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Telex Telexs - คนที่ยังไม่พร้อม (People Who Are Not Ready)
0Going back over 25 years later and listening to Kriss Kross’s “Jump” is painful. “I’m the mack daddy” No, kid, you’re like 12. We can hear that you’re 12. The video is just further confirmation that you are an absolute infant.
I just checked. “Jump” was released in 1992. These kids were born in 1978 and 1979. They were, actually, 13 and 14. I was not far off.
Similarly, I’d never realized just how old “Brass Monkey” is. I’d assumed that the Beastie Boys were of legal drinking age by the time they wrote it. NOPE. They were like 15, because it was recorded the same damn year as “Fight For Your Right To Party.” Watching that video, with a bunch of white, middle-class suburban kids trying to look like they have anything remotely resembling street cred, singing about all the booze they drink, is just…weird.
Look at these whole infants.
At least “Oops! I Did It Again” doesn’t have any of this weird “kids-acting-like-adults” lyrical wackiness, but a large part of that is because Britney Spears was already a legal adult (I wanna say 19?) at the time.
Also, while the choreography and the song are both BALLER, the video itself…just watch it, okay?
And yes, the jewelry the astronaut gives her in this video is, in fact, supposed to be the Heart of the Ocean from the 1997 Titanic movie, for those not old enough to remember. That’s why the “But I thought that old lady dropped it into the ocean at the end.”
I’m guessing there were legal reasons they couldn’t actually name the pendant (or even the movie!) or show it onscreen. But Millennials all knew what Britney was talking about, because every single teenage girl had watched that fucking movie.
I guess what I’m saying is, pop music is weird, and it’s been weird for a long time.
26I wish I could touch you again
I wish I could still call you friend
I’d give anything0
