This paper discusses the transition and everyday life in the lyrics of the Croatian punk rock band Hladno pivo. The paper initially focuses on popular culture, popular music and its place in academic analysis, and the place of popular culture at the university. After that, transition and everyday life and literature are thematized, giving the analysis a theoretical, methodological, and contextual framework. The second part of the paper approaches the analysis of the texts of Hladno pivo as musical poetry, bringing it in connection with the poetry of the 90. The lyrics of the Hladno pivo songs are grouped according to thematic-motive determinants and are divided into several groups: politics and transition, capitalism and consumerism, the society of the spectacle, love in transitional everyday life, gender relations, and identity. The songs faithfully depict the society in which we live, abound in criticism, achieve a sense of identification, and have an emancipatory character. In condensed form, the songs show the encounter of large social systems with the individual destiny of an individual on a small scale. This paper is an attempt to contribute to the greater breakthrough of popular culture at universities and research of all aspects and domains of human life.