The dark humor in this song is more amusing when you envision people from the 80s (or earlier) being transported into 2010, and their ensuing culture shock.
Gotta love the creativity in his observations of America's pursuit to be individually identical. "Over-the-counter-culture" kinda says it all. I'm almost disappointed that he didn't include a "-gate" phrase to mock how every controversy nowadays is reported as a "[subject]gate," which annoys me for two reasons: first, half of the people alive today were not even born when Watergate happened, and second, Watergate literally had nothing to do with water!
DIY2K = portmanteau of Do-It-Yourself and Y2K.
Aristopunk = there's a hierarchy of, and qualifications to be, "punk" now -- even though the punk culture originated to reject notions of set-standards and pre-established aspirations.
Service-Sector BFA = a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree for the service industry, which is just so true it's sad.
Frankenfood = seriously, should "fusion" be so common in the food industry?
"Starbucks in the library" = SMH.
"Deviance is an industry that is allowed by the Powers that be" = Corporate schilling of notions that reject mass-production and set-standards
"Over-the-counter-culture" = Frankenphrase of "over-the-counter" (mass production, generally "safe") and "counter-culture" (which used to be underground and set aside from cultural norms, often considered "offensive," but now "counter-culture" is its own accepted norm).
While most of the song sounded cynical, at least the last verse expressed confidence that America can overcome these quirks. I'm not sure how he knows we can break off from the current path exactly, or maybe he didn't want to be a total downer?
The dark humor in this song is more amusing when you envision people from the 80s (or earlier) being transported into 2010, and their ensuing culture shock.
Gotta love the creativity in his observations of America's pursuit to be individually identical. "Over-the-counter-culture" kinda says it all. I'm almost disappointed that he didn't include a "-gate" phrase to mock how every controversy nowadays is reported as a "[subject]gate," which annoys me for two reasons: first, half of the people alive today were not even born when Watergate happened, and second, Watergate literally had nothing to do with water!
DIY2K = portmanteau of Do-It-Yourself and Y2K.
Aristopunk = there's a hierarchy of, and qualifications to be, "punk" now -- even though the punk culture originated to reject notions of set-standards and pre-established aspirations.
Service-Sector BFA = a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree for the service industry, which is just so true it's sad.
Frankenfood = seriously, should "fusion" be so common in the food industry?
"Starbucks in the library" = SMH.
"Deviance is an industry that is allowed by the Powers that be" = Corporate schilling of notions that reject mass-production and set-standards
"Over-the-counter-culture" = Frankenphrase of "over-the-counter" (mass production, generally "safe") and "counter-culture" (which used to be underground and set aside from cultural norms, often considered "offensive," but now "counter-culture" is its own accepted norm).
While most of the song sounded cynical, at least the last verse expressed confidence that America can overcome these quirks. I'm not sure how he knows we can break off from the current path exactly, or maybe he didn't want to be a total downer?