The American Dream

This song I feel is a positive representation of the american dream despite the lyrics 'what ever happened to the american dream' and 'cause jack left Dianne 30 years ago'. This song expresses the changing nature and flexibility of the American Dream, which inadvertently shows its lasting nature. In our world, as much as we'd like to imagine, nothing stays the same way for long, opinions change, feelings change, economic climates, fashion, architecture, race relations, music, art even the way that people talk change all the time, Nothing man made with out flexibility can continually function in our world even an idea. The american dream is no different.
From simple times when all people wanted to succeed in life was a functioning farm and children to care for them when they got older, the american dream evolved with the world to be a decent job for males in the city with a wife at home to take care of the children in the 50's to what it is today where all genders have dreams and careers of varying natures and not all of them want children or even marriage, the american dream facilitates them in succeeding in their paths and making it 'big time'
In the video we can see five different people (aside from the artists) all from different walks of life, almost all from different ethnicity's each perusing their own dreams, all of which are less often pursued careers, its evident all of the people in this video (Artists included probably) are living and/or working on their dream and doing well to overcome the challenges they have or are facing. For example the first challenge they faced was probably their families telling them to 'do something [normal] with your life' (i.e get a normal job in an office and have a family, the traditional dream Alger's dream) as mentioned at the beginning of the song. The song later includes lyrics like 'we don't want two kids and a wife' and 'say goodbye to the white picket fences' which has the through movement from the traditional dream to the modern one(s)
At the end of each chorus the song says 'so tell me whatever happened to the american dream?' talking about the traditional american dream as depicted in Ragged Dick, the idea that anyone can make it in the only way possible (by getting a normal job and then a house (or a room in Dicks case)and eventually I'm sure Dick would have found a wife and had children then been living the true american dream however we only see him when he is young and thus no marriage takes place in the book.)
the answer to this question of what happened to Alger's American dream truly is 'it evolved' and that is the beauty of the American dream and what the song depicts hence this is why I think it is such an excellent example of the american dream in the modern day.