I'm not 100% sure, but I think this song is a more abstract extension of "At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys"... Five Iron's fans tend to be younger than them, and their style of music is the music of the young (frenzied, energetic, loud). But I'd guess Reese feels a greater cultural disconnect than ever with high school kids. And while the notoriously cynical HS generation of today whose jokes and subculture are hard to understand by those of us 10 or more years ahead of them, Reese is proclaiming that they're charging forward anyway, even trying (unsuccessfully) to participate in the youth subculture via these lyrics.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this song is a more abstract extension of "At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys"... Five Iron's fans tend to be younger than them, and their style of music is the music of the young (frenzied, energetic, loud). But I'd guess Reese feels a greater cultural disconnect than ever with high school kids. And while the notoriously cynical HS generation of today whose jokes and subculture are hard to understand by those of us 10 or more years ahead of them, Reese is proclaiming that they're charging forward anyway, even trying (unsuccessfully) to participate in the youth subculture via these lyrics.
Does that make any sense??
@joepinion I like this perspective
@joepinion I like this perspective