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was my equivalent of these older pop culture nostalgia shows in 2009. For context, I was born in 1996. My parents were devout Christians, who solely listened to gospel music. They didn’t pass down any of the music they listened to in the ’70s and ’80s to their children. For a large part of my childhood, they only allowed my siblings and me to borrow pop CDs from the library or listen to it on YouTube, but they never let us own any non-religious music.
If this sounds like torture, it was. I wasn’t totally cut off from the secular world, and my father eventually loosened up once I was in high school. But I always knew I was somewhat behind in my understanding of both contemporary and older music references. Even if you weren’t raised by Protestant overlords like I was, we all need some medium to pass along the culture we weren’t alive or old enough to experience—some form of forced or inadvertent exposure.
The same goes for a number of Journey songs; “Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon;“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones; “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond; “Beth” by Kiss; “Dancing With Myself” by Billy Idol; and a bunch of other white-dude rock songs I feel at once slightly embarrassed and relieved to know.You may consider this useless knowledge—in most cases, it is.
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