Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right . . .
Read this article today in Slate . . .
It’s all about how we’ll know when the baby-boomers have been shoved out of media control. We’ll know when we start seeing headlines like “By the Power of Grayskull” or “Fight for Your Right to Party” . . . catch-phrases and lyrics that defined OUR generation, not theirs.
Grrr . . . those baby-boomers and their 60s cultural references!
The thing is, boomer culture is so intertwined with ours I don’t know if there will ever be a clean break . . . we’re not going to reject Beatles music in favor of the Beastie Boys . . .we’re just going to use them both! I’d love to make every headline a pop-culture retro reference, but I can spit out an awful lot of oldies lyrics, and they’re just as likely to come to mind as a Britney Spears song.
The generation gap has shrunk.
It’s all about how we’ll know when the baby-boomers have been shoved out of media control. We’ll know when we start seeing headlines like “By the Power of Grayskull” or “Fight for Your Right to Party” . . . catch-phrases and lyrics that defined OUR generation, not theirs.
Grrr . . . those baby-boomers and their 60s cultural references!
The thing is, boomer culture is so intertwined with ours I don’t know if there will ever be a clean break . . . we’re not going to reject Beatles music in favor of the Beastie Boys . . .we’re just going to use them both! I’d love to make every headline a pop-culture retro reference, but I can spit out an awful lot of oldies lyrics, and they’re just as likely to come to mind as a Britney Spears song.
The generation gap has shrunk.
Labels: Random Ramble
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