What’s the defining Millennial song?
5/26/20261 hr 4 min
We weigh the options and attempt to pick the one song that best captures the Millennial generation's experience, from the dizzying highs of the dot-com boom, when anything seemed possible, to the post-9-11 bust, the hope of the Obama years, and prolonged period of generational disillusionment.
NPR Music millennials Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce join host Robin Hilton.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Sheldon Pearce· Panelist0:44
Hello, Robin.
Speaker 00:45
And Hazel Sills.
Hazel Cills· Panelist0:47
Hey.
Speaker 00:47
So you all have a very tall order for this episode. We are going to attempt to crown a single song for an entire generation, uh, millennials specifically. Did you understand that that's what you were signing up for when you agreed to do the show?
Sheldon Pearce· Panelist1:05
I did, I did understand.
Speaker 01:06
The look on your face tells me, "Are we?"
Sheldon Pearce· Panelist1:08
[laughs] [laughs] I'm, uh, I, I am proud to be on the, uh, millennial panel deciding- [laughs] The song for our whole community.
Hazel Cills· Panelist1:15
I'm imagining, I'm imagining Sheldon, like, pushing his glasses- [laughs] [laughs] ... Up the bridge. "This is really serious work."
Sheldon Pearce· Panelist1:22
This, this very important undertaking.
Speaker 01:24
[laughs] The definitive millennial song, we will crown it here. Well, this is a, this is the