{"id":5135,"date":"2020-07-15T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:32:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:32:36","slug":"were-the-kids-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/were-the-kids-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re the kids in America&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBEEyWRJcJs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember watching Digimon. I loved the whole Angemon thing. That first series was the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEN singing &#8220;Kids in America&#8221; was a great song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t allowed to listen to a lot of music, but that CD was one I got. (I remember reading a lot of songfics and singing the songs, trying to imagine how they should be sung because I&#8217;d never heard them. &#8220;Hurt&#8221; was used in that Xander fic that was like a different background color for every page and I devoured it word by word, it had to be like 200,000+. An unfinished Spander where they totally got together and had a happy ever after because there&#8217;s no other option that&#8217;s not terrible and sad.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can&#8217;t see the above YouTube video, it&#8217;s Billie Joe Armstrong covering &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VBEEyWRJcJs\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kids In America<\/a>&#8221; for his No Fun Mondays. He&#8217;s been covering all kinds of songs, and some of them are really really good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m always so envious of people that can sing. 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