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“Hello Baby!” is a timely reflection on the momentous events of the past year. Dynamic DJ duo HeartsRevolution’s video + song artfully combines footage from the Arab Spring and Occupy movements around the world with their new track. In typical Gen Y fashion, the ultimate message of the video is one of hope.

As headlines continue to declare unemployment, unstable currencies, and shrinking opportunities, Gen Y can’t help but remind, “it’s easy to forget it’s such a big beautiful world,” and “I promise it’ll be ok. We’re still on track.”

I am tired of hearing from the media about how much men want to be manly these days; I think it is kind of a farce, as does my boyfriend. Men my age are kind of like women my age—we are equally interested in the new Thor movie. We are equally making fun of the Dr Pepper 10 ad we saw on Superbowl Sunday.  We all want to BBQ. We want to learn how to make things and we both read Jezebel.

All this is why when I came across The Good Men Project magazine (while reading Jezebel), I was thrilled to have found something that actually reminds me of the Gen Y men I know and love. The magazine is dedicated the humbling pursuit of bettering mens magazines and men at large, features thoughtful articles on ‘being a man’ and all that that entails for today’s men. The magazine also donates 25% of its proceeds to at-risk boys. They even have a section on fatherhood. Good Men Project, take me to your leader?

It’s true that the days after the president’s sober announcement, Miley Cyrus filled Facebook feeds and tweets alike, not for smoking salvia or changing boyfriends, but for singing what those at the White House and Ground Zero were enacting. In the newest of New York magazine, Nitsuh Abebe  postulates on why “Party In The USA” as Osama Bin Laden’s death song.

Most Americans want to party, and most Americans wanted Bin Laden to die of something other than renal failure. Listening to this song as a festive assassination theme has a classic Bush-era “bring it on” quality: We cherish a solid excuse to indulge in a little high-spirited cockiness, chauvinism, and provincialism about the things we like and do well.