"We Are All Closing Time" by Steven Hyden - Grantland.com

Love this article. Basically explains the universality and enduring popularity of "Closing Time." Epic 90s song. I always pair it in my head for some reason with Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" which was the biggest song in the world for fucking ever in like 1998/99. Not kidding that song was inescapable for a full two years. And the irony was, it was a song about being lonely and having nobody understanding you at all, and yet seemingly every single person in the world loved it and understood it perfectly. Genius pop song. No bullshit. Iris.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/38262/we-are-all-closing-time-why-semisonics-1998-hit-still-resonates