To me this song is depressing and hopeful at the same time. On one hand, they're saying that the Internet has indeed killed the way music used to be and has changed us as a generation (everyone thinking they're important and "everything we're doin no ones' ever done before"). But on the other, they're saying that because the Internet has brought information to the people in a way nothing ever did before, kids are now feeling free to discover music they wouldn't necessarily have if pop music was still entirely in the hands of MTV, and that at heart music fans will still have the same heart, even if the music doesn't. We're more free but less free at the same time because of the Internet, which I think is a really interesting observation.
To me this song is depressing and hopeful at the same time. On one hand, they're saying that the Internet has indeed killed the way music used to be and has changed us as a generation (everyone thinking they're important and "everything we're doin no ones' ever done before"). But on the other, they're saying that because the Internet has brought information to the people in a way nothing ever did before, kids are now feeling free to discover music they wouldn't necessarily have if pop music was still entirely in the hands of MTV, and that at heart music fans will still have the same heart, even if the music doesn't. We're more free but less free at the same time because of the Internet, which I think is a really interesting observation.