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Everybody cut loose...
Doesn't karma have a funky sense of humor?
L: Mom, come listen to this! Don't you love this new song?
M: (listening) Um...yeah. That's "I Need a Hero."
L: How do you already know that?
M: It's been around for about...(scared, choking expression)...23 years.
Apparently the generations have aligned so that L has discovered the music of Footloose at almost exactly the same age I did.
(Note: I tortured my poor family with the Footloose soundtrack. I brought it on our family vacation to Mexico and they humored me, allowing me to play it on repeat the whole way down. And back. I think there might have been some singing along at full voice.)
The Lion King was wrong: the "circle of life" isn't just about how we take up the mantle left to us by our previous generations. It's how our children haunt us with the musical tastes of our youth, remaking and remixing and scoring commercials (The Cure's 'Pictures of You' for Kodak? B52's Rock Lobster for Kmart? Psychedelic Furs' Pretty in Pink for Cingular?) with our treasured classics until they recode their meaning to us. But my generation did it to our parents, our kids do it to us, the process keeps unwinding. In the circle...(everybody sing along)...the circle of life.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Reader Comments (2)
No way is that song 23 years old...that was what I listened to when I laid out in the sun with baby oil, probably getting skin cancer. I guess it means we're getting old if our music has already made it full circle...yikes. Not ready for that yet!
That's the thing I remember the most about that trip to Mexico: Footloose. I seem to remember another vacation that featured Pretty in Pink pretty prominently (and very pinkly!).