I really hate the song "I wish I was a punk rocker" by Sandi Thom.

Rant in brief.

It waxes lyrical about a period which the singer has no knowledge of, not far back enough to be pure longing, but recent enough to claim part ownership of.

It is defeatist. We know how that era turned out, and the impact that these people had, but the singer is more interested in the trappings of the period, and belonging than actually achieving anything.

It is stridently defiant, when there is no one interested in registering opposition.