Popular media is no longer a museum for adult tastes. It is a high school hallway—loud, hormonal, confusing, and moving very, very fast. Whether you are 15 or 50, if you want to understand the culture of tomorrow, you have to listen to the teens of today. Because right now, the remote control belongs to them.

"Because it’s real," Jax said. "When you stream something, it comes from a server farm a thousand miles away. It’s data. But radio? Radio is a wave. It travels through the air. It’s right here, right now. It’s… connection."