There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

