10 Best Songs About Becoming An Adult

10. Whatsername - Green Day

Green Day's American Idiot has become a definitive record for the millennial generation. Though the album is a fairly intricate rock opera from front to back, many people forget any of the storylines and focus on how something like the title track or "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" defined their childhood. There may have been a lot of adolescent angst in these songs, but the album's closer is something a lot more mature than most expected out of pop punk.

Set at a chugging rhythm, this song finds our hero Jesus at a crossroads in his life, as he leaves the big city and moves on with his life. He may be back to a life of normality, but he can't help but reminisce about the good times he had with his old muse Whatsername. While he may have remembered her face, he can't recall anything that happened with her, whether it's a repressed memory or just the slow passage of time.

Seeing how this is a pop punk song, it makes sense for Jesus to win back his love, but he instead chooses to live his life as is, affirming that he'll never turn back time. Those years may in the rearview now, but the great times you had are what really endure.