Our Lady Peace’s biggest hit – this is probably one of the buttrock songs off Gravity in many of the world’s pockets, but it was always, for me, this one – Superman’s Dead, released in 1997, lead single off sophomore album ‘Clumsy’. Bafflingly, the Canadian music video version wasn’t uploaded to Youtube until 2018 or 19.

The American version has the band performing for a bunch of clowns, where the excessively-green-tinged Canadian video relates a scenario regarding a boy stuck in a fabricated bedroom psychologically experimented on the while by, revealed late in the video, two middle-aged men. What’s the message? Unclear.

Kid Pen! was fascinated and frightened by this video. For an elementary-school-aged kid there was a real aura of mystery to media. Moreover, I think, upon reflection, a significant part of the reason I found it interesting is it helped me develop my understanding it might be OK to dress in ways which weren’t heteronormative. The boy in the video is, in the second half, dressed as a girl and puts on makeup. This was really interesting to me; I never felt 100% OK dressing in jeans and a t-shirt all the time. I just wasn’t – and am not – the kind of person who visually identifies wholesale with Dude Clothes.

That said, remember: the world is a subway.