Hardcore kids, giving it up for Miley Cyrus. Still via Videogum.

America seems divided. On one hand, there’s your younger sister — a former Power Puff Girls fan who has shifted her affection to the Taylor Swifts and Miley Cyruses that wallpaper the pink rooms of teeny-bopper queens the world over. She has three friends whom she only calls by obscure nicknames. The phone is always in use. On the other hand, there’s your unemployed older brother. He’s tattooed, got attitude, won’t go to church on Sundays, thinks maybe working as a line cook would be a pretty good deal. He reads Kierkergaard, smokes cigarettes, dates women who your mother says look like racoons, what with all their dark eyeliner.

And yet sometimes, in America, you all sit at the dinner table together. And you understand why he doesn’t want to work. And you like his tattoos. And you think maybe your sister isn’t so shallow, that maybe all she wants is to seek out beauty like we all do, to live in a fluffy, happy world.

In the video below, we see hardcore metalheads in Atlanta — you know, your older brother’s type — in a moment of rare, un-ironic love for their little American sisters.

At a show for hardcore bands Trapper Trapped Under Ice, Cruel Hand, Naysayer, and Foundation some smart alec put on Miley Cyrus’ USA hit, “Party in the USA” and what did the boys do? Turn it off? Tear the speakers to pieces? (See that song’s original video here.) Nope, they unabashedly danced, hugged, and sang (nearly) every word. It’s your YouTube of the day. A sneak peek into the weirdness that is America’s Teenage Wasteland: