confused and tired

every generation has a stereotype. the love generation is stereotyped as a bunch of mindless nieve tree hugging burned out hippie acid heads. generation x is stereotyped as a bunch of whiney, jaded, cynical, lazy "slackers". ......the baby boomer generation is stereotyped as a bunch of senile nostalgic geezers who are always saying "when i was a boy...". ....and my generation.....the "millenial" generation....whats our label? i think im starting to understand and it makes me a little frustrated and dissillusioned. we are the "Spoiled "generation. the Hopeful Generation. the "Whiney Suburban Yuppie Kid Generation WHo Doesnt REally Have ANything To Complain About". generation Hot Topic. generation Expensive Clothes Are In. these are our labels...and when we try to escape them we are accused of $self pity$. when we try to become real people with real emotions..("teen angst")..the establishment gets confused cause they cant comprehend the fact that we might actually be human beings. and who is the establishment.....? the establishment is everyone who tries to tell us who we are. the establishment is everyone who stereotypes us along with all the other generations. suffocating under all the labels i can fucking breathe. this is not who i am. this is not who WE are! are we the slaves of the hipster elite? are we the serfs....slaving and toiling under the yokes of Rolling Stone Magazine and Newsweek and everything Hip....so that we wont be Unhip?

often the label for a generation is determined by whatever the mainstream does. people call generation x the slacker generation because grunge was once very very popular. now all the hipsters make fun of slackers..... and all of generation x. 9 or 10 years ago....before kurt died....those same hipsters were singing praises to Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Grunge and Generation X. now they all have jobs as hip hip journalists in Spin, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone.now they all talk shit about it all. and much of my generation just swallows it all up like dogs begging for crumbs.

its the hipsters who are the kings of mainstream society....they sit in their office thrones in newsweek/esquire/rolling stone magazine headquarters........sending out royal decrees declaring this or that person "UNHIP.".

.....theres an interesting pattern though.....the thing about pop stars...is that to stay popular they have to keep reinventing themselves to hold the interest of their ADD mainstream audience. why do you think that NSYNC puts on different costumes for every song?

on the one hand, some people argue that No Doubts constantly changing wardrobe is part of their evolution as artists. (one of these people wrote me hate mail, which is why i have changed this paragraph.) but based on their status and history as extremely mainstream pop stars, i have to conclude that they change their "look" to keep up with the publics short attention span.

No Doubt made it hip to look "punk", but it still isnt hip to actually BE punk. Avril and Pink are, quite obviously, copying her every move (though Pink is really slutty).

mainstream society has a microscopic attention span. its obsessed with an artist/ person/ band/ rock star/ movement for a few weeks and then all of a sudden its not hip anymore. all of a sudden korns "sad act is getting old" (rolling stone). all of a sudden "corporate pop is fading fast." (SPIN). all of a sudden Garage Rock is the New THing....as if the mainstream will remain forever loyal to the strokes and the Hives. BULLSHIT. in a couple years everyone will abandon them for the next Big Thing...the same way people abandonded Nirvana for Britney Spears. maybe it will be a Reggea Revolution. maybe it will be The Grunge Revival. maybe it will be the Return of Swing/ Jazz. it will be whatever MTV pulls out of its ass. !

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