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For nearly a century, coming of age in America meant getting behind the wheel. To many, it was a far more important milestone than voting or legal drinking. This world, familiar to anyone who has seen American Graffiti , the paean to teen driving , was unique to the U. This was in part because in the midth century there was a wealth of available cars—cheap used ones from the late s—as well as the fact that by , American teenagers were more likely to be attending high school than working. Elsewhere, year-olds rode bikes or buses and had jobs. Practically nowhere else on earth did teens have the means—and, as high-school students and not full-time workers, the time—to join the adult world of automobility. Some young car enthusiasts remain today, but American teens have as a whole moved on.

American Teen is the debut studio album by American singer Khalid. In October , the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA for accumulating over one million in combined pure sales and album-equivalent units. The lead single from the album, called " Location " was released on January 26, The promotional single "Reasons" was released on December 2, , but was not included on American Teen.

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J ohn Feldmann is as close as pop-punk gets to a super-producer, a svengali in spiky hair and board shorts. How do you pen a song that will conquer both the moshpit and the charts? Pop-punk came from the ashes of the dying grunge scene, which was a very heavy scene. Pearl Jam came out of Mother Love Bone, whose lead singer died of an overdose. The mood at the time was anarchistic, nihilistic, political, very serious.