Coming of Age
Lizzy Goodman wrote Meet me in the Bathroom, which is the quintessential book on the early 2000s rock music scene in New York City. Some of the most popular acts to emerge during this time included The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and LCD Soundsystem.
This scene was thriving and vivacious and a modern iteration of how ROWDY previous rock music scenes were like. And with just about every music scene, external world events heavily affected it.
When 9/11 happened, it changed the world and popular media for years to come. For the rock music scene of NYC, it came with an evolution, a resurgence, and a coming of age story.
I recently attended a virtual Q&A hosted by The New York Public Library where they had Lizzy Goodman share her experience as an author and growing up in NYC during a pivotal time in pop culture and history.
One of my biggest takeaways from this conversation was towards the end of the Q&A when she spoke about the nostalgia for this music scene and what it meant to her. The next words she said kinda changed my life (ok i’m being dramatic lmao for that moment at least).
“every coming of age story starts with loss”
In this statement, i felt seen and heard about what I’ve been feeling for the past 2 years since I last wrote in my blog. I have experienced loss and grief in ways that has transformed my view on life, the world, and myself. I am not the same person I was when I last wrote in this blog and that means a lot to me. It means that I’m growing and that this blog has become a way for me to create but also capture a moment in my life when I feel called to create.
In the next few blog posts, I’ll be exploring the theme of “coming of age” in music, its cultural impact, and its effect on me personally.
I’m back! I’m back with new ideas and perspectives that are ready to be shared with the world. There’s been so many instances of people turning their pain into power and I am ready to do that.
ps. I forgot how writing and reading my writing is so vulnerable ahhhhhh but hoping it can lead to awesome things.