Who can relate to feeling that this song is the perfect tune for this generation!
Question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ur4gUnby...
Answers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ur4gUnby...
The funny thing is (and i don't know how old you might be) that every generation thinks themselves unique, that their problems and questions and the search they may be on is different from those before them. But at 49 i can tell You that we share many of the same struggles, they simply cost more now, are faster and likely delivered electronically rather than in person.
I recall my own parents (and suspect I am old enough to be your mother) saying things like "I just can't believe teenagers these days... blah blah blah". But their parents, I'm sure made a similar statement as have I, and almost for the same reasons. My son at 24 will be saying it soon enough.
It's all relative. In the 20's some kid was swallowing a goldfish as a college stunt or initiation. To their parents, it was incomprehensible, to the kids, just fun and unique, a way to individualize themselves. They were shocked at the content of carnival sideshows and magicians, and I couldn't even tell you what they were listening to on the radio, but it wasn't Marilyn Manson (who they would not even have known to connect with a super starlet and a mass murderer, add a penis and *Walah*).
My parents saw the introduction of weed (yeah, it was certainly around in the 30s and 40s - watch "Reefer Madness" for a good laugh), but more confined to musicians and the "artsy" crowd. They thought Houdini was wild in what he did to impress and sang along with Buddy Holly just before I was born.
I met up with designer drugs, Evil Kneeval and Eric Clapton.
My son... hmmm. He enjoys the "Shock Magic" of Cris Angel (needles through the arm and such), listens to Niclelback and I'm slightly afraid to even explore what might mean "fun" to him.
The point being I find it a good thing we don't live for hundreds of years, as the changes would kill us (laughing). My grandparents never would have understood my son. I mean if they found my music to be just "noise", what would they think of his?
Each generation defines themselves, that is for certain, but only, I think to be separate from the one before. Human problems really don't change as we still need much of the same basic things. The means by wish we achieve them certainly change but hunger, shelter and love will never be dated or go out of style and some will always have more than others. The man who beats his wife today is almost the same man who beat his wife in my grandmother's day. Only the setting has changed. Women can vote, are beginning to feel more than the 2nd class citizen, but still suffer, bleed and laugh. We are finally recognizing that men also have problems in defining their role, and the environment continues to go downhill, but it's not a new problem. We have overcome small pox but now have Aids. Go figure.
Oh, one thing seems to remain... Elvis is still hanging out...
gentle thoughts and giggles,
and you certainly are a curious and thinking man,
whatever your generation.
Total cr@p.
Perfect for a generation, a really good song will be dateless, it will still be good 20 years on if its of any worth.