First Vernie calls me out with that whole 'Back That Ass Up' comment, and then I get home Friday and Finance and I get into a bottle of wine and this whole 'Music of Today' debate.
Wanna guess which side of the fence he had both feet planted firmly on? He went on to tell me how much shit I was full of, and he was right. He reminded me song after song from our generation of lyrics full of messages our own parents would have had us committed over, had they paid much attention to them. He reminded me that neither of us turned out so bad, and while we may not have ever contemplated things like...oh say suicide or homicide, we bashed our heads along with Metallica and Pantera. Same shit, different day.
And he's right. And I digress. Because you're right Chase, there was something thrilling and daring about yelling out in the 'underage' club at 14 years old 'I WANNA FUCK YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL' with Trent Reznor...but the truth is I wouldn't lose my virginity until I was 20 years old. And I mumbled lyrics out with Junior Mafia and Notorious BIG in college with the best of them. Hillary can attest. So does it really MEAN anything that the teenage boys are singing with Juicy J about 'keepin the pussy wet'? Hmm. Probably not.
I think what I find most interesting about this discussion, and my own revelation about music content, is that oftentimes we latch on to certain songs, merely because they are catchy. Because I'll tell you what, I was jogging the other day and listening to one of my FAVORITE Tribe Called Quest albums, and Electric Relaxation is playing and I'm jammin, whats up, and I'm all up in my grove and all the sudden....WTF QTIP? Did I just hear you say something about PUTANG??? Rewind:
'Now I wanna pound the putang until it stinks'
Oh no he did-nt! And my heartbroke. I felt like I had just walked in on my perfect, sweet, would never loook at porn (would he?), Finance...looking at porn! Oh the horror!
Q-tip just said PUTANG. AND he wants to POUND IT UNTIL IT STINKS??? Umm, EWWWWWWWW! This is what I have been jammin to all these years???
My heart palpitated just a little bit. And then I realized that I really am full of shit. So all you Three 6 Mafia lovers, I apologize. Some say To-may-toe, some say toe-ma-to. Some say Puss-ee, some say Poo-tang.
I think what this all boils down to, is, the simple fact that I AM GETTING OLD AND CONSERVATIVE.
WTF?
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