Pop-Punk Childhood
Recently, I was watching some YouTube video over people guessing the lyrics to early 2000s pop punk hits and I realized the first song I ever heard that led me down the path to a lot of decisions in my life. It might sound crazy but I'm almost positive that's the reason why so much of my life has been influenced in the way it has been. When I was younger, I had unrestricted internet access. It was around 2007, maybe 2008. Either way, I was given unrestricted access to the internet and especially unrestricted access to YouTube - the main way I watched Master Chef America with my beloved Cat Cora, a woman I will always be a fan of. I don't know exactly how I came across this video, it was probably just something that popped up in my recommended videos, but I thought I was the coolest kid in my class for listening to it. Check Yes Juliet by We the Kings had become my anthem. My mom will argue and say that it was The Middle by Jimmy Eat World but this is my story...