I've heard that he wrote this song after seeing a newspaper photo of someone in a protest kicking at the window of a Starbucks, and he was wearing Nikes. Doughty thought that this showed he was only doing that because it was trendy, like the shoes. James van der Beek and the Mowry sisters were examples of people who were trendy when the song was written, which was clearly a long time ago.
I've heard that he wrote this song after seeing a newspaper photo of someone in a protest kicking at the window of a Starbucks, and he was wearing Nikes. Doughty thought that this showed he was only doing that because it was trendy, like the shoes. James van der Beek and the Mowry sisters were examples of people who were trendy when the song was written, which was clearly a long time ago.