“Something middle-aged men and teen-age girls have in common is the act of finding yourself, and being kind of self-conscious. Maybe some beliefs that you’ve held on to for a long time are finally being shed. The teen-age girl in me is obsessed with the National, and feels very spoken to and seen by them, maybe for the exact same reasons that they speak to middle-aged men.” --Phoebe Bridgers to Amanda Petrusich in the New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/the-sad-dads-of-the-national