middle age and music, a meme gakked from Shalmestere

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"Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn suggests the following test to determine when you became middle-aged: scan his list of #1 summer hits, and the first one you can't hum (even a little bit) marks the year in which you became middle-aged. "
Hmm, it appears my loathing of "rap" music caused me to become middle aged in  August 1997: "I'll Be Missing You" -- Puff Daddy & Faith Evans.
Do I get a delay because I knew songs ten years before I was born?

Comments

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Indeed--all points that came up in discussion over in my LJ.

OTOH, it might be a testament to the "stickiness" of mainstream pop culture that although my musical tastes in college ran to Simon and Garfunkel, Pentangle and Malicorne, leavened by the likes of Thompson Twins, Adam Ant and Haircut 100 (one of my friends had an alt/prog rock program on one of the dorm radio stations)--I was still able to hum all the '80s songs on the list :-)