When I was growing up (around like 12 or 14 maybe?) I listened to a lot of Nu Metal. I played in a band in a friend's garage that covered Slipknot and KoRn and System of a Down, and I generally positioned my own teenage difficulties inside that ultra-specific USA-masculinist-performative malaise (a lot of hip hop from this period was confulent with Nu Metal). When I got older (around 18/19), I went to art school and started meeting people from way outside my lower middle class networks; kids my age who had grown up with parents who were painters or...