When I was a kid, the old people (my parents) liked music from the 1930s and 40s . Big bands, crooners, vocal trios... How very ancient.
As a song from my college years played over Muzak today I realized all that stuff from my teens and twenties is as far in the dusty past to young people today as my parents' music was to me. These days the Rolling Stones playing the Super Bowl halftime show might as well have been Frank Sinatra.
That's not news. I know the past recedes just as quickly as the present disappears (where the hell did June go?) and the future rushes toward us (another damn birthday again?). But that reality hadn't smacked me up side the head the way it did today.
What I like to believe separates me and my old music from my parents and their old music is that I like some current music too.
Smacked me a long time ago when I pictured a future of nursing home patients doing wheelchair wheelies to Stones music.
Not having children it has been easier for you to ignore. It's an advantage you have.
As i tell my 37 year old son, "its not enough I lie about my age now YOU have to,too, as 37+ 12 is still old. Ha. People dont believe i had him when i was 8.
Posted by: Sally | 09 July 2009 at 12:11