Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music

The music sounds like it has nothing to prove because the kids making it have nothing to prove. It enacts leisure because its authors come from a background of leisure. And the kids performing onstage don’t care about earning your attention or respect because they’re not accustomed to earning anything. It’s an entire artistic movement of, for, and about the bourgeoisie at a time when everyone in America is living anything but the lifestyle of the rich, famous and bored.

Chris Milam, “Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music
Pop Matters, October 26, 02009