Fuck The Glass Ceiling

Very Fresh “Cool Kids”

“Cool Kids” is basically a litany of social pressures, and the joke is that as Cindy Lou Gooden moves up the timeline from being a teenager into adulthood, it only gets more anxious and manic. She sings it all with a snide Jello Biafra-ish affect, broadly signaling contempt and dark humor, but not necessarily dismissing the actual feelings underneath the frenzied need to fit in and do what is expected. It’s presented as a joke because it is funny, but also because feeling like you need to do everything just right by a certain time or you’re an uncool failure is 100% ridiculous. Gooden is giving everyone permission to admit it and laugh at it and, hopefully, break free from it.

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