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On The Count Of Three did both irony-to-earnestness and on-the-nose usage with this song, which is great. I eagerly await a teen sex comedy that uses Nookie as a runner.

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I was just thinking the other day about how I want to see a Vince Mancini essay about how mainstream rock was briefly inundated by white guys singing about suicide in the early 2000s. Even Blink 182 did it! Blink 182!!

Off the top of my head:

"Last Resort" - Papa Roach

"Adam's song" - Blink 182

"Hold on" - Good Charlotte

"Youth of the Nation" - POD

"Nothing to lose" - Billy Talent (not sure how big this was outside of Canada but it was huge here)

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Like, don't kill yourself or whatever, but this is one of the worst lyrics ever written:

"Remember the time I spilled a cup of apple juice in the hall,

Please tell mom this is not her fault"

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I think about that every time I hear it. Like were they disallowed from a second draft at gunpoint? I think the white guys singing about suicide craze of the early 2000s eerily mirrored the white guys falling in love with lesbians crazy of the late 90s. (Kevin Smith, Weezer, Reel Big Fish...)

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I earnestly enjoyed all of those. What? You were never 14-20 years old?

Not to go all Neil Degrasse Tyson on you but wasn't Youth of a Nation about school shootings?

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The third verse is about a lonely kid who thinks about suicide, so I'm counting it.

And yeah, I was a teenager at that time so I do actually like most of that music (the butt-rock era, I call it). Just it's retroactively weird.

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God I forgot about POD. My neighbor was super into them and I could never understand it. I like to think I could sense the Christian without knowing.

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I bought w/e CD "Southtown" was on and it was by far my biggest regret. It super sucked, and I really liked some awful stuff back then.

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I’m not sure if it was the first time I heard the song, but I have a vivid memory of hearing that song in an episode of Smallville with a guy obsessed with bugs.

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