The Who got lucky.
The generation of the 1960s was fairly well defined. “My Generation” didn’t have to be all that specific for its point to be made. But if the band had been born in 1990, would they have had anything to say about my generation? Is there really anything my peers and I share that unites and separates us from our neighboring generational brethren? Well, maybe, but the anthem probably would’ve turned out more like Richard Hell’s “Blank Generation” than their own 1965 classic.
