I think overprotective parents are okay to an extent. Your parents are just trying to show you they love you, blah blah blah.
But calling you 8 times a day, needing to know where you are, who you are with, when exactly you will be home, and what you plan to do is unnecessary. A lot of us (I think?) are in our mid to late teens. We can handle ourselves. Yeah, the world is a bad place, but part of the process of becoming an adult is figuring that out for yourself, without mommy and daddy to walk you through it every step of the way.
I like Grace Kelly. It used to be my myspace song for a while. All of his stuff is very catchy, and I agree that he is a modern day Freddie Mercury (I've gone identity maaaaaaaaaaaaaad!).
Love Today is okay but it's in a million commercials now.
Bjork, Keane, Switchfoot, Elvis Costello, Thom Yorke, Badly Drawn Boy, This Day and Age, Howie Day, Jason Mraz, Jenny Gear, Nat King Cole, anyone that's easy to listen to, really.