Why We Fight Returns:

This may be the best reason to read Pitchfork there is:

When it comes to taste, we're all amphibious: We can keep our feet in different places, enjoying different things. Get people talking together, though-- put us in some sort of context-- and you start noticing desires, sometimes collective ones. It's never as simple as a particular sound or trend. But it can be a mood or sensibility you're drawn to in lots of things-- like the kind of glowy, stoned escapism you might get from chillwave, disco edits, breezy Scandinavian pop, woozy L.A. hip-hop, or any number of other places. Or a sudden craving for metal and noise or something that feels sick. Or the search for something "smarter," or more aggressive, or more adult, or more political. Gravitating to the reptile instead of the boring old fish happens when one kid decides to dress more like this and less like that, and another kid's attracted to hanging out with these people instead of those.

It's beyond refreshing to read something that talks about what we want in terms of what we actually want instead of how we've been told to want it. Which itself folds into the theme, so read the whole thing.