Happy Valentine's Day. And to quote
the sorely missed Craig Ferguson, with a shrug of my shoulders,
“That's all I've got”.
Well, at least that's all I've got as
far as Valentine's Day goes. But I played a song yesterday and, for
some reason, my brain went into overdrive. I don't know why; I don't
know how. It just did.,
I had an Instant Request for Bob
Seger's “Hollywood Nights” yesterday. If you're not familiar
with the song, it's about a Midwestern boy who heads out to
California and falls in love with a girl, a girl who dumps him by the
end of the tune. The girl, as described by Seger, is one of those
stereotypical California girls who, as the lyrics put it, had been
born with “a face that would let her get away” with just about
anything.
But that's not what sent my brain into
overtime. Nope; this is what sent my brain into overtime. The song
is 40 years old. The album from which it came, “Stranger in Town”,
was released 4 decades ago in 1978. So, for a second, assume that what took place in
the song really happened. Assume that the girl born with “a face
that would let her get away” was 21 when the song happened. That
would mean that the girl born with “a face that would let her get
away”, the girl that broke the protagonist's heart, would be 61
years old.
The girl born with “a face that would
let her get away” would now, in all likelihood, be a grandmother.
And the guy whose heart she broke? There would probably be kids
calling him “grandpa”.
That's what sent my brain into
overdrive.
No, I don't know why I thought of that.
I mean, I knew in the back of my head that the song was 40 years
old. I haven't heard it in a while, which probably led me to listen
to the lyrics a little closer than I normally would've. And for some
strange reason, stuff just started to add up until I realized that
the two characters in the song are now almost eligible for Social
Security.
I wonder if Bob Seger ever considered
that fact even a remote possibility when he wrote the tune?
Ponder that, I guess, and have yourself
a great Valentine's Day while you're at it. Hopefully, weird stuff
won't send your brain into overdrive throughout the day
8-)
(ps—the interview with Ed Roland of
Collective Soul I mentioned yesterday went swimmingly. Unlike some
rock stars, he didn't take himself or what he does too seriously, and
that's always a bonus. You can hear it on the air this (Wednesday)
afternoon around 335. I'll also put it up on our Soundcloud page after it airs).
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