MCA, whois one third of the Beastie Boys. And I experience this epiphany that sheds neutron beams of new light on said question. Most teenagers enjoy a heavily structured life, are threatened by deviations from the conforming norm and will ridicule those enamored of deviating from the conforming norm. In this way, most teenagers are exactly like most adults, the only difference being that teenagers piss their lives away in high school while adults piss their lives away in corporations.
Most teenagers do, after all, grow up to be most adults.
The wife of Senator Albert Gore and cofounder of the Parents' Music Resource Center, I reply. The music biz needs Senator Gore to protect it from digital audio tape, and Gore needs the music biz so he can denounce lyrics about beer and sex and drugs and look good to the wacko right. I think they don't understand what we're saying. Which sounds plausible, until you actually listen to the record, the charm of which is that it's utterly blatant. Total, unexpurgated insistence on teenage experience, without regard for ideology, the FCC or Mom-and it's at the top of the charts after years of unrelieved unrequited love and guitar fascism from multiplatinum bombinators.