Best Of You by The Foo Fighters

 

Over ten thousand years ago human beings began domesticating and cultivating grass species, leading to our eventual dietary dependence on grains.

At about the exact same time human beings began raising livestock and using their milk to make foods like cheese.

The Etruscans start making a rudimentary version of pasta around 400 BCE.

In the 14th century people begin combining pasta and dairy products in a way that we would now recognize as Macaroni and Cheese. Over the next six centuries the recipe spreads across Europe and to the Americas, becoming a culinary delight and staple of many diets.

In 1937 Kraft releases the first processed, boxed version of Macaroni and Cheese. A food that has been in development for ten thousand years becomes a household staple, but the new version is devoid of any nutritional value outside of providing cheap calories. It tastes like it kinda tastes like macaroni and cheese, but it doesn't taste like macaroni and cheese.

300,000 years ago human species begin developing the social constructs of culture, which increases our sociability and cooperation, giving us a strong advantage over competing species. This is accomplished through language and oral tradition, and music is developed as a way of transmitting cultural information.

In the late 19th century the music of African Americans begins to influence mainstream culture. The music splinters into blues, gospel, and eventually jazz.

By 1937, about the time that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese appears on the human timeline, the music pioneered by African Americans has morphed into the prototype of what we widely recognized as rock and roll music a few decades later.

After years of commercialization rock music takes a sudden turn in late 1991 when Nirvana disrupt the mainstream with a subversive approach that refreshes the medium. But by 1994 that band's leader is dead, and drummer Dave Grohl develops his own band, the Foo Fighters. The eventually become one of the most successful rock and roll bands as that genre slowly loses cultural relevance during the ascension of rap as a form of popular music.

In 2005 the Foo Fighters release the single 'Best of You'. It is a sappy song which expresses a grotesquely superficial sense of self empowerment, while draining all power from the rock and roll genre. It sounds like it sounds like rock and roll, without actually sounding like rock and roll.