pop culture or pop doldrums?

I remember when the only way you could be cool, was if you watched those shows and wore that brand and listened to that artist...

The top 40 hits were plastered over your walls in cheap Dolly magazine posters, and you thought you were the most popular girl in school if all the boys asked you to 'slow dance' at the Disco...



Then in high school, it became something else. You were popular if you were on the volleyball team and sat with the beautiful people, and got drunk every weekend at exclusive popular people parties... You now read Cosmopolitan and Vogue, and instead of playing with eachothers hair and doing nails you now glam yourselves up and take facebook and myspace photos together, in some girls bathroom, with all the right angles...



I spent much of my life observing these people, this strange, obscure breed of children who intended on ruling the world with 'good intentions'... Those girls that oozed a reality that I never knew... Something I noticed, now that I'm no longer forced to spend my days with people who never liked me nor respected me, this weird vice these people had on us as a whole, is gone.



Now you're cool if you're vintage and retrospective, if you listen to that hell exclusive underground semi grunge semi laid back acoustic band 'Something without a name' full of guys that are gay and hairy and wear thick rimmed glasses; or that 80's pop rock group with a antiestablishment vibe 'Never love lucy' and you wear a french hat and drink skinny machiato's in internet cafe's. It's now about the people who didn't matter in highschool. It's now those little, quiet people that only ever spoke loudly when the debate of dota or counterstrike came into play that really benefit from these years to come.



As soon as we walked out into the real world, we found that the ones in university and the ones at tafe that are in the same classes as us are not only intelligent, but have respect for the subtle differences in who we are as beings... It's not about being a generic fuckwit anymore, it's about 'Hey you can fire-twirl? thats fucking awesome' 'Hey you design your own drugs? Fucken aye buddeh'...



Noone wants to be the same anymore, because the reality of being the same is admitting you were just as fucking horrid and stagnant as all those pricks you wanted to shank in highschool. It means you're just like everyone you always hated, and will die like everyone you always hated. It's accepting defeat.



I am different, Im fucked, im warped and tapped and stupidly intelligent... And i wouldn't change a single decision I made in my entire life because it would risk me not being who I am today. All the qualities that I was once resented for, are now adored. It's not the things that are the same within me that grab everyone's attention... It's those special things that you just dont see now days.



So a message to the kids, don't be popular in highschool... Be remembered. Be different.