Retro

When I was much younger, my dad would buy ‘best of’ CDs… such as Best of Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, ABBA, Boney M… and I would listen to these CDs and think to myself “these ‘classic’ songs are great”… the word ‘classic’ or ‘retro’ were used to describe those songs… and it was fine then… because I mainly listened to the ‘top 40’ hits on radio and occasionally put on a ‘retro’ CD…

Never did it occur to me that those ‘classics’ were actually ‘top 40’ when my dad was young… all I heard from my dad was how those songs were much better than the ‘garbage’ that I listened to… I just laughed it off, thinking my dad was just out of date…

Now however things have slowly started to change… the music I listened to is now considered ‘retro’… some songs, like Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana is even considered a ‘classic’!!

How the heck did that happen!?

A couple of months back, I was heading back to KL. So the band wouldn’t have a singer during that week’s jamming session… so one of the guys asked his friend to sing for that week… she looked through the song book and had not heard of most of the songs there… there were comments like “I think I’ve heard this song before… but who’s this Pearl Jam?” Obviously, she was much younger than me… what are we teaching in schools that kids don’t know who Pearl Jam is?

Now when they say ‘retro’, their talking about songs from my ‘youth’…

Then it hit me… I’m old… whenever they have a retro themed show on the radio, I find myself saying ‘aahhhhh, I know this song!! Haven’t heard it in a long time!’

Another thing is, I can’t seem to enjoy listening to songs that my nieces and nephews listen to… it’s just ‘garbage’…

OMG, I’m my dad!!! (That’s a scarier thought than the fact that I’m not young anymore).

I guess we can add ‘likes retro songs’ to the list of things that tell you you’re ‘not young anymore’…