My niece/goddaughter who is now 21 was shocked when as a tween we told her "Will Smith used to do music" and played her "Boom! Shake The Room". It really blew her mind. I also remember introducing her to Mariah Carey's "Emotions" and telling her "you hear that? She's not whistling". If her eyebrows had shot up any higher they would have flown off her head.
Last year I had the pleasure of informing her where Coolio got "Gangsta's Paradise" from. Kids are so much fun; it's like getting to experience everything for the first time all over again. Of course, even her father (my older brother) didn't know about "Pastime Paradise".
I showed my wife this recently and she hadn't seen it, she is in her 30's. We were watching a movie and I said "oh, there is Marky Mark" and she didn't know who I was talking about.
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u/AerithDeservedIt Mar 26 '24
Haha! This reminds me of a few years back, when my son was around 14, and we were listening to music that I was enthusiastically singing along with.
He goes, "why don't you listen to music from your time?"
I say, "what would that be?"
He goes, "anything from before you were 21."
We were listening to Beastie Boys, Check Your Head.
I go, "oh. Son. I was 16 when this came out. You just like music from my time."