Thank you, A*Teens

For your wonderfully awful 2001 album Teen Spirit.

For helping me ignore that freezing sting in my lungs while I finish up the third mile of my morning run.

For making me forget that November is happening soon.

For the terrified stares I got from the kids in my neighborhood waiting for the schoolbus, watching me lipsync to “Halfway Around the World” like my life depended on it.