@silvercandra4275

1 year ago

I always interpreted this song to be about the generation Bo's dad belonged to. "He walks into a room and everyone respects him, he reads the news and doesn't let that shit effect him", "My oblivious white dad in the mid 80s", "My dad was happier than I am" The way that generation tends to talk to people younger than them, always makes it sound like we're whiny, (letting the news effect us), all the while they got things handed to them, when we have to fight to be respected. It feels like he's both idolizing that generation of people, while also calling them out for giving us crap, even though a lot of problems we have to deal with on a daily basis weren't a thing back then. "He's got a job and a family, how does he do it?" reminds me, someone who is thinking about having kids, that back then you could support a family with just one salary, when today, we need two just to pay for a tiny appartment. Then during the part where he goes "Wait..." he starts talking about how people still did have issues back then, people just both tend to forget about it because of nostalgia and they just dealt with them differently. Back then aids happened and everyone pointed at gay people, and now we're trying to solve the issue of gay people still being stigmatized... I dunno, to me personally, it just feels like he's kinda calling out both people who idolize those good old days that never existed, and the generation of people that were alive back then and are now giving younger people crap. Might just be my Gen Z point of view though.

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