Thursday, January 29, 2009

I have been listening to some fabulous 90's tracks lately, and laughing a lot of the time. Give yourself some time teenagers, and a lot of the music that seemed so cutting edge, so timely, and so romantic, will make you laugh when you're 30.
Some insights my fellow 90's children will appreciate:

The only difference between Color Me Badd and Boys II Men is symantics: "I Want to Sex You Up" just doesn't sound the same to girls as "I'll Make Love to You."

Boys II Men probably came together in an effort to make girls believe that having sex with boys was a huge treat for girls. The whole premise of "I'll Make Love to You" is giving a woman sex for her birthday. Cheap bastard probably didn't even buy her flowers. Now that I'm older, I'm pretty sure the gift wasn't for her. "Whatever you want girl you know I will do..." Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's not specific to a birthday.

Is Madonna really reinventing herself, or just finding new gimmicks to sell sex?

Nirvanna was just the next logical step in rock and roll. Music exists to irritate your parents. Frank Sinatra was the Elvis/Beatles/Kurt Cobain of his day. Now he's geriatric music. Some day, our grandchildren will find Limp Bizkit quaint.

Ska: it wasn't cool then, and it isn't cool now.

The macarena was cool for only one reason: even white kids could dance to it.

The fact that one of my boyfriends and I had "Everything I Do, I Do It For You" as our song is just testament to me noe of how ridiculousy overblown 13-year-old love really is. If only there had been a song entitled, "You're Neat and Our Parents Hang Out A Lot"...

Savage Garden is still cool.

4 comments:

Julie said...

Song titles inspired by our friendship:

"I Giggle When You Pee Your Pants"
"Let's Hate Our Kids Together"
"We're Better Than You. Deal With It"
"The Bargain Shopper Medley"
"Husbands Can Be Just A Little Bit Dumb"

Perpetual Mommy Exhaustion said...

I also like:

"No one thinks I'm funnny but you."

"Lean on Me, but Shower First"

"The Crying Rag"

shayne and kimberly said...

best song yet is "I shop at DI" on youtube.. funny how when I was in my teenage years my parents used to shop there and it mortified me.. know it is one of our favorite stores!
hahaha! thought your blog was great!

Brandon said...

"Don't let yourself be hurt this time / Don't let yourself be hurt this time / Then I saw your face / Then I saw your smile / The sky is still blue / The clouds come and go / Yet something is different / Are we falling in love?"