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Khalid Robinson made major commercial headway in early with "Location," a drowsy, teetering ballad the singer and songwriter seemed to deliver while lying on his bed, or maybe someone else's couch, eyes glued to his phone, just after waking up. In that song, and through much of what fills out American Teen , his debut album, Robinson 's not one to get worked up. He's in no particular rush, content to drift through life while accepting, and occasionally sort of celebrating, the present. There's not a whole lot of enthusiasm for revelry, dulled by substances, apathy, a combination of the two, or just the aspiration to look the part: "I'm so faded off of all the things I've taken, and maybe I'm not really drunk, maybe I'm really good at faking. After a nonchalant chorus that consists primarily of the song's title and a lethargic warble -- surprise -- he dumps one of his best melodies in the bridge.

Director Nanette Burstein originally reviewed more than different schools in the pre-production process, and ten schools replied, agreeing to participate. After she interviewed incoming seniors at all 10, she chose Warsaw. This documentary circles on the lives of five typical senior high students in a small town in Indiana--a heartthrob, an artist, a jock, a geek, and a popular girl. Filmed every day for 10 months, this documentary captures their inner workings and uncovers their insecurities, heartbreaks, struggles, cliques they belong to and deal with their weaknesses, and their fears about life beyond senior high. Some film critics have accused the director, Nanette Burstein, of giving the documentary a sensationalized feel, [7] and others have gone so far as to claim that the film feels scripted and the very presence of the cameras take the reality out of the situation.

Watch the video. See the full gallery. A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques. Any enjoyment I may have experienced watching this film was killed by a nagging doubt that what I was watching was authentic. Is it just me

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