One could argue for one decades-defining album and it'd always be about kids in the streets.

If 2014's 1989 was the epilogue of pop music, engineered by our newfound Madonna, now (2023) far surpassed her and forever established as the Taylor Swift, if all that, then 2012's Kids In The Streets set closure for iPod downloads and Napster mischiefs of hipster music.
Tyson Ritter himself opens in gloomy glamour "Someday's gone now, just let it go". The last album of it's genre, it thrives in authentic angst amidst production value and proper late-2000s glitter. It mourns as much as it celebrates, indeed it celebrates. While The Killers and CSS kept on stretching it out, the "american graffiti sins" had grown up.
2/5

If 2014's 1989 was the epilogue of pop music, engineered by our newfound Madonna, now (2023) far surpassed her and forever established as the Taylor Swift, if all that, then 2012's Kids In The Streets set closure for iPod downloads and Napster mischiefs of hipster music.
Tyson Ritter himself opens in gloomy glamour "Someday's gone now, just let it go". The last album of it's genre, it thrives in authentic angst amidst production value and proper late-2000s glitter. It mourns as much as it celebrates, indeed it celebrates. While The Killers and CSS kept on stretching it out, the "american graffiti sins" had grown up.
2/5