emphasizes the us v. them, punker-than-thou mentality that I never found too evident among my punk cohorts - it was more a form of music than everyone I knew happened to like rather than a…

Meet Me Halfway.

Well it was no longer undercover because Pistone was removed by the FBI at that point, right?  Aside from showing off, I figured the purpose of that was so that one of the gangsters would contact the FBI later to cut a deal in exchange for information.

Intro and Midnight City.  Like M83 inviting you on its magical, mystery tour of dreams, and the second song is its first stop.  

Still picking up broken plate shards for eternity.

Ugh, that bitch Angela shot me.

Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks.

Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks.

Hmmm,  I thought Attack On Nothing was moodier and had more grittier tracks than Celebration Rock.

Hmmm,  I thought Attack On Nothing was moodier and had more grittier tracks than Celebration Rock.

Because there are a lot more albums made in a year than movies.

Because there are a lot more albums made in a year than movies.

If it was pitchfork, they'd be dismissive of Gotye and praising the pop genius of Carly Rae.

If it was pitchfork, they'd be dismissive of Gotye and praising the pop genius of Carly Rae.

Ten years from now, AVClub will be doing retrospective analyses of current youth-oriented shows like iCarly, Hannah Montana, the same way they have for Clarissa Explains It All, Pete & Pete, etc.  And when that happens, you people who already consider yourselves old, will have no place here anymore.  AVClub, I'm…

Ten years from now, AVClub will be doing retrospective analyses of current youth-oriented shows like iCarly, Hannah Montana, the same way they have for Clarissa Explains It All, Pete & Pete, etc.  And when that happens, you people who already consider yourselves old, will have no place here anymore.  AVClub, I'm…

I'm 30.  I used to listen to punk a lot when I was a teenager, but I moved on to indie rock in college.  Pop punk got too pop for my tastes back then, so I left it behind.

I'm 30.  I used to listen to punk a lot when I was a teenager, but I moved on to indie rock in college.  Pop punk got too pop for my tastes back then, so I left it behind.