I just relistened to REM’s Stand and was going to make a point about its groundedness and “college rock” and the “weird 80s” (David Lynch and Paul Reubens and John Waters and the B-52s etc.) and how they were based in these specific sidestreams

But then the playlist continued to It’s The End Of The World and look at that video! Look at that twink! LOOK AT THAT TWINK, how fucking straight were we that this seemed unremarkable, we were at least supposed to feel weird when Calvin Klein ads cheekily referenced underage porn in the 90s