Times They Are A Changin'- Or Recycled

I was fascinated with this lil emo bitch from the first day I saw her show "My Life As Liz" premiere on MTV. I still have no clue if this is a legitimate reality show (if there is such a thing), a mock reality show that reenacts her real-life drama orrr if I even know the difference between the two. All I really know is this Liz Lee character is a full-blown bad ass and I kind of want to be her. ESPECIALLY after watching the episode where Liz showcases her Cat Power- esque pipes and Karen O- reminiscent stage presence while singing her rendition of the oldie but goodie indie fav “the funeral” by a little band named Band of Horses.

And I’m pretty sure and I share my Liz Lee obsession with every teenage buzznet.com emo princess in America (along with that Band Of Horses album) but for the first time my unoriginality feels entirely awesome. Hooray for MTV for starting to stray away from those conventional looking, uninspired, sheltered rich kid morons of Laguna Beach (you know, the show where Heidi Montage made her debut/i.e. before she completely lost her shit).

Maybe MTV thought it was time to give teenagers some “reality” that actually mattered-- the type of stuff that could inform and persuade healthy ideals and encouraging standards in the young minds of their viewers. Or maybe a couple people at MTV felt a tiny bit of pity for Crazy Face Heidi after repetitively youtubing her dateline interview and decided that from now on they would only give the limelight to people with brains. Or mayyyybe they knew that being an Alt/Emo/Indie/Hipster/Whatever You Want to Call It Kid is now mainstream enough that making a show that chronicles the life of one would guarantee decent ratings.
Which to 90’s kid knowledge could very well be the case here, recalling we haven’t seen a show like this since My So Called Life in 1994 when grunge was at the forefront.

So here it is again then-- a generation that celebrates being a nonconformist, articulate, artistic, individualistic, alternative badass.
And I truly could not be more excited about it.