anyway, this post wasn't supposed to be a review, but there's a scene in the movie where paul blart (a painfully large kevin james) puts a cassette tape into his boom box and jams. i leaned over to jon and said: i think i had that same stereo. and he said: me too.
it got me thinking: kids these days have no idea. do you remember what it was like to have to search for songs using the rewind and fast forward? and if you held it down halfway, you could hear the teeny mousey music that made it easier to figure out when the song was over? how great was it when you caught the whole song from the radio and were able to add it to your mix tape without the deejay speaking before it was over? and you couldn't hear the latest song by just flipping on your laptop or flicking through your iPhone. you had to get that puppy at the wal-mart or one of those creepy music shops at the hot springs mall. and use the afore-mentioned finding methods to get to the song on the radio, because it was never, ever the first song. there was no best buy or really even target. if you didn't have enough baby-sitting money saved up, you had to buy the single. for me, that meant "blame it on the rain." and the B side had "dance with the devil." which i wasn't allowed to listen to, because no one should EVER think about waltzing with satan.
i'm sure one could make the argument that our brains are freed up by being able to skip around to whatever song we want with a couple of button clicks. that we can accomplish more by being able to save a trip to the store by downloading the latest from iTunes. but i kind of miss the intentional nature of the cassette tape. you had to be committed to find what you wanted. more people could benefit from this, i think.
1 comment:
haha i love it!
You know the song.. The Sign by ace of base. I always say "this song reminds me of driving in race track traffic" b/c that is what the deejay said after that song on my sweet mixed tape.
those were some good ole days though!!!!!!!!
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