Popular music? What’s that?
Last night Katie asked me if I knew that song “I kissed a girl.”
“Of course I know it,” I said. “Well,” she responded, “you don’t exactly listen to ‘popular’ radio.”
“But that song has been around forever …” I retorted.
Apparently I was wrong. That was another song about kissing a girl. And I have never heard this particular (apparently bad) song. I hope I can keep my streak.
It’s true that I never listen to so-called “popular” music unless I have to. To me, popularity doesn’t have anything to do with good. Take the Macarena, for instance. I was on vacation when that song came out in 1997. When I first heard it, it was already popular. I thought it was a joke. I really did.
Give me emusic, pandora, and last.fm any day of the week over top 40, or whatever it’s called these days. I will pass.
October 1st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
For a while, I was wondering why everyone was talking about Jill Sobule’s old song as well.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
i remember you introducing me to steve miller band (and lots of others) while we were in high school. i feel silly knowing that i had never heard of them at that time!
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I am SOOOO glad that there are TWO other people who thought the same thing when they read her blog! They don’t play the *new* “I Kissed a Girl” all that often on NPR, so. . .